Teetering on the middle ground of sanity and lunacy, hovering on the fringes of fact and fiction, pressed into the dusk before sheer darkness or weaved into the dim light after pitch night and unable to determine dreams from reality, there is another world.
Residing in the realms of science and superstation hoping to acquire a round trip ticket to rock ‘n’ roll Valhalla, a musical paradise where deceased icons live forever and dominate the senses with phenomenal music. I'm referring to an oasis where musical gods gather together and form the most extraordinary band ever.
For starters this band has John Lennon, Frank Zappa, George Harrison, Freddie Mercury, Buddy Holly and Stevie Ray Vaughan writing for it. Everyone just mentioned also sings and plays various instruments including keyboards and guitar. With Lennon, hard hitting lyrics about the corruption of politics and religion are covered, Zappa provides the same with his words with an added mixture of pleasant madness and humor only he can provide. Mercury also brings a zesty lyrical punch, while hitting the critical high notes needed in certain songs. Harrison is the melodically driven vocalist who can sing leads or harmonize with the best of singers. Holly provides the dancing element to any song while Vaughan rides the wave of gratifying guitar notes.
If none of the above musicians neither writes a single word, note, plays an instrument, nor sings, there’s always Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Jim Morrison or Roy Orbison to produce a worthy song or two.
For hard hitting rock ‘n’ roll, there is Ronnie Montrose, Bon Scott, John Bonham, John Entwistle, Tommy Bolin, Randy Rhoads and Keith Moon. Bolin and Montrose have the voices to sing loud and heavy while also jamming on the guitar. Rhoads fuels the metal mayhem needed in various songs. Entwistle can basically (bassically) play to any instrument such as Bonham and Moon's erratic, yet structured chromatic drum beats.
The countless other blues greats from the 20s-90s, such as Sippie Wallace who birthed rock ‘n’ roll music and influenced the great musicians who departed Earth too early will also be writing and performing fantastic music in rock ‘n' roll Elysium.
