Sunday morning dawns, time enough for reflection.  We were guests at a concert last night at the Royal Fox Country Club.  Arcada Productions presented the music of Styx and Boston: Boston and Styx at the Fox.  Musicians included members of Dennis DeYoung Band and Tommy Decarlo lead singer for Boston.

I struggle to find words to describe the transcendence which music creates within us.  I am confident those rare moments of spiritual unity are human, start to finish, reminding us of how special it is to be human, the times of sorrow and the times of indescribable happiness…

After the concert concluded circumstances permitted a brief exchange of words with two of the musicians.  I asked: “Do you ever get tired of doing what you do?”  The bass guitarist, a female, answered simply: “Never!”

I think that Rock music is religious, without the religion.  What I mean to say, that music celebrates our lives, it is the story of your life and of my life.  The music is secular, a reflection of this life, arising from this world.  It is joint participation, a supreme, an intense affirmation of joy between performers, and the individual recipients, — joined by wild, exuberant ecstasy of melody and lyric…

The quotation from Nietzsche serves as reminder: What we need is an antidote to religion.

The antidote is Rock N Roll !

…what the common people take for wisdom
–this clever, bovine piety,
peace of mind, and meekness
of country pastors
that lies in the meadow
and observes life seriously
while ruminating—

–excerpt The Gay Science, Book 5, Section 351 by Friedrich Nietzsche

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A Man I’ll Never Be by Boston…