Rock and Roll Moment

I watched most of Peter Bogdanovich's Rockument on Tom Petty the other night on Sundance. Good stuff, but 4 hours????? Yikes that's a lot of TP from FLA! The early Heartbreakers footage was very very cool. Tom had that guitar slung low and a whole lotta snarl.. yeah buddy thats rock and fucking roll right there. For some reason that scene made me think that all bands have kind of a peak moment.. a moment when they are at the height of their powers..they may not know it at the time, but in retrospect it becomes clear. ( I suppose that's true of our life's as well.)

One that leaped to mind was seeing my old pals the Romantics warming up for the National Breakout tour. I remember a show at the old Traxx on Gratiot ... an East side dive if ever there was one.. I recall leaning against the side wall in MY leathers from Irene ( 28 inch waist pants, even my kid can't fit in em these days!) .. when Coz Canler laid into Little Latin Lupe Lu on the lead. pink leather shiny, Marshall stack cranked, Wally looking like a man on a mission, and Jimmy M pounding the shit out of them skins. The fucking joint rocked. For that minute, for that one night, they were the best band in the world.

I understand that the Jews used to say on a couples wedding day that "today you are the King or Queen of Israel".. Maybe it's the same principal at work..and I've always thought it a privilege to be present at such affairs.