Where. To. Start.

This compulsion has been driving me for years with building intensity. Maybe all the way back to ABBA and Alice Cooper I didn’t have much to work with. I’m just glad “Dancing Queen” didn’t stick and that I didn’t wind up with “Party Monster” based on my catastrophic debauchery. No, instead I stumbled through Kool & the Gang, O N J and E L O. I swear it was completely innocent and naive. There’s nothing pure and virtuous about how my family nurtured me in Queen and the Doobie Brothers. Well, I don’t hold my mom accountable for the Carpenters and Johnny Mathis. Continue reading →