Well, maybe it wouldn't be accurate to say this song changed my life.

But it was one of those songs that slipped into my consciousness and wouldn't let go.  A rock song that kept coming back to me, after I'd heard it for the first time.  Lyrics, too.  First, just a few lines.  Then more, as I kept listening and figured out more of the words.  It reminded me of the way it was when I was young.  You remember the way a particular rock song could generate a climate change in your soul?  It was inside you and outside you, all at the same time.  Odds are the voice would be a man's--so it had another dimension if you were a young girl listening, being transported into another realm by the voice of someone so clearly not-you.  You and not-you. But the voice carried you outside yourself--and deeper inside.

Rock music from my younger days still has the power to do this, of course.  Newer rock music (meaning: from the 80's on :-)  not so much.   I don't listen to it enough to understand it, I guess.  

But I did listen to this one song recently, called "Reputation Maker."   It stayed with me.  It was catchy--and somehow poignant, too.  I found myself humming it at odd moments.  Singing a line or two.

 It's by an up-and-coming indie rock band in NYC called "Attack Release."   The lead guitarist and vocalist is my older son Alec Tabak.  I'd never heard him sing before now.  Such a powerful experience, uncanny, to listen to him and watch the video.   A part of me--and completely separate, all at the same time.  Me and not-me, just like it always was, listening to rock music, when I was young.

www.attackrelease.com  

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