So...here we are on October 1st. I assume you're here for that E-Ticket ride that is 31 straight days of glorious guitar riffs, driving drum beats, and vicious vocals known around the world as Rock-tober. Buckle up, boys and girls, and keep your hands and feet inside the car at all times because this ride is being kicked off by AC/DC.
But first...a digression. Recently, there's been a spate of birthdays among my high school classmates, and some have professed difficulties grappling with being on the back side of 40. I for one refuse to believe it's now a slow incessant march to that final curtain call. Who says our glory days are in the rear view mirror, that we're too far downstream to make a difference? Whoever it is better shut their yap before my size 12's become acquainted with their backside. History is chock full of folks who hit their stride later in life. That roll call includes the likes of Colonel Harlan Sanders to Thomas Edison, the undefeated Rocky Marciano to the automotive genius Ferdinand Porsche. Winston Churchill didn't step into Chamberlain's shoes until he was 65. Ghandi still held the world stage into his 70's. Jack Cover was 50 when he founded a company based on a non lethal weapon - the taser. Still not badass enough for you? Consider this, Leonidas I, King of Sparta, was 60 years old when he and his boys rocked the world and changed the course of history at a little place called Thermopylae. Any chance we can still change the world like that? Why the hell not?
Need a little more motivation? Well then, crank up the volume and let let this song be the temporary soundtrack to your life. "Rock 'n' Roll Train" comes off AC/DC's album, Black Ice, released in 2008. Yup. That's right. 2008. That's 33 years after their first album and 42 years after they started rocking the world in their own way. I don't know about you, but I find it very comforting to have one of the Old Guard of Rock and Roll still releasing new material in the new millennium. Stay tuned folks, our glory days are still in front of us.
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