HENRY GROSS - HE'S ROCKIN'

Even before I had a chance to speak with Henry Gross ... my administrative assistant Chris Daniel had already the pleasure, and warned me: "Mason, you better be ready, because he is something else but, I think you're going to really have a good time ... because he definitely has a sense of humor."

Chris was not off base at all! When Henry picked up the phone, and before I knew it ... it was already three and a half hours later.

In a parallel universe it was almost as if I were sitting with Henry talking about the time we were at Woodstock and standing less than twenty feet from Joe Cocker, who was singing "With a Little Help from My Friends" when it started raining, and Joe was barely able to get through that final song of his set, before that momentous thunderstorm disrupted the concert for several hours ... creating all of that glorious mud.

In talking with Henry Gross, I had a chance to hang out with Jimi Hendrix and experience Paul Butterfield and the Blues Band and a few of the other great rock and rollers of Woodstock including the Who, Creedance, Jefferson Starship, Blood Sweat & Tears, The Band, Country Joe & the Fish, Janice Joplin, Santana, Canned Heat, The Grateful Dead and hear Henry do his rendition of Arlo Guthrie's famous line, 'through his improbably nasally voice,' 'The New York State Thruway is Closed Maaann."

If the conversation would have lasted any longer than the three and a half hours, I am pretty sure I would have been convinced that; I had been there. If I had known Henry Gross for as long as he's been rockin' and rollin' ... or for nearly as long as he'd been jammin' with the rock legends not only from Woodstock but running through history in those circles ... it makes me wonder ... where would I be now?

Well, I don't really have to wonder ... at least in this Universe, knowing that: I am 'Right Here ... Right Now' and now my path has crossed with Henry Gross giving me a chance to share in the greatest moments of music from the past: and now the future with Henry's new stuff on the upcoming music special with America's Coast to Coast.

Here is something else that I have gleaned from my conversation with Henry. He shares the same passions that has been coursing through his bloodstream for the fifty seven years that he has been on this planet ... and I'm just now catching up.

As one of the founding members of Sha Na Na and his musical talents as a song writer and melody maker, I am certain that people who will tune into America's Coast to Coast on JST KLSX and http://www.rockandrollheaven.net/ and hear a vibrant and passionate entertainer who still has a lot to give and LIVE for in this LIFE. Listeners will hear a man who has a zeal for words and music and a LOVE for the people who inhabit the planet. Henry inspires and it seems to be a bit contagious.

Please be listening for the upcoming Henry Gross special ... it will take you back and move you forward in time, and time again.

As we keep progressing to 'Make it Happen' it is an honor to speak with artists who are the caliber of Henry Gross ... who are as 'Down to Earth' as they come, and that will cause them to be placed forever in the stars.

SOMETHING IS HAPPENING!

I hate to say it, outside of sounding like Martin Luther King, Jr., but "I have a dream!"

Noooooo! As if anyone who hasn't been following our progress and hasn't realized I've been dreaming the dream for more than a couple of years, and painstakingly ... if not agonizingly whining about the web site, then let me remind you ... the web site is a key and important factor in the development of America's Coast to Coast.

And so with that, we have finally been able to muster at least a better attempt in revamping the original web site, that 'I threw up' there ... more than two years ago. What you will be seeing in the very near future, possibly a week ... is a basic design that will turn the corner for http://www.RockandRollHeaven.net as I continue with the rapid eye movement.

For some reason it always seemed to back fire when I have been moving to make any headway, especially while explaining the importance to others, of even the smallest of elements, not only with the web site, but with the overall concept of presenting a radio station for a new generation of listeners, while holding fast and true to the 'Baby Boomers' who I now refer to as ... "The Baby Booker's."

Wall Street and Madison Avenue are of the mind that 'Baby Boomers' are already too set in their 'Own Minds' to be swayed in the advertising marketplace ... and therefore are a not worthy of spending money on any advertising venues ... thus creating the fading, soon to be Lost Generation, if we don't do something ... now.

This is what we've been moving toward. The 'Baby Boomers' are the new 'Baby Booker's,' who are traveling to vacation destinations, renting cars, staying in hotels, eating at restaurants, gambling at casinos, buying bobbles for friends, family and grandchildren. With the most expendable income in the future, it makes this ... the 'Baby Booker's' of the e-generation a solid bet.

As slow as it has been, keep watching for the increasing developments of this web site that will be providing, not only the greatest music of our lives, but will eventually allow a younger generation to catch up to those 'Baby Booker's' who are turning that younger generation onto that past generation of Good Times and Great Music ... when it was a whole lot more fun to be alive.

As I am still living and breathing ... I know that I am not ready to lie down and let others dictate to me what looks good, feels good, smells good, taste good and definitely what sounds good ... when I have been doing all of those things for the past fifty years.

It's going to be good ... I have a greater feeling of ... "FINALLY ... something is happening!"