Rick Derringer "Knighted by the Blues!"

I realize that Rock and Roll has been changing as most of you have already heard me preaching on many occasions. So I will keep it short in JST KLSX form and say it like this; Thank you Rick Derringer for sending us the single on your new album "Knighted by the Blues!" that is set for release in late April.

As Rick Derringer already knows, and what listeners who are turning to the freedom of Internet Radio programmers are finding out ... is that; even the most talented artist with the most extraordinary abilities are finding it really hard to get some 'Air Play' on radio stations across the country.

With the comments I've received from playing the NEW Henry Gross material ... they are virtually the same type of comments I have been receiving from a throng of new listeners who are already familiar with Rick's new single 'Sometimes' and those comments are; 'This Music Sounds like the Rockin' tunes in the old days of radio!"

This is the truest of statements from the works of not only Henry Gross, but from Rick Derringer - and I already know: there are so many other Rock and Roller's who still have the WANT and DESIRE in CREATING some of the "Jamminest" TUNES that ... can make up for the incompetence of Radio Programmers and slothful Record Executives who are NOT giving IT their ALL, when it comes to resting on THEIR LAZY laurels and not pushing the 'GOOD STUFF!'

While talking with people in various trades and watching the world as it goes spinning by, it does have a simple solution: Get some real programmers willing to take a risk in playing some new material and blending it with the feel good stuff from the past. It can be done ... I know it, and I feel it. It's ONE of the very reasons that I keep preaching - and hoping that we can expand our audience, not only through the Internet, but back into 'Mainstream Radio and the Entertainment Industry.'

The WORLD is beginning to know we're here ... and now so do people like Rick Derringer, Henry Gross, Wayne Fontana, The Buckinghams, Bobby Hart, Barry Whitwam & Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits), Clarence Collins (Little Anthony & the Imperials), Vance Brescia, Rich Spina and others who are just as important to today's music scene as they were yesterday.

I for one, am still very excited in being 'On the Radio,' and have the same DESIRE and PASSION in being able to "Gift" the music to a 'Wanting Audience' but know that we still have a long way to go. And I do feel like people like Henry Gross have given me a gift, as much as Rick Derringer allowing me to at least preview "Sometimes' for http://www.rockandrollheaven.net/ and it does make for 'The Old Days of Radio' coming around again.

For those of you, who are just now becoming familiar with us ... you may not realize we have been here for the last couple of years ... doing shows mainly on the weekends, Saturday Night at the Oldies and Juke Box Sunday Night, and feel as if we are making the strides that we've been planning on, and seeing them come to fruition, especially when we talk with very talented musicians like Rick Derringer.

If you've missed our other interviews ... they will be on JST KLSX again, when we get a bit more sophisticated in our Web Site, and people can download or listen to them at their convenience.

I am planning on the upcoming special with Wayne Fontana and Rick Derringer, not to mention (Too Late) Felix Cavaliere. I just pray for your patience while we move forward in a World intent on keeping you tuned into the same "EIGHT GREAT OLDIES!" We're fighting them for you ... so please keep us in mind ... while we keep working on getting it done.