@jasonveigl949

8 months ago

I got to watch him with my 68 year old mother at Rock the South in Cullman Alabama aka my hometown. I got to sing her every song word for word and it was an amazing experience for my mother who is in Stage 3 kidney failure. I started drumming when I turned 40 years old. I was in a band in 3 months time and we almost signed with Sony music when I hit 11 months on the drums. On my birthday around that time my mother made the drive to Shreveport Louisiana where I use to live to watch me drum with my band at the time "The LA1 Band". Our lead singer and guitarist left the band but my mother had the time of her life. See my dad was not a good man so my mom hardly ever smiled in life. I remember being a kid maybe 8 years old and playing a concert for my mother in the front yard in Cullman. My brother and I put her a chair out there and we had practiced all day and recorded songs off the radio with this little jambox we had to play book stories. But the book stories had a record side, so we would record the radio station from another jambox we had and replay it on this thing or aka the other jambox and sometimes dads big stereo with the glass we dare not put fingerprints on and the same system that spit out Elvis tunes every Saturday on vinyl. Ya we put mom a chair out front, got us two buckets and some racetrack car track. We used the racetrack car track to make guitars, fake of course, and stood on buckets with flashlights pointed at us by two of the neighbor kids aka our stagehands, and played to the music coming out of that jambox. Mom smiled really big that day. And at Zac Bryans concert in Cullman as I sang every word of ever song and played my drumsticks on the ground sitting with my mother smiling ear to ear. That is a moment I will never forget. Love you Mom. Music is life, it saved mine. The Crazy Drummer.

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