Once upon a time....nevermind, this is not a fairytale!
I have loved all kinds of music since I can remember. One of my first recollections is me as a toddler listening to the Beatles "Yellow Submarine" booming out of my dad's stereo speakers. One of my first albums was Led Zeppelin II gifted to me from my brother. On a fateful day back in the early eighties, I was watching MTV when a video came on with a band from Australia called
INXS (inks? LOL!). The video was for their song 'The One Thing' and well, it was the beginning of a lifelong fanship for me. When their lead singer Michael Hutchence died in 1997, it was a sad day for millions of INXS fans.
I kind of floated musically for the rest of the 90's and into the new century. So much music playing out there was radio worthy but not enough to get me out there to see a concert or become a real interested fan.
Fast forward to July 2005...I had vaguely heard about INXS doing a reality show but wasn't keen on the idea of them replacing their singer via the television media. Fate once again steps in as I was channel surfing and I happened to tune into the first episode of Rockstar: INXS. Well, if you know me then you know what happened after that..LOL!
Fast forward to late June 2006...I was feeling the withdrawals a few days after my last INXS concert and perusing around rockband.com. I chatted with the other INXS fans on the site on our feelings about another Rockstar show. I still wasn't interested myself since I am not much for the reality TV thing and why would I care about Tommy Lee, Jason, or Gilby? forming a band..meh!
Click, click, click...look here are the 'rockers' for the new season. Dilana, she looks like a rocker...Ryan, oops can't get to the link for his music, oh well...Lukas, ugh, hasn't punk gone out of style years ago.
I decided to click the link I had found to this song called 'Riddled'. I couldn't get the video to play but was able to listen to the song. Well, it was love at first listen. Something in his voice touched me inside in a way that's hard to explain...kind of like when I listen to Placido Domingo sing 'Vesti la giubba' from
Pagliacci (I love Placido too...I am not ashamed!)
Okay,this is really getting long! Snip, snip to the editing room floor...let's just say the more of Lukas' music I heard, the more my appreciation for him as an artist became and the more I wanted to see good things happen for this musician..like winning this reality show and becoming the lead singer of Rockstar:Supernova!
I think I'll wait to continue my story in another post..on to the matter at hand!
