Chris McTrustry
Confessions of a Teenage Axeman
eBook
( Aug. 29, 2018)
axeman n. 1. one skilled at felling and cutting timber, sometimes in competition. 2. Mega-ace guitarist; musician extraordinaire (e.g. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin), The axeman was the star of the concert
15-year-old Brad Radley is dragged from his home in the city – his friends, his girl, his band, his beach – to a rural hell hole so his dad can follow his dream of ‘interacting with alien life forms’.
Little green men? Really? Really?
But Brad’s dream come true when rock and roll legend, Davey Hathaway asks him to play guitar in his comeback concert at a small country pub in the small country town where Brad and his parents have moved to. Except there's no way on Earth Brad's parents will let him play the gig.
All of that changes when Brad becomes foot-loose and parent-free for the foreseeable future when, yes, aliens answer his Dad’s invitation to ‘drop in anytime.’
Brad is free to play the gig, but he also has to deal with girlfriends (unexpected!), the school bully and two interplanetary visitors who have no understanding of earthling teenagers or the customs of ‘hanging out’ and ‘chasing chicks’.
It’s a steep and sometimes painful learning curve for Brad - and his alien minders - but he manages to sort out his love life, his standing in the school community and get to play the gig, all before his parents come back from . . . deepest darkest space.
That's rock and roll!
15-year-old Brad Radley is dragged from his home in the city – his friends, his girl, his band, his beach – to a rural hell hole so his dad can follow his dream of ‘interacting with alien life forms’.
Little green men? Really? Really?
But Brad’s dream come true when rock and roll legend, Davey Hathaway asks him to play guitar in his comeback concert at a small country pub in the small country town where Brad and his parents have moved to. Except there's no way on Earth Brad's parents will let him play the gig.
All of that changes when Brad becomes foot-loose and parent-free for the foreseeable future when, yes, aliens answer his Dad’s invitation to ‘drop in anytime.’
Brad is free to play the gig, but he also has to deal with girlfriends (unexpected!), the school bully and two interplanetary visitors who have no understanding of earthling teenagers or the customs of ‘hanging out’ and ‘chasing chicks’.
It’s a steep and sometimes painful learning curve for Brad - and his alien minders - but he manages to sort out his love life, his standing in the school community and get to play the gig, all before his parents come back from . . . deepest darkest space.
That's rock and roll!
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