How much can one fan of OKOM (Our Kind Of Music) accomplish in just a couple of years?
Plenty, if it's Rockzilla, aka photographer Michael Johnson.
From 2003 to 2005, rockzilla.net was a chronicle of the alt.country scene from a uniquely Texan perspective.
But all good things must end, and Rockzilla has retired from the online 'zine scene.
This mirror site was copied from the rockzilla.net site with the express permission of
Rockzilla hisself. If you don't believe me, go to the
KHYI-Fans email list and ask him! Buddy will back me up, too.
(Preiously published as the opening track on the
Bloodshot Records compilation CD Nashville, The Other Side
of the Alley: Insurgent Country Vol. #3. Reprinted here by
permission.)
i walked off-stage
with ol' Hank
and i never did look back
the lights are bright
applause is loud
but proud ain't right
necessarily
and sometimes the guts
of the moment get
all twisted
and you've got to give more
expecting less
and if it ain't on record
or tape or film
does that mean it never happened
if someone important you know
don't stamp it his seal say
yeah
that cat was pretty hot
naw i walked off-stage
with ol' hank that night
so drunk i could have stumbled
but didn't and wouldn't
and surprising them all every turn
more'n they ever could or did me
kept step keeping it hard beat
lowdown right there
kicking up howling how
making it made sense more'n
anything this moment
really might have meant
and no i ain't saying
demons are gospel
but none of us are
sour-ass sonuvabitches
can kiss mine he laughed
then took aim shot out
the spotlight