The I Formation

It feels good 

to open the valves

on the AC-30 

in the stripper's basement

where four knives are mic-ed

and cut sheet metal circles

out of the ride cymbal ripple.

We've got twenty five years

of quarter inch Belden cable.

We have thousands of minutes

of meetings 

with Les Paul 

and his Celestion Greenback Speakers

logged in the books.

We've got Nixon nailing a split,

electroshock hospital jingles,

The Golden Age of Larry King,

Fender precision,

Herschel Walker's multiple personality disorder,

I-Formation,  fullback offset weak side

and sixteen tracks.

Down in the basement 

out of your earshot

playing loud rock and roll

and rock and roll and rock and roll

over

is a knockout baby.

It took years

to find the craft in our hands

and the ring in our heads

to know a good thing right.

Sorry people,

this next one is just for the band

and this next one,

and this next one,

and this next one.