THE RADD COMMERCIAL,  ROCKERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING  PART 1        

This has nothing to do with RADD and the way they are running their organization they are probably responsible for saving many lives and the reason a lot of us are still here today

ANOTHER LESSON IN LIFE AND ADVICE TO FUTURE ROCKERS .

LIFE IS FUNNY AND WORKS OUT USUALLY FOR THE BEST FOR MOST OF US. THOUGH OUR REAL DREAMS DON'T COME TRUE,  AT LEAST WE HAVE THAT 9 TO 5 AND ARE SURVIVING AND HAVE FAMILY  ,

BUT IT'S THOSE DREAMS AND CONQUESTS WE HAD AND STRUGGLED TO CREATE IN OUR YOUTH   WHEN WE HAD THE TIME AND ENERGY AND WERE READY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD, THAT GIVE US THE BEST MEMORIES OF WHEN WE GAVE IT OUR ALL.   EVEN THOUGH FAILING  WE DID NOT FAIL. WE EITHER DIDN'T HAVE WHAT IT TAKES ,WEREN'T IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME , OR WERE AHEAD OF OUR TIME. THAT ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE THE PROBLEM FOR ME. I ALWAYS LOOKED WHERE I WAS GOING AND TOWARDS THE FUTURE AND WAS MAKING CLOTHS AND MUSIC THAT WERE ODD.   BUT THAT WAS WHO I WAS AND AM ....WHO WE ALL ARE.   THAT'S THE GROWING PROCESS.  THE CREATIVE PROCESS  FROM WHICH WE ALL GET THOSE GREAT IDEAS,   OF WHICH  I HAVE SO MANY. UP UNTIL NOW THEY,  FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER,   HAVE GONE BACK INTO MY CLOSET. BUT THEN THE OTHER DAY I WAS LISTENING TO THE RADIO WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN I HEAR A SNIPPET OF "RIDERS ON THE STORM, THERE'S A KILLER ON THE ROAD..." ,AND THEN RAY MANZAREK COMES ON WITH THIS DRUNK DRIVING LINE , AND DID HIS PART .  A SMILE CAME TO MY FACE. WHY? BECAUSE I  CREATED THAT CONCEPT (THAT COMMERCIAL)  15 YEARS AGO ! WHEN I GOT HOME,  I WENT INTO MY ATTIC AND FOUND ALL THE  LETTERS I WROTE.  I RECALL HOW HAPPY I WAS TO USE A SONG  WRITTEN BY ONE OF MY IDOLS  FOR A POSITIVE MESSAGE THAT WOULD STOP PEOPLE FROM GETTING KILLED BY DRUNK DRIVING.   NOT GETTING KILLED  WAS  A BIG THING TO ME.    I VALUE LIFE,  EVERYONE'S,  AND AS THEY SAY IT "IF YOU CAN SAVE ONE LIFE IT'S WORTH IT." I KNEW THIS IDEA COULD SAVE MANY LIVES.  JUST THE FACT THAT IT WAS A ROCK ICON  WHO HAD A DRINKING PROBLEM - HOW IRONIC IT WOULD BE THAT THIS WOULD BE THE GREATEST COMMERCIAL TO COME OUT AT THE TIME, WHEN EVERYONE ELSE WAS SELLING OUT TO BEER COMPANIES  ETC. BECAUSE THE TIME WAS PERFECT.   MADD HAD JUST BEEN FORMED AND TOO MANY YOUNG KIDS WERE DYING.   I SAW IT.   I LIVED IT.  THIS WAS THE RIGHT PLACE AND THE RIGHT TIME.   I WROTE A LETTER TO THE THEN MAYOR, MARIO CUOMO, WHO WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE COMMERCIAL.  HIS OFFICE SET ME UP WITH A MEETING AT THE TWIN TOWERS WITH THE TRAFFIC SAFETY BOARD  WHO ALSO WERE VERY IMPRESSED WITH MY IDEA AND SAID THEY WOULD HELP ME IN ANY WAY THEY COULD TO GET IT AIRED,  BUT FIRST I HAD TO CLEAR IT WITH THE DOORS AND THE DOORS'  MUSIC COMPANY.  I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASY SINCE THE RESPONSE I HAD RECEIVED WITH THE DMV WAS SO POSITIVE. I REALIZED THE STRONG  EFFECT THIS COULD HAVE ON AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF YOUTH WHO WERE LISTENING  TO THE DOORS AND JIM MORRISON  AND HAD MADE HIM THE IDOL HE IS TODAY, SO I WROTE TO THE DOORS MUSIC COMPANY AS THEY WERE KNOWN BACK THEN AND HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH JERRY SWARTZ, WHO HAD A  MEETING WITH THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THE DOORS AND THOUGH THEY LIKED MY IDEA, THEY COULD NOT DO IT.   THE REASON THEY STATED WAS THAT  THEY DID NOT WANT TO COMMERCIALIZE THE SONG THAT WAY AND THAT THEY HAD SIGNED A CONTRACT WITH A MOTION PICTURE STUDIO THAT WAS MAKING A MOVIE  ABOUT JIM MORRISON.  WELL AFTER NUMEROUS CALLS  BACK TO MR. SWARTZ, THERE WAS NO WAY ANYONE WOULD LET ME USE IT -  NO MATTER WHAT.  I TRIED EVERY CONVINCING WORD AND PLOY OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR , BUT IT WAS TIME TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT GREAT IDEA.  I EVEN SENT A LETTER OFF TO BEN EDMONDS.  I FORGET WHAT HIS JOB WAS THEN , BUT I THINK HE WRITES FOR ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE NOW.  .THAT WAS A TIME IN MY LIFE WHEN I FELT   I COULD CONTRIBUTE TO ROCK AND ROLL.  EVEN IF IT WAS JUST A COMMERCIAL,   IT COULD TOUCH MANY LIVES,  AS I'M SURE IT IS NOW.  AS FOR THE REST OF THE STORY,  I SENT THEM A FEW E MAILS.  I  DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WILL SAY TO THIS.  I'M SURE THEY REMEMBER MAYBE THEY THOUGHT THEY CAME UP WITH IT THEM SELVES.    THAT HAPPENS SOMETIMES.  SOMETHING IS IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND SO LONG YOU START BELIEVING IT'S TRUE UNTIL SOMEONE REMINDS YOU IT'S NOT.   THE MORAL OF THIS STORY IS ALWAYS KEEP THOSE LETTERS.   YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS   AND IF YOU HAVE PAPERWORK TO BACK YOU UP,  IT'S  HARDER TO PROVE YOU WRONG.

Don't Drink and Drive

THIS IS PART 1 .PART 2, 3, OR 4 WILL BE THE OUT COME AND FROM THE TALKS I HAD WITH THE LAWYER AND THE MUSIC PUBLISHER IT'S NOT GOING TO BE PRETTY  

  SO IF THIS IS  MY ONLY CLAIM TO FAME SO BE IT.  WHEN I THINK OF HOW MANY LIVES  COULD BE SAVED,  IT'S ALL WORTH IT.   THAT WAS THE WHOLE IDEA IN THE FIRST PLACE .....  BUT I'M STILL NOT DONE YET.  I HAVE TONS OF OTHER STUFF IN THE CLOSET .  KEEP WATCHING

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