Metric Modulation

By Marc Vale

Kyle Rittner used to be the road manager for White Hammer back in the day. Now he gets an offer to manage them again. The band is ready to take on the road and tour the States in hopes to make a comeback. And it's all possible, as long as the band listens to Kyle about what songs to play and what not to.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marc Vale
• Release date: Nov 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465702050

Marc Vale

Marc Vale is a musician, writer, and podcaster. He also is a husband and a dad. Currently, he's released All Roads Lead to Blue Lake, a short story collection, as an audio and is working on having it come out as an ebook here on Smashwords.

Book preview

Metric Modulation

by

Marc Vale

SMASHWORDS EDITION

*****

PUBLISHED BY:

Marc Vale at Smashwords

Copyright 2011 by Marc Vale

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share the book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners.

Cover art by Marc Vale

http://www.marcvale.blogspot.com

email: [e-mail]

Metric Modulation

Chapter 1

Getting back in the Business

Kyle Rittner sat in the break room smoking his cigarette with the rest of the factory workers. He flicked his ashes in the shared ashtray.

Come on Kyle tell us again, Eric asked. Kyle wondered if he wanted to really hear the story again or if he just wanted to hear his accent.

Oh I don’ ‘now. I’ve told it already, Kyle blew out a blue trail.

Yeah, I know, but hearing that you managed White Hammer is cool, better than Larry’s stories about his bitch of a wife, Erick said. Larry nodded in agreement.

All right then, Kyle answered. So I was drummin’ in this band back in the day right? When I met up with this bloke who invited me to this party after the show, I was younger then so I says, ‘sure, I’ll be there with bells on.’ Turns out he was the lead guitar player for White Hammer. They weren’t anything back then, just another band struggling to make it. Only thing was they were American trying to cut into the London scene so naturally the girls swept to them like a flame to a moth. So I go to this party and it has a room full of slags all ready to shag.

Eric started laughing, Did you hear that? Slag, what the hell’s a slag?

Come off it, I’ve told you before, you know what it means.

Yeah but, I just like the sound of it. Larry your wife’s a slag! Eric slapped the table. Larry looked more interested in Kyle’s story then Eric’s slam.

"Right, nice one, anyway, make a long story short, we got to be friends and later I started managing the band on the road back in seventy-two, when music was experimental. For eighteen years I traveled the world with drugged up drunken rock stars shagging all the