Face the Music: A Life Exposed (54 page)

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On our most recent tour. Mayhem in a confetti storm and it’s all over.

© Al Soluri

Electric Lady Studios in 1985, recording
Asylum.

Forty years. Together through it all.

© Denis O’Regan

Gene, Eric, me, and Tommy.
The best music.
The best show.
The best times.

© Ross Halfin

Me and Lady Gaga. She flew cross-country to come to the show and wore my boots for the entire show. She is the real deal. Holmdel, New Jersey, 2010.

Life doesn’t suck. Backstage at Wembley Arena, London, with my ultimate inspiration, Jimmy Page. A true gentleman.

November 19, 2005.

© Zen Todd

Doing one of those things I never imagined in my life. Baptizing Emily in church. Baptism for Colin, Sarah, and Emily was important to Erin so it was important to me. Evan was bar mitzvah’ d and the rest will be too. There is room for it all.

Proud papa with Evan at age thirteen.

© Ross Halfin

Phantom. . .a dream come true and I never worked harder in my life—an incredibly rewarding experience.

© Michael Cooper

I painted Robert Johnson for our entry to bless the house and remind us where it all started.

© Neil Zlowzower

With my little ones at the office.

It doesn’t get better than this.

© Ross Halfin

© Randy Johnson

Acknowledgments

Telling my story has been another milestone in my life. Incredibly rewarding in its connecting me through reflection to my life, its challenges, and its ultimate arrival at a pinnacle I never thought possible.

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