view from the lawn before the KISS concert | image copyright © 2019, the author

Me & the Boys are Playing . . .

Friendship and Flashbacks: Twilight of the Rock Gods

It all started back in the 1970s when my good friend Eddie Hostetler and his brothers decided it might be great fun to dress up, transforming themselves into doppelgangers of the mega-rock stars, KISS. Like most young men at the time, my buddy and his brothers were huge fans. No, this wasn’t Halloween . . . just a regular…