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Karl and the Kooltones
J.S. Quelch
Oak Tree Press
January 2015
On Sale: December 30, 2014
198 pages ISBN: Kindle: B00RM8LTF8 Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction
Karl is a cynical, melodramatic, mildly paranoid,
professional-engineer-cum-musician in the throes of a
midlife crisis. Growing up on a farm in the post
Woodstock Midwest, coming of age in The City as Disco
rose and Punk fell, passing his prime in The Suburbs as a
family guy and director of the band Karl and Kooltones,
music is the common thread of Karl’s journey. His art
imitates his life as he transitions from relatively
innocent youth playing tuba in a small time polka band,
to rebellious heavy metal guitarist achieving not-enough-
to-quit-the-day-job success, to fading middle aged lounge
singer still on a Don Quixote like quest to keep the
dream alive. But the thread is unraveling. His third wife
and true soul mate has died, he is hopelessly caught in
the corporate meat grinder, and the band is sadly
floundering. Karl and the Kooltones is a story of inglorious struggle,
of overcoming personal setbacks to achieve lofty goals in
the face of countless, faceless conspiracies. It is a
story of failure, as the large majority of creative
people endeavoring to “make it” with their chosen art
understand, but it is also a story of hope. Hope that
perseverance prevails and The Big Break catapults you to
fame and fortune before you’re too old to enjoy it. Hope
that when the break doesn’t come, when the conspiracies
become more than pipe dreams, and when one’s mortality is
realized, something unexpected will show itself. Hope
that a lifetime of chasing The Feel, that spiritual
uplift and elation that occurs when a live band and
audience achieve harmonic convergence, wasn’t in vain.
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