“Rough Music” is my last fictional story, set in 1970s
America. I wrote it a year or so ago,
and I hope someday to write more “band stories” but for the present I’m working
on editing my partner’s poems and stories.
“Rough Music” is set some time ago (think when I was a kid) . Bands
worked on the road for much of the time.
Tours were long and hard and many
marriages broke down under the strain of the men (usually) being away for such
long periods, and their finding other women on the road while their wives were
at home with the house and children. My
two chief characters Jeff and Brandon are good friends and they are a bit guilty
about the way that their work means they don’t spend enough times at home and
that they have other women and use drugs to ease the stress of travelling. but
they are men of their time and don’t feel overly guilty… However Jeff finds
that when he divorces one wife and marries another, he’s in a similar situation. He’s still not that close to his wife. She is annoyed that he is away so much and
that there are other women.
I try to make my characters realistically male, which means
they would usually prefer to hang out with their buddies and play games and
drink, than to be home all the time.
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