There once was a little boy who wanted to rock. But as rock musicians know well, mastering power chords and shredding like guitar heroes is really hard. So David Weiser wrote a children's book to help his son.
There once was a boy who wanted to rockHe thought they would when he first sat down to playIn the book, an octopus shows the boy the eight notes on a piano with his eight tentacles.
“We'll teach you to strut and to do it with swagger,” they say, “just like we taught Angus, Prince and Mick Jagger." He jokes that his children's book has really been an elaborate cover for him to keep acting like a kid. But over the years he's observed how rockers and producers are always searching for ways to channel their inner-child.
Then came the idea for an audiobook. But Weiser didn't want to narrate it himself. So he took a chance and asked British theater star Ria Jones whose name has graced the marquees of theaters Weiser has worked at, “dragging around cables and plugging in keyboards,” he said. “Even if the little tiny bit of work that I provided was like putting an Alka-Seltzer in the ocean at least it was something,” he said. “Everybody got paid up front.”that helps working entertainment artists.
While practicing is surely part of “The Boy Who Wanted To Rock's” message, Weiser said it's definitely not about scales, lessons and perfection.
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