Electric blue

And what then? "I'm not going to worry about that. I'm going to do this record and tour and try to get something going. We'd like to jump to another label, (but) if nothing really happens, I wouldn't mind taking a short hiatus just to recharge and see what I want to do next--get some new inspiration."

Then, just for a minute, that old high-school head comes creeping back, and you think about that age's most common heroes: the pilot, the gunfighter, the movie star or musician. They're all different, but they are almost always the same: loners, just like that somebody in the garage way past dark, practicing the fingerings to "You Shook Me All Night Long" or adjusting the needle valves on the carb until it's just right.

"I'm not a 'meet and greet' kind of a guy," Suhler confesses. "I'm more withdrawn. Some people think I'm really weird, (but) anything I've done, at least I've done it on my own terms. I don't have to play any songs I don't want to play, and that's very gratifying, because I've done it the other way.