concept album

"garbage man, garbage man, what did you want to be?"

being a garbage man is a good job. good money, job security. you just have to be OK breaking some legs and disposing of bodies once in a while for the mafia. so a guy becomes a garbage man for the money & security, on his mom's insistence, and he ends up, over time, becoming entangled in a mafia world of drugs, money, contract killings, strippers, homemade wine, and excellent italian food at a local hole-in-the-wall resturant... and all the while he just wanted to be a disc jockey.

it would be all modern-rock-opera sounding music, intertwined with brief interludes of traditional italian mandolin 'godfather' kind of music, but also a recurring theme of 'earth angel'-esque 50's ballad moments, thrown in sharp contrast to the rock music... like the little interlude at the end of "seven and seven is" by love...

the traditional italian music is there to dramatize the mafia-moments in the story. it can also be overlayed with real-life sound effects, like the sound of the protagonist loading a gun, or uncorking wine, or starting his car...

the 50's music is there to dramatize his dreams, flashbacks, etc... he dreamt of being a disc jockey, it haunts him... eerily seeping into his mind at stressful moments... or maybe it forewarns him of something bad about to happen...

... or maybe it even drives him mad... it's the emerging, once-repressed memory of a teenage 50's-greaser rampage night moment where he killed someone...

maybe like his father disappeared when he was a kid, and no one knew where he went, they assume he had ran away because he had just gotten a draft notice or something... but in actuality he killed his own father when he was a young teen, and had repressed the memory!!! and as he, reluctantly at first, indulges in his violent nature as a mafia sgt. the memory starts to bubble-up. and what drives him mad is the
realization that his good-ol-days image of his teenage years (love of music, of DJ'ing.. the things he dreams about) are spoiled by his memory of this violent act against his own father...

recurring themes: family honor & betrayal, lost innocence