Lucky

Lucky really pushed them into the psychedelic. Other worldly, interstellar sounds came from his keyboard. He could get as rocking as the rest of them, but occasionally his tendency was to fall into melancholy.

- Book I, T-Minus

The self-conscious pulse behind the keyboard is Lucky, Jonny’s personified ego; the entity in charge of worry, the one to inject some semblance of anxious reality into the woodshed. Lucky, like the rest of the band, performs his categorical archetype within Jonny’s psyche, and fulfills his duty as the questioning emotional bridge between Isleda’s visionary intuition and to Altony’s bloody heartbeat thumping. Lucky carries Jonny’s heartache and fears from beyond the woodshed, positioning him by default as the band member most grounded in reality. His keyboard floats between the pounding drums and shredding strings in practice, musically dancing in circles to create dream-esque melodic meanderings. Lucky and Altony particularly clash, embarrassed to be so closely associated, and as opposite as a hummingbird hovering over a blossom with grace and caution versus a bounding bear that swats it from the stem.

“I have a novel idea, how ‘bout we cut past the back ‘n forth,go ahead and just play something?”

“Yea, come over ‘ere. Put ya hands on my snare, I gotta new break-beat to show ya!”

- Lucky to Altony, Book I