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In the meantime, he wants you to know it's time to break out the spandex jeans and the headband collection, to wear that Whitesnake T-shirt with honor. It's okay to want to rock and roll all night and party every day, even if your ability to actually do so is years behind you.

"You don't need to drive around with your windows rolled all the way up when you're listening to this music," he says. "You can turn it up at the stoplights again. I don't want to get too political, but the world has changed a lot. This music brings back a better time, when all you had to worry about was what Atari game you were going to buy and having your ten bucks to throw in for your beer, rather than when the next rent payment is due and how you're going to pay your cell-phone bill. It all has to do with fun; it's as simple as that.

A wild and crazy guy: Harlan Hendrickson with Skid Row.

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"With everything going on in the world today," he adds, "people can use some fun music."