After leaving Minuette's, both Twilight and Spike walked to their first destination.
"Jeff's Music Store." Twilight said out loud, reading the sign of the building in front of them. The filly smiled happily, shaking the small drake on her back. "Spike, this looks like the place."
Both of them walked in, taking in the store. All sorts of different colors and genres of music was plastered on the wall of the store. Different instruments were hung on the wall or on the floor. There was a sofa on the right of the room, a small stage on the left with lights and special effects, a counter in the back an one singular shelf with what it seemed to be bowling trophies. A young colt, slightly older then her brother, was currently trying out one of the guitars, playing a jazzy tune. It wasn't exactly bad but she could tell he was still learning.
"No. No. No. No. No." Twilight jumped as a large brown stallion walked into the room, interrupting the adolescent pony from his guitar playing. It took her a second before realizing that this was the stallion she was looking for. He clearly aged a bit, his mane grew longer and he now has a goatee also Twilight could tell he added a few pounds over the years, but other then that he still looked like the Jeff from the CD cover. Jeff took the guitar away from the teen with his magic, giving him a stern look to him.
"This is a rock-'n'-roll guitar for rock-'n'-roll music." he said, hanging the guitar back onto the stand. The teen, clearly unamused, rolled his eyes.
"Whatever." he replied, turning away and heading towards the door, not noticing Twilight and Spike as he walked by them.
"Okay, run. The power of rock too scary for you, I see." Jeff mocked with a roll of the eyes of his own. He paused, however, when he noticed a small filly and dragon standing in front of him. Nervously she opened her saddle bag and took out the Magic Love CD, much to his surprise.
"Uh, you must be Jeff Letrotski of Magic Love, right?" she asked awkwardly, hoping not to get him mad. Jeff simply chuckled, finding her extremely cute.
"Always an honor to be recognized by my fans." he said, ruffling Twilight. This actions caused her to loosen up a bit as she gave a small chuckle as well. "Hey, aren't you a little young to be fans of Magic Love?" Twilight nodded, straightening her mane as she placed the CD back into her bag.
"Yes, we are, but our parents aren't." she jumped as the door slammed shut. Apparently the teen just left. "Don't you think you were a little tough on that guy?" she asked, watching him leave past the window. Jeff simply scoffed, waving a hoof in the air.
"Oh, he'll be back... when the spirit of rock calls him!" he yelled that last part, causing Twilight and Spike to wince at the volume.
"Wow, you sure are passionate about rock-'n'-roll." she said, rubbing her ears until they popped. Jeff, unaffected, smiled fondly.
"Well, it's only my life. Sit down, I'll tell you a little story." Twilight gasped happily as she sat down eagerly in front of the stage. She absolutely LOVED stories! Using his magic, he picked an instrument and turned on the lights and special effects. Suddenly, everything was in black and white. Jeff stood on his hind hooves as he started the first few notes of a song that Twilight immediately recognized as the blues.
♪ When I was a colt, down in Manehattan, ♪
♪ I heard a stallion playing blues, oh, what a wonderful hymn, ♪
♪ He had an old guitar, but not a dollar to his name, ♪
♪ Making music so sad, but he was happy just the same, ♪
♪ He gave me a wink, and said: "Son, let me share the news, ♪
♪ If you want a happy life, you gotta learn to sing the blues!"♪
The lights and color changed into something more livelier. Now he started playing a 50's Boogie-Woogie.
♪ I asked my daddy for a guitar, ♪
♪ Oh, I begged and I plead, ♪
♪ I said I wanted to play the blues, and he just nodded his head, ♪
♪ Daddy said when he was my age, ♪
♪ "Boogie-Woogie" was the thing, ♪
"♪ Just take the blues, throw out your hip, and add a little swing! ♪" Twilight sang along, causing Jeff to grin.
♪ Ah, music has the power, that without it, he'd a-sworn ♪
♪ That he'd a never met my mom and I'd a-never been born ♪
He went onto his back as he played a guitar solo, clearly enjoying himself, as the colors swirled around them
"So what's this?" Twilight asked, curious as ever.
"This is Psychedelia. It's where the guitar solo came from." he replied, getting up from the floor some how while he's still playing.
"No, I mean what's with all the colors?" The music suddenly stops as Jeff looks at his surroundings in confusion.
"I have no idea."
Trying to regain momentum, he quickly changed styles and color once more into Funk music.
♪ Ha! ♪
♪ I kept learning ♪
♪ All the powers my guitar had ♪
♪ I made it go "walka-walka" ♪
♪ 'Till it was so good it was bad ♪
"♪ Just make a face, and stomp that bass, ♪" Twilight joined, stomping her hooves to the rhythm. Even though she can't dance it doesn't mean she can't keep rhythm.
"♪ You can make that rhythm bump ♪
♪ But this is just the blues, but in a way that makes you wanna shake your rump! ♪" Twilight and Spike laughed as they wiggled their rumps, Jeff laughed as well as he continued.
"♪ I can make you clap your hooves ♪"
All three of them clapped.
♪ I can make you get up and dance ♪
♪ If you wanna shake your booty, my friend, ♪
♪ You gotta give the funk a chance! ♪
All of a sudden Jeff changed his music and lights to Rock Metal. Twilight jumped at first but bashed her head along with Spike.
♪ Metal! ♪
♪ Pound your hooves in the air! ♪
♪ Metal! ♪
♪ Bang your head full of hair! ♪
♪ It's crunchy, and it's nasty, full of bad attitude, ♪
"♪ Your parents will think you're crazy, your neighbors will think you're rude ♪" Twilight sang, knowing from experience because of Shinning loving this type of music at full blast.
♪ Believe it or not, it's all the blues again; ♪
♪ You just add a little fuzz and turn your amp up to 10! ♪
♪ Music has the power to change your life, ♪
♪ Forever! ♪
Jeff played one more guitar sole, finish his story with one more note.
♪ Shuh! ♪
The lights stopped, turning the room back to normal. Twilight cheered loudly, stomping her hooves on the ground while Spike whistled. Happy by the positive review, bowed dramatically.
"Thank you, thank you." he said, as if facing a giant crowd once again.
"You know," Twilight said, getting his attention mid-bow. "our parents fell in love at one of your concerts." This seemed to over joy him.
"See? Music does change lives." he replied, placing the guitar away. Twilight and Spike shared a quick look before the purple filly build up the confidence.
"Well, how'd you like to sing for our parents' wedding anniversary?" She saw Jeffs back freeze and at first, she thought he might refuse or laugh in her face, but was relieved when he turned around with an ecstatic grin on his hairy face.
"That'd be righteous dude!" His grin slipped though. "But good luck getting the other guys."
"Who can resist the power of rock-'n'-roll?" she joked, cheering Jeff up a bit as he gave a small chuckled.
"Magic Love reunion. Rock on, little dudes." he called out as they started to leave after they gave him their home address. With a wave good bye, Spike and Twilight was about to leave when the teen from before came bursting in with a look in his eyes as Twilight can only describe as inspiration. The teen grabbed the guitar and placed it on the stage next to Jeff.
"The spirit of rock'n'roll has called out to me!" he exclaimed, taking out his wallet. Jeff sent a wink to Twilight before looking at the teen smugly.
"I knew it. That'll be 1,800 bits."