"Though thoroughly modern and fresh in its sonic approach, Basic Glee offers glorious echoes of a shining moment when rock music was reaching towards the glee of greatness on a daily basis...Richard is an artist driven by more than the search for a hit - hes someone whos personally obsessed and intimately connected with the power of rock & roll in our lives. Music is more than a career to this guy - its a lifelong passion. And thats why his blood is all over these tracks...when it comes to those priceless seconds of musical pleasure brought to us by a true rock artist like Richard X. Heyman, Glee is not simply basic