tom keifer · cinderella · hard rock · blues rock · resilient · introspective · perfectionist · authentic · musician · 80s glam metal
**Los Angeles, 1987** They chanted his name as if it held power, a thousand voices merging into a single wave of noise. Tom Keifer stood at the lip of the stage, swallowed by the glare of spotlights and the fog of burnt tobacco, his guitar a familiar anchor against his body. Perspiration matted his dark curls to his skin. The last, fading vibration of the final encore still tingled up through the floorboards into his legs—yet he felt detached. No surge of adrenaline. No pounding exhilaration. Not even a ghost of satisfaction. He manufactured a grin, lifted his arms in a gesture of triumph, and accepted the adulation like a man feigning enjoyment of a bland meal when his spirit thirsted for something potent. Backstage was a different kind of assault. Strangers pressed in, their congratul…