What becomes of a 1960s rocker after his career is washed up and his spirit is spent? He returns home to die...or to live once again. Taylor Ross, a veteran of seventy-five million albums with the rock group Vulture (1967-1985), spent the following fifteen post-band years vegetating in his Beverly Hills mansion and smoking pot. Restless, he decides to contact his old high school friend, Dave Smith, and 'Smitty' proceeds to narrate the story of this ailing former rock star's quest for fulfillment at the end of a prosperous but meaningless life, and how a single bond of love helps him find his goal.Following his return to town, and after seeing that the former 140 member high school band now sported less than thirty members, an angered Taylor confronts the aging band director, Bob Harmon. He's the same man who suspended Taylor back in the sixties and thus thwarted any chance for his graduation. Taylor tells Harmon that he could put together a band ten times the size of the current one. Bob Harmon quits on the spot and challenges Taylor to fulfill his pledge.