Former Alice Cooper guitarist Ryan Roxie has checked in with the following update:

"Hello there Ladies & Gentleman...Hello there Ladies Gents...

Your humble host Ryan Roxie here...

I wish I could start EVERY letter I wrote out with a CHEAP TRICK quote! But alas, we are not here to discuss the legendary status of Trick, but to kick start the debut release single of the band I have been working on for the greater part of 2007 and heading into 2008, HAPPYPILL.

I'm very proud of the music and the sound that we have been able to put together as a band, and I'm very excited for you to listen to it... so much in fact, that I'm giving it to you.

I have come up with some unconventional means of promoting the music with the concepts of the Conscience Free Download (C.F.D.) and Splitting The Profits (S.T.P.). But with a little help from my friends (this being you) and a bit of good ol' fashioned luck, I'm hoping that the Happypill debut single 'This Year' will reach each and every iPod, cell phone, and boom box within the continental universe in the coming year.....aim high, right!?!

Sooooo....if you haven't been by the Happypill MySpace site lately (www.myspace.com/happypill07), please drop on by so you can see and hear what I'm talking about.

My 'official' launch date is set for December 17, 2007 (you know me and the "77" by now, don't cha!)....but your involvement can start any day you would like to. Just shoot me an email at roxie@roxie77.com and tell me you are ready to help start working 'on the pill' and I'll send ya some info on ways that would really help us out.

Simple stuff really, but just things like featuring our song 'This Year as your site's theme song and making Happypill your Top Friends on sites like MySpace and Facebook...... plus, stopping people randomly in the street and scream Happypill repeatedly in their face until you drop from exhaustion....see, simple stuff!

I just wanted to sincerely thank you beforehand, because I truly appreciate everything that you have done for me in the past, which has helped me create what is now in the present, and now gives me great hope of what we will be able to accomplish in the future....

Remember....if YOU believe in UNICORNS....UNICORNS will believe in YOU.....wait, that wasn't what I wanted to say....that sounds crazy, no?...........or is it?"

Peace, Love, and Happypill

Roxie