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Yeah, well, I was probably exagerating about junior's taste for rap, although there is a bit too much of it in the house for this old fart's tastes. He and his mates dress the part -- oppressed members of the white-boy-with-elephantine-pants-and-gold-chains community -- but I came home the other day and Squirt had White Light/White Heat from Rock and Roll Animal blasting on auto repeat while he did his homework.

So if he likes Lou, there may yet be hope for him.

I've got the Bonfire triple set, the one with the radio concert in New York and the live gig in paris. Powerage is neat album, too. I grew up in Australia and used to see the seedies at the local pubs all over Melbourne. They were a real hard-workin' dirty band, three gigs a night circa 1975 or so -- and Bon in a close, crowded room was unbelievable.

So now that I've established my ruptured-eardrum credentials, you know who I saw tonight live? A gal called Norah Jones who sings and plays piano and who couldn't be softer or quieter but is an absolutely astonishing vocalist. I must be getting old.

I must be getting old!

Nah, you're just expanding your tastes. I was a die hard rocker from the 'Summer of Love' (oh brother), but I now listen to all kinds of music:

Nickle Creek (bluegrass)
Maire Brennan (spiritual)
Frank Sinatra
Buddy Rich & Gene Krupa
WW2 Big Band
Classics like 'Bolero'

But I still like good 'ol rock. One of my fave new CD's is Paul Rodgers 'Electric'. It ROCKS ('Deep Blue' rips) + has some mellow tunes too.
I also just swapped for two early Beatles CD's as I love their older stuff.

I will never understand the affection many young white kids feel for emulating black urban culture....maybe because it's sort of verboten or the snarly aspect makes em feel tuff and swaggering...anyhow it's not for me. Now when I was young (in the 1800s)...we liked Smokey Robinson(still do actually) and Superfly but we didn't want to dress or act like them.

You're more socailly liberal(I don't mean that as a flame) than me. I love R&R Animal ...I remember it very very well...summer 1974. I still have it on CD. Steve Hunter of Alice Cooper played guitar on it. But the lyrics are not something I would encourage on my kids. My folks didn't have a clue I was living in a haze myself then. I do.