I'm an Idiot ...Part 1001

I just realized that the dude who sings in the Wallflowers (Jakob Dylan)
is Bob Dylan's son. Popular music pretty much suspended in time for me around
1978 or so. I can't tell you which "U2" record is better... I didn't think
Kurt Cobain deserved Hendrix-like hero status (Hendrix he ain't), and FM radio from the '80s and '90's - forget it.

So my head has been out of it for 30 years... that's longer than my WWII swing-band-sax playing father's was in 1970 when I was shocking him with Led Zep, Cream,
and anyone else with a guitar that needed plugging in.

Today's rap "artists" annoying the adults are not the same thing as the hippy musicians annoying the adults 30 years ago...my generation could play -
they didn't just loop or "sequence" . To me - the practice is no different than hacking a Picasso up into pieces with a utility knife, duct-taping it back together in a different order, and then claiming you painted it.

Shame on any songwriter who lets his/her stuff be used in that way. Just because you can scream some C.lassic RAP over the opening lick in 'Hotel California' does not put you in the same club with Don Henley. But unfortunately, Henley signed off on it...and that puts him in the same club with Kanye West and the boyz.

Speaking of the talentless (yet oh, so arrogant) Kanye... 0ne of the lamest things I've seen lately(if you discount Kanye's pre-schoolish "yo-where's the rest of my awards-yo" at the grammy's that is... ) was the talentless Kanye onstage with the Police, screaming YO..
YO... YO... YE-AH....YE-AH between the lines of "Message In A Bottle". Yikes.

DUDE, YOU'RE ONSTAGE WITH STING. SHUT THE F-UP AND LISTEN - YOU MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING . It's no wonder the recording industry is in the shape it's in.