Will,

I can't disagree with what you say.

Unfortunately (well, to me it's unfortunate), the highest musical aspiration that most young people seem to have is to 'be in a band', i.e. a 'rock band'. Popular music seems to have ossified into a form where one young person screams unintelligible words into a microphone whilst other young persons accompany him/her on electric guitars, drums and, occasionally, keyboards. To my dismay no-one, except me, seems to be in the least bit bored with this excruciatingly boring and ugly form of presentation - which now seems set to continue to the end of time ('Emperor's New Clothes' syndrome, I suppose).