I'm not content just to listen to the past. It's our culture that's at stake here. The last time this happened was the late 50s when the all rocknrollers dried up: Elvis went in the army, Little Richard became a preacher, the plane crash that killed Buddy, Bopper and Richie, Ray Charles and Fats started doing country, Chuck Berry went to jail, and Bill Haley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and Jerry Lee Lewis all fled to England and Eddie would die there in '60. All you had for the most part were the lightweights and the white imitators who made a killing off swiping black folks' material and getting played on stations that wouldn't play the black artists whose stuff these white artists were swiping.

What happened next? It's called the British Invasion. But Britain today doesn't seem to be much better off than America--possibly even worse. So whose going to inject some life into our crumbling music scene?