I knew you'd be with me, Dave!! Long time no see!

Zeppelin was notorious for screaming at fans begging for metal, "Shut up and listen to THIS!" whilst John Paul Jones would pull out his 6-string/12-string/mandolin all-in-one guitar and they rip out a beautiful acoustic set.

On the pianos at the music store at the mall, there are little signs that say "Please do not play Mary Had A Little Lamb, Chopsticks, Fur Elise, or Stairway To Heaven." Am I seeing something that others are not? You CAN'T know what will be still remembered 100 years from now unless you are a time traveller. Bach's music was forgotten until Mendelsohn revived it almost 100 years later. Vivaldi was almost unknown for anything else besides "The 4 Seasons" until the movie Kramer vs. Kramer re-introduced his Mandolin Concerto, which before that, was lost in obscurity. Now we have such albums as "Vivaldi's Greatest Hits" featurning the Mandolin Concerto. Written 300 years ago, and only been a "greatest hit" since the mid-70's. After Scott Joplin died in 1912, his music was virtually lost, except as some sort of bawdy strip-tunes. It was that pianist/music historian's album of Joplin's work, and subsequently it's use in the movie The Sting that brought it back to the forefront. NEVER turn your back on anything. You'll never know what the future generation will bring back to light. Heck, they may find Scottish band's acoustic cover of Britney's "Hit Me Baby One More Time" and think it's the original, and love it, and no one will have to remember BrICKney.

--Matt