What's both shocking and heartening is going on Youtube and looking up some old thing you haven't heard in a while and you'll read something like, "I'm 15 years old and I would like to know why we don't have music like this anymore? Everything sounds like shit today."

Once I was checking out The Stooges "I Wanna Be Your Dog" from 1969 and some kid wrote, "Ever get the feeling this song was way ahead of its time?"

Another said, "If it weren't for Iggy, we wouldn't have what we have today."

The response was, "Don't say that. We don't have anything today."

Which only proves my point. Even many of the the kids today know they have been sold a false bill of goods. When I was a teen, I thought the rock thing would last forever. Not only was I wrong but when it went--WHAM--it was just gone.