An unsettling moment.....

[lee wallace <sprockethome@yahoo.com>]

Had an interesting experience last night. I go to a
friend's house to pick him up for band practice. I
walk in to a scene with three or four dudes passing
around a bong, listening to the just-released
Radiohead album. I hang out for a minute, waiting, and
these dudes are like IN AWE. It sounds okay to me,
kinda like Floydish ambient guitar synth waves. I
liked "OK Computer" and "The Bends" so I am kinda
interested in hearing it. Then my bud finally comes
down, and he emphatically tells everyone "hey, Lee
here just saw the Who the other night! Isn't that
awesome?!?" Then one of the stoners says "did they do
American Woman?" and then there is a round of
Bevis-n-Butthead style laughter and someone says "he
he, good one!" Then there are some comments about how
the Guess Who had played at some city festival years
ago and how they were "fat useless bores". I sort of
wondered if these guys knew the difference.
   It occured to me then that for alot of folks,
especially younger dudes, The WHO are probably just
another "classic rock" band, another band that "dad
likes", another group that like Skynyrd or Boston or
what have ya has been played to death on US radio for
the past 30 years.
   After practice I went home and listened to most of
Blues to the Bush and felt relieved.
                                        -LW

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