RE: This *IS* a social crisis...

["Brian Cady" <cadyb@home.com>]

> Spot on Jeff.  This guy suffers from not being able to look outside of the
> box he's been living in his entire life.  The same box that society (our
> society; Western Society) has been crammed into for ages.  You
> get old, you
> become worthless.
> Where is *that* written into stone??

I think this point of view comes from a variety of sources:

1) Rockers of the '60's used to espouse ageism (and any more than The Who?)
so now that they're old and still performing, they're hypocrites.

2) The NME (or "the enemy" as Ray Davies calls them) has been hammering the
punk credo for almost 25 years now that '60's rockers should f-f-f-fade away
to make room for the new breed. The fact that these punk rockers they still
champion are now much older than The Who were in the late 70's is their
hypocrisy. Why aren't they calling for Joe Strummer and John Lydon to get
out of the way of the new bands?

3) Many, many people see a rocker in his 50's on stage as the equivalent of
watching a man and woman in their 50's naked and having sex. EWWWWWWW!
Please close the door on that!

It's all simply prejudice left utterly unexamined by almost all of the rock
press. That's why almost all their writing
is so awful. No one but the musicians seem to be looking at the validity of
their underlying precepts.

> BTW, I love the movie Tommy.
> I think it's great.
> And, I'd bet money Pete really liked the Tommy Broadway production too.

He should. He's responsible for practically every change in it. It really
should have been called "Pete Townshend's Tommy" instead of "The Who's
Tommy."

        -Brian in Atlanta
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