Re: Nine Year Old Who Fan

[Alan McKendree <amck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:47:17 EST
> From: Jdtr006@aol.com
>
> My 8 year old daughter thinks they are old aged hippies.
She's right, you know (from an American's point of view). :-)

> "Mom they are soooooo gross" was her last remarks to me. Of course
> she loves Aaron Carter...could there be a small generation gap here? :)
I'd put it down to a gender factor rather than age difference.  The 
Who has always been known as a boy's/men's band, *especially* in the 
Keith years but later as well. While I'm well aware and  appreciative 
of the female fans, the last I heard The Who's audience were 80% male 
and looking around at the 2002 shows that seems about right.

I don't know the first thing about Aaron Carter....but...does he 
scream the lyrics, approach his shows as a matter of life and death, 
frighten those in the first rows for their bodily safety, and write 
epic songs about the eternal issues of existence and the struggle for 
identity and self-actualization?  Oh, and does he do it at 110 
decibels? If he does, and your daughter's into THAT, then yeah, maybe 
she really is disgusted by the same sentiments when expressed by old 
farts.  If not, I rest my case.

Cheers,
--
Alan
"That's unbelievable, if that's true"
   -- Howard Stern, 5/25/00