This your mama's rock and roll ..?

I was watching the VH1 rock and roll hall of fame 2006 induction ceremony and had this strange feeling that I was being cheated, duped. When the Metallica guys came to lavish praise on their idols, Black Sabbath, the lead singer of Metallica was talking something about a 9-year old kid inside him. Now, when I was growing up, all around me folks scared the heck out of me about following this kind of hard-metal stuff, that it will brainwash you and you will become a crack-head etc. But these, Metallica guys were sounding like American Idols, talking mushy-squishy stuff - that is - until they started playing - then I knew, that these were the real guys. Phew ...

Continuing on the mushy-squishy stuff, the Lynrd Skynrd band came on, and boy could they be any more trailer-trash and sentimental ? Goodness gracious, the veteran keyboard player was thanking his wife and grown children, What ?????? You ain't supposed to have no wife and kids man, just groupies lying naked on your kitchen floor ...

What really got me was that this was the kind of music the "conservatives" kept away from us. But they happily embrace the guys who gave you the Abu Ghraib-mass-naked-men-pyramid ? Go figure !

Anyway, when Lynrd Skynrd started playing 'Sweet Home Alabama' it was sweeeetttt..... Boy, I miss "real" rock-and-roll.