“When the music’s over..turn out the lights” Jim Morrison had uttered these prophetic words thirty years ago. It really is time to turn out the lights. Popular music today, as we know it has been stumbling about in the darkness of its own myopia. Now I know it’s a classic cliché for every generation growing up to lament the loss of quality in comparison to its younger counterparts, but it’s really true this time. For a rolling stone to gather no moss it has to roll downhill and what happens when it finally reaches the bottom, left on its own with no direction home, like a complete unknown?? Where are our music icons?? All we hear of them is on the latest “retro” complication cd or a duet with some new kid on the block or when they finally to get play a concert in our India or maybe a little more later in obituaries. Whatever happened to the songs that sent our hearts beating like a bass drum, music that made us grow our hair, rock stars that made “us” listeners’ feel like one. The ai...
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