When I'm Fifty Seven

While I studiously avoid television (and reality shows altogether), I couldn't help but be hooked on to the 'SuperGroup' series on VH1. The show put together five larger-than-life rock personalities who initially seemed as if they needed to be held together by band-aid. Their end goal was to perform in a live concert in Las Vegas. Watching their excellent performance on stage in the final show just underscored what is lacking in today's rock-and-roll world : a rock-and-roll artist.

We have social activists, gay rights activists, anti-religion activists and political activists, but they are activists first and musicians (a distant) last. What ever became of old fashioned music? When music was just music, and rock and roll was rock and roll - not an instrument of change, or rebellion, or a political revolution, but music first and music last.

But this group just screamed, shouted, abused, leered and spun out music into proving that 'it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing'. Phew! The way Jason Bonham and Ted Nugent weaved out their cover version of 'Out on the Tiles' was simply stunning. On that note, if I live to be fifty-seven, hope I can kick butt like Ted Nugent.