I alert you to a stupdifying article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone Teens Save Classic Rock. And I feel dumber for having seen it.

Now, I wasn’t exactly a regular teenager… an anecdote involving an English teacher goes that she told my mother “Your sons really read different things than most other kids”, but… it has always been thus. Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” stayed on the Top 200 best-seller charts for something like 20 years because somewhere around the age of 15, everyone buys the danged thing. A couple of vaguely drugged out students in my PE locker discuss how last night’s AC/DC concerts Rocked. I wander my dorm floor in my freshman year of college, and I see a Led Zeppelin poster from … well, there’s a type of person who is a “Rawker”, and Zeppelin “Rawks”.

Maybe there’s a bit of a skew in the direction of rural plots of land — something about the radio landscape sucking us into Classic Rock radio station as “meh. the best that’s available on the air.” My first roommate in college said that there was a student introduced at a Pep Assembly under the tutelege of Queen’s “Bicycle”. I no longer remember how pep assemblys work, and what why and how this worked, but there you go. It seemed an ironic bit of nonsense against the backdrop of the other students’ modern day pop-messes.

And the Doors were bigger in the 80s than they were in the 60s. Or so I’ve heard. Or at least one small part of the 80s where the 60s were in. None of which makes Jethro Tull popular. They seem forever tapped away in my brother Chris — safe away and gone.

Of course, this is an article designed to give a wet kiss to the baby boomer that makes up the readership of the Rolling Stone Magazine. “Wow! Look how cool your music is!” I wonder if we don’t give the youth enough credit for individually discovering different things on their own, and for dissecting themsevles for theirownselves. I don’t know. It’s something I’ve pondered a bit over the past years with magazine articles about the “Youth” — or derisively, the “Yute”.

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