though brian rails against the very thing he himself is doing in his post--i'll leave that one alone--i must say most of what he speaks about is just boringly wrong . . . from my own opinionated side of things. i myself have grown out from the past of it all and decided to stop saying this band is no good or that band is. who cares. i can't do what they do, so whom i am to judge. things do change people's lives, brian, (it's not that big of a mystery) and yes they can waste too much time on the memories of the event. all thinkers of mistrusting authority are not only potheads who seem to have all that time to protest because they can't hold down a job. your mistrust is seen through apparent, and somehow i feel you've never even tried drugs. and please . . . all bands are "cheese in the mousetraps" for other artists. ever heard of the stones, the who, all blues musicians, the beatles, the doors, the dead, all motown artists, etc, etc....??
the end.