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I'm not against old bands, just old bands that suck. Tom Petty is cool. So are Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger. I saw all of them in the 70s and would probably see them now. Hell, I might even go see the Eagles. But Boston and Journey and Styx have always sucked.

Serious question: Do singers' voices wear out as they get old? I notice that all of these bands are missing their singers, so I'm wondering if that's the case.

I remember reading an article about Boston back in the day. Apparently, they were very happy with the huge success of their first album and would have been fine being one (album) hit wonders and doing something else with their lives. But they had a 3 record deal, and the label (Epic?) wouldn't let them out of the deal, because they knew they could make a ton of money off the band. That's why Boston's other albums were so bad -- they really had no interest or desire to make them.

And I've always liked Tom Scholz -- he was kind of a geeky guitar god. He has an EE degree fro MIT and designed all the cool guitar effects that he used on the Boston albums. I remember in the 80s, he started a company that designed and sold guitar effects. He designed the first headphone practice amp, called the 'Rockman'. It's a little box you could hang on your belt, plug in your guitar and listen on headphones. And it had built-in chorus, reverb and distortion. I bought one in 1982 and I still play with it sometimes. It doesn't seem like a big deal now, but back then it was pretty amazing. For that alone, he should be a legend.

Ummmm, okay. Those lyrics all use sexual imagery, but why does that make Bruce a paedo?

Is this one of those feminist rants about how "girl" means a woman under the age of 16?