My My, Hey Hey

My 81 year-old father went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert at Madison Square Garden this week. I called him on the phone and he told me all about it. All the amazing people, like Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Sting (his comment on Sting- "I saw Sting. I don't know his last name. I guess I don't know his first name either."), and his favorite of the bunch, Bruce Springsteen. He went on and on about all of them, kind of summing up by saying, "You know, I hate all the music these days, but that older stuff is pretty good." To which I replied, "Uh, perhaps this isn't the moment to remind of what you used to say about all of these people back in the day."

So there's something good you can say about pop music today. It makes older rock music sound good even to my dad.