Monday Metal: The Lament

We've been thinking about Heavy Metal a lot lately.

We've loved metal for 30 years.

That's not true exactly. About 1995 we jumped off the rock & roll train and got into classical and the big bands.

In the early 2000's we rediscovered metal. A Line Through the Desert was the catalyst. As we wrote the rough draft we listened to Led Zeppelin. So Sgt. Jake Bloom loves Led Zeppelin. Had we begun ALTD in 2006 he would have loved AC/DC. 2008 and Bloom would have loved Iron Maiden.

Actually, in Whatever Happened to Jake and Patricia Bloom, we've been looking for a new band for Jake to get into. We settled on the Velvet Underground.

At the age of 30 the seven years we hadn't been listening to rock still seemed like a long time.

We're wondering how much longer we can listen to this stuff. After all rock & roll is dead and what's left is a nostalgia act. As noted previously the crowd at the Bryan Adams concert this summer was looking pretty old. Heck, Brian Johnson of AC/DC is our father's age. Yikes.

The new(ish) bands we like Wolfmother, The Answer, have been around for a decade. While they're doing ok, they've never taken off the way the would have say in 1990.

What's the greatest living rock band? We're not counting the Rolling Stones. Aerosmith we guess and Steven Tyler looks like an old woman.

Maybe its just us. We're 44. Were punchy, we have gout, high blood pressure, bad cholesterol and we take half a dozen pills at bedtime. 

We're middle aged and rock and roll is a young man's game. Problem is all the young men are into something else.

Time to pack it in?