Meet the New Boss… Same as the old boss!

In Daughtry, America had the opportunity to choose distinctiveness, confidence and cool. Instead, it chose bland and boring.

My personal opinion on this whole American Idol phenom can be summed up from one of my top 10 favorite movies. In Almost Famous, Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) warns young William that the people who manipulate popular opinion of music don’t care about anything but money and that “they will ruin Rock ‘n Roll and strangle everything we love about it. They are trying to buy respectability for a form that is gloriously and righteously dumb. And the day that it ceases to be dumb is the day that it ceases to be real. Right? And then it just becomes an… industry of cool. This is a very dangerous time for rock ‘n roll. They won. The war is over. I mean 99% of what passes for music today… Silence is more compelling.

Quit watching American Karaoke American Idol people!!! For a great education on real music check out the following…

The Theme Time Radio Hour w/ Bob Dylan
iTunes School of Rock: Lesson 1- Roots and Blues (iTunes Only)
Roots of Rock ‘n Roll Study Guide (iTunes Only)