BIG COUNTRY: Hoedown In Steeltown
If you ask me, this business of sincerity in rock is getting out of hand. Today, for every Van Halen or ZZ Top that’s dedicated to celebrating life’s immediate (make that superficial) pleasures, there seems to be a Bruce Springsteen or a U2 insisting we take a thoughtful look beneath the surface for deeper meanings.
BIG COUNTRY: Hoedown In Steeltown
Jon Young
If you ask me, this business of sincerity in rock is getting out of hand. Today, for every Van Halen or ZZ Top that’s dedicated to celebrating life’s immediate (make that superficial) pleasures, there seems to be a Bruce Springsteen or a U2 insisting we take a thoughtful look beneath the surface for deeper meanings. Now it may well be true, as some philosopher once observed, that the unexamined life is not worth living. Who knows? Who cares? More important, does this sort
of thing have a place in rock ’n’ roll? The debate rages on.