[Jeff Higgins]

Forget the radio. It's amazing to me what is available on CD these days. I used to cruise the used record stores looking for the good stuff. Much of it has been re-released on CD. I never listen to the radio anymore.

Just to give you guys a glimmer of hope for the future of civilization as we know it, I offer this. My oldest son just graduated high school and started at the UW. We sent him away to high school; a private school in Wisconsin. This is a Lutheran school, mind you. Kids living in dorm rooms. When I went back there to hunt with him and his dorm supervisor last year I walked into a typical boys' dorm. Doors were open; music was blaring. And what did my tired ears but hear? Jimi. Zeppelin. Floyd. No rap, no hip-hop. Hid dorm supervisor told me that's all the kids listen to - "ain't it great?" Rock'n'roll is making a comeback in my kids' generation. It has the staying power some of the newer stuff cannot match. "Hey hey, my my, rock and roll will never die..."