I'm Not a Fan, But The Kids Like It

Every day I drive home past the Boardwalk, and sometimes I look at the marquee, and sometimes I don't, but if there's a big-ass crowd snaking around out of the parking lot onto the sidewalk, I certainly have to see who's playing.

The near side was out of date and had at the top

11 MONTROSE

which was unfortunate because I would really love to see Ronnie Montrose in a small venue like that but we had other plans back then (anniversary, San Francisco, Giants game). Under that was a bunch of other crap I forget and as I drove along, looking at about two hundred kids in their twenties and late teens, grunged out in their jeans and t-shirts and other pseudo-punk summer deadbeat attire, I went through the usual exercise of trying to remember what day it was.

11th was a Friday and so was the 18th so 19, 20, 21, 22, ah! today's the 22nd

In the middle of the far side of the sign it said

22 BROKENCYDE

and I thought, who the fuck is that? Pretty dog gamn popular today. Wiki says they're pretty shitty.

"fucking horrendous"

"a mockery to the world of music"

"a Slipknot-Cher duet"

"a near-perfect snapshot of everything that’s shit about this point in the culture"

"even if I caught Prince Harry and Gary Glitter adorned in Nazi regalia defecating through my grandmother’s letterbox I would still consider making them listen to this album too severe a punishment."

Good God! Sounds like rock and roll to me.