Hindsight

As with every visit to You Tube, I went on the site in search of one thing that led me to another and another and so on. That's the circumstance of this find. It's from 120 Minutes in 1994 with guest host Thurston Moore, already an elder statesman of alternative music at the time, interviewing Beck and Mike Diamond.

Beck's noncompliance is astounding, and Mike D doesn't do much to bring maturity to the fold. It's no wonder that generation was labeled "Gen-X"; they played themselves off at slackers... deliberately, apparently. Beck was 23! TWENTY THREE!!! I'm sure both of these artist cringe when (or if) they see this interview. They obviously both went on to be respectable performers in their own right.

My thought is this: what if musicians chose to carry themselves this way in this generation, and during a US military conflict? How ridiculous would someone look if they acted this way on television today? I'm looking at you, Jonas Brothers.