At 06:31 PM 1/8/2004 -0600, Rick McCall wrote:
>However, this little hobby of ours that's more like an obsession with many
>of us often has it's roots in some fairly lowbrow human behavior.  Rock has
>always  been about excess (and I'm speaking in broad strokes here, not as a
>hard and fast rule), whether it be sex or drugs or alcohol.  One night
>stands or one hour stands, glorified abuse of drugs and alcohol is common to
>the genre.  And if you add rap and/or hip hop into the mix, now we're
>talking a whole different descent into the hell of physical and sexual
>abuse, rape and murder.

Cause, y'know, nobody EVER sang about those things before hip-hop...

S