THE CIRCLE OF LIFE

I WAS JUST RECENTLY ON MY WAY BACK HOME TO HOUSTON DRIVING THE SILVER BULLET, AND JAMMING TO THE IPOD. AS I WAS MAKING IT DOWN THE TERRIBLY BORING I-10 I STARTED TO RECOGNIZE HOW WE HAVE MADE A FULL CIRCLE IN MUSIC. WE HAVE COME FROM ELVIS, THE BEATLES, THE STONES, LED, ALL OF WOODSTOCK, THEN TO THE RISE OF ROCK N ROLL, THE BIG HAIR 80'S, THE GRUNGE OF THE 90'S, AND SOMEWHERE BETWEEN BIG HAIR 80'S AND 90'S HIP HOP WAS QUIETLY GROWING THROUGHOUT THE STREETS. (OH YEAH, SOMEWHERE COUNTRY MUSIC WAS IN THERE BUT IT IS SO GOD AWFUL THAT IM HOPING THAT IT WILL JUST DIE OUT ALL TOGETHER.)  THEN UNFORTUNATELY, SOMEHOW BANDS LIKE THE JONAS BROTHERS, JUSTIN BIEBER, AND LADY GAGA BECAME FAMOUS. HOWEVER, TRENDS DIE OUT, BUT IT SEEMS THAT CERTAIN BANDS CARRY A VIBE THAT IS STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO SOME OF THE GREATEST BANDS OF ALL TIME. SOME EMERGING BANDS, LIKE MUMFORD AND SONS, A DYNAMITE BAND WITH A VERY BOSTON-IRISH ESQ  SOUND, BRINGS BACK A SOUND OF MUSIC FROM WAY BEFORE I WAS BORN. THERE MUSIC MAKES ME THINK OF THE TIME ERA THAT GANGS OF NEW YORK WAS PORTRAYED IN. NEXT, THE BLACK KEYS, A TWO MAN BAND, WHO BRINGS BACK THE HARD HITTING DRUMS AND THE ROUGH GUITAR THAT SOUNDS SIMILAR TO JIMMY HENDRIX DONT YOU THINK? THESE BANDS ARE SENDING THE WAVE OF MUSIC BACK TO THE BANDS, NOT SOLO SINGERS WHO LIP SYNC EVERYTHING. BUT THE ERA OF ROCK N' ROLL IS COMING FULL CIRCLE AGAIN WITH BANDS AGAIN LIKE MAS, THE BLACK KEYS, ARCADE FIRE, KINGS OF LEON AND MANY MANY MORE. IN MY OPINION JUSTIN BIEBER (AKA AARON CARTER WANNABE), AND THAT FREAK LADY GAGA ARE MERE FADS, AND THERE IS NO WAY THAT AS A SOCIETY WERE BEING SWAYED TO A STYLE OF MUSIC THAT IS MORE CONCERNED ABOUT IMAGE RATHER THAN THEIR ACTUAL MUSIC.