Watched the MTV awards that night

Since it was a long time ago, it's easy to forget that a viewing of the Grammy's from the mid-to-late 60's and into the 70's, when Rock & Roll was firing on all 8 cylinders, will show that the awards often went to the middle-of-the-road Pop "entertainers" (The 5th Dimension, Kenny Rogers & The 1st Edition, Bobby Goldsboro, Neil Diamond, etc.), not the groundbreaking artists of the day (Hendrix, Zappa, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, etc.). Thus it has always been, and shall be forever more!

No Mapman, it can't. At least I hope not. It's real bottom of the barrel stuff, just trash. But there's always plenty of good stuff happening "underground". For my musical taste (hard country, bluegrass, roots rock, singer-songwriter), the No Depression website and newsletters are indispensable.

Ha! Yogiboy, I know some guys who constantly complain that the music they like (often British Invasion) isn't popular anymore. I gave up reminding them that their parents said the exact same thing about The Beatles (who seem to have a lot of the complainers as fans) when they (my friends) were kids. Why would one expect following generations to have the same taste as ours? We had our time, now it's theirs!