"Personally, I really dislike truck commercial rock and that's my problem with John and Bruce. While their music may be structurally sound, how many songs do they have about "America"? It's like they know that as long as they sing about "America", they will have paycheck after paycheck after paycheck. It's not creative, its commercial crap meant to fill their wallets. I'd also put later Bob Seger into this category."

Nick, good comments, and giving it a thought, I agree. Yeah, I know it's about personal taste, but it's interesting to know what's influencing that taste.

Jerry Garcia, me neither.

Stam, you were making complete sense to me right up until your desert island list. I never woulda' guessed, except maybe Willie Nelson. Maybe our age difference explains part of it, but Nirvana is more my kids' era than yours.

Todd, if Kanye called hip hop the new rock and roll, then he's one positively moronic f'er.