I Can't Get No Satisfaction...well for a price

There's going to be some banging go on next week on Days of Our Lives--courtesy of the Rolling Stones.

In the latest novel attempt to market their new disc, A Bigger Bang, the geriatric rockers are going to debut the video for "Streets of Love" on the NBC soap opera next Tuesday.

In addition, the song will also be used as the soundtrack for some ‘Days’ scenes in weeks to come.

Just shoot me.

How more watered down can this get? Isn’t it bad enough that I get to listen to Santana and Phil Collins on the Easy Listening channel and now on PBS, there is a 2-hour special featuring “The Auatrailian Pink Floyd”? The latter basically being a cover band that in no possible manner reminds one of the actual ‘Pinksters’.

Let’s face it, folks, my generation has sold out and sold out in a big way.

Ok, granted I sold out years ago, but that has nothing to with anything.

Is it any wonder that we are a confused and a Viagra-popping Generation?

Our musical heroes have opted to follow the money trail and are now hawking everything from cars to dish soap. We are simply a media, Reality TV watching generation who has learned to opt out for the decaf and counting our calories.

Have we simply become the ‘crash test dummies’ of the 60’s?

I like to think that Lennon, Joplin and Hendrix would never have sold out. But perhaps the upside of an untimely death is you simply don’t live long enough to turn into a meandering Xerox of yourself.
It can be argued that the greatness of an individual is never more magnified than choking on a tuna sandwich or cruising the streets of Dallas in a convertible Lincoln Town Car.

Much as I would like to continue this theory, I need to catch the Tivo’d bits of the Amazing Race, America’s Top Model and an infomercial about a new lotion that makes you look years younger.

I think Keith Richards is the promo dude for that one.