[Rick and Roll]

I cannot improve upon what Zvinki has said - I couldn't agree more. I can only chime in with my personal experience.

Saw Tool about two years ago.....I wish it was a smaller venue. there are not many arena shows I see anymore. Not because I'm "older" (40), but because I can see shows in very intimate venues.

Tool is NOT a band that messes around. There is some banter in-between songs, but it's all about the music. No light show, no stupidity...there was just a constant strange video for each song. I really wish I would have seen them in a small place. Then again, my nerves may not have been able to handle it.

When I was in my late teens in college, I had never heard of most prog. In the early 80's there was not a real good music scene. King Crimson was the crossover. But now I really am bored with their stuff.

The only thing I can say lenron is that my son listens to what I did at 16. The only thing he's missing is bands like Tull and artists like Elton John, that were big in my "day". The kids will come around, lenron. It matters little to me who likes what.

I played Tool two weeks ago - and check out the hard rock show I will spin soon and see how these seemingly disparate "cultures" can co-exist.