Have you watched late night TV to see those advertisements sell CD's with titles like "Groovy bands of the 60's" and "Hair Metal Bands of the 80's". No longer is a band defined by it's decade.Whether you love, hate or are indifferent about their latest musical offspring, these bands have real stamina.

One (of the many) things I'm interested in is what has been happening with these bands in the meantime. Are these iconic musicians slogging away in the studio, touring huge stadiums, or perhaps working on seperate projects? Maybe they are fortunate enough to have accumulated wealth from their earlier sales, and now can live a relatively "work-free" existance. So I optimistically guess they release more music for the pure joy of the music, and for the fans, rather than for money.

Speaking of money...

ACDC tops the Music Charts in Brittain for the first time in a huge 28 years!

Alexis Petridis, chief music writer from UK's Guardian Newspaper, speculated why the album has done so well, despite the poor global economy. "People crave something uncomplicated and dependable in a time of uncertainty, and rock music has never produced a band so uncomplicated and dependable as AC/DC."

Perhaps it is the familiarity of the music people long for. I love going to garage sales and stumbling upon a childhood toy, like a Smurf figurine, or those Nintendo Game & Watch toys, like Donkey Kong. It gives me an indescribable warmish fuzzyish feeling. And music from my youth does this too. Again, it's something hard to describe.

Is that insulting to a band? To say we only like them now, because we used to like them? Is that circular logic or whatever?

To be honest, I tend to ignore new releases of "old bands", and buy them a few years after they've been released. So I guess I do like the bands I used to like, now, but I will realise this in the future.

Reading through this blog reminds me why I prefer sitting at the jewellery bench to sitting at the computer.