Out Of It Old Guy

I never thought that I would become the uncool old guy who failed to keep up with popular music. "Bah, this modern stuff sounds like two angry cats fighting in a bag. Give me Lawrence Welk any day."

Until recently, I may not have appreciated their music, but I at least had heard of the chart-topping musicians like Justin Bieber, Katie Perry, and The Black-Eyed Peas. I have now descended into full-blown Out Of It Old Guy Mode.

Rolling Stone magazine is staging its first Super Bowl Party. The Feb. 4 concert will be staged in a converted warehouse in Indianapolis, a mere two blocks from the site of the Big Game. It will feature "four of America's hottest acts":

LMFAO, possessing the #1 and #9 songs on the Billboard Top 100
Gym Class Heroes with two #1 hits and another moving rapidly up the charts
Cobra Starship whose "You Make Me Feel" is #31 on the Top 100, and
Lupe Fiasco nominated for three Grammy Awards this year

What do all these groups have in common besides a big payday in February? I never heard of them. But that's OK because I'm an Out Of It Old Guy. What else do they have in common? It will cost $1,000 per ticket to catch them at the Rolling Stone Super Bowl Bash. Now there are probably tons of Out Of It Old Guys who have the will and the means to cough up $1,000 to see, for example, the Rolling Stones. Can there be thousands of LMFAO fans who have $1,000 to spend to catch a 45 minute set of their heroes playing in a converted warehouse in Indianapolis?

Meanwhile we Out Of It Old Guys eagerly snap up tickets to the Super Bowl Game at $2,500 each even though no one knows which teams will play in it. Maybe we really are Out Of It. Those kids going to the Rolling Stone Bash at least know who the performers will be.