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God I loved to listen to Peart. And Copeland. Yes, Rich too (recordings). (and I like In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby, probably more for nostalgia than anything.) But new material ended for me in the early 80's with the me-too junk. Even with the good stuff I felt a bit weird watching closely while friends went for beers or other, but I played myself and loved getting into the things that worked. I'm not sure solos are as easy to enjoy - to forgive the rough spots - if you can't thrash about in your head.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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