In reality, most of those guys ended up taping the record off of me. I love listening to epic sounding records. I love seeing a band that puts on a show. Even while the 90's flooded the market with plaid shirts and simple stage sets, bands like Aerosmith and The Rolling Stones remained top concert draws. This is because I am not alone.
People like to see a show.
Grunge was a pleasant distraction, but there comes a time when you want to be in a huge room as the lights slowly dim and the first chord of a Les Paul Guitar played through a stack of Marshall cabinets hits you square in the chest. We want to see someone with a fairytale lifestyle walk out from behind a curtain and scream out a line that we've heard a hundred times at our parties and on our radios. We love to sing along, jump up and down, throw our fists in the air and cheer ourselves hoarse at the completion of each 3-minute opus. Because in the end, it's entertainment and we all want to be entertained and escape our dull little lives for a couple of hours.