Jacob has a very eclectic taste in music. He’s only thirteen and already he’s a musical snob. He knows what he likes and hates what he doesn’t. There is no middle ground with him. Fortunately, he has very good taste in music. Of course, isn’t it ironic that I call him out as a snob and yet it’s perfectly acceptable for me to be so judgmental? No, it’s not. I am not an ironic person.

While helping me make dinner and do the dishes tonight he popped in Led Zeppelin. He discovered Led Zeppelin because he really likes the White Stripes and the reason he likes the White Stripes is because I turned him onto them.

(Which is not to say that he likes everything I like. I like Pearl Jam and Nirvana, but when I shared those with him, thinking he would really like them, he just wasn’t interested. He likes a few Nirvana songs and I think he’s warming to the rest, but on the whole he’s not a fan. I got a couple Kings of Leon for Christmas and after listening to both, I decided it wasn’t his cup of tea. I didn’t share it with him because I had already made the decision he wouldn’t like them. When he heard me playing them in the car he asked if he could put them on his iPod. So, I guess I just don’t have a clue. Is the point of that story.)

But I digress. So, where were we? Oh yeah. The point is, he likes the White Stripes and I commented one day when he had them on the that they reminded me a lot of Led Zeppelin. He said, “Who?” I said, “Shhh Shhh. Don’t say that too loud. They’ll come and take you away.” I let him listen to some and he loved it. I got him the anthology for Christmas.

He rinsed while I washed and we started talking Led Zeppelin and the similarities between the bands in the songs as they came on. He said, “You know what I think? I think all these good, new rock bands are the reincarnation of all the classics. They’re just born again to rock out.”

“So, when the old bands died, they became reborn as new rock bands?”

“Yeah, that’s what I think.”

Well, that would explain why the old bands suck when they try to reunite as well as all the similarities in music stylings, yes? They are actually already musically dead and they just refuse to lay down and accept it.

Keith Richards, I’m looking at you.