If you want to see some great photographs of rock and roll icons as well as some faux icons, check out Bob Gruen's website. He has been described in the press as the rock photographer--don't miss his photos of Bob Dylan and of John Lennon. Unfortunately he doesn't sell photos online but if you live in New York, L.A., or New Orleans, you can find 'em there.

He also has some book of photography out, including John Lennon: The New York Years, available at Amazon.

Did you know that the band name THREE DOG NIGHT was inspired by an Australian Aborigine custom of sleeping with three dogs on extremely cold nights?

How about BLACK SABBATH? They took their name from a 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff. They released an album as Earth before changing their name to Black Sabbath.

For more origins of the names of the bands we love, check out this rock site.

Who knows if it's accurate--it's fun

This has nothing to do with being a Baby Boomer, but I'd still like to know, "Why Can't I Own a Canadian?"

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My elder son turns 21 tomorrow. That's a big birthday. And as all old geezerettes say, "I remember 21 like it was yesterday." Yup---my parents were old farts and I knew everything. I was an adult, by gum. Now it's his turn. I'm an old fart and he knows everything. He's an adult. Adult?? That little toddler who watched Raffi videos and napped in the hammock? Who dressed in costumes and pedaled his first car around the yard? Maybe things aren't so different after all. On his last break from college, he watched the Simpsons and napped on the sofa. He dressed in his Che Guevara tee-shirt and drove his car over the curb.

Of course, now he lives with roommates instead of parents and writes papers on Descartes instead of drawing pictures of Spiderman. I am as proud of him as when he took his first step, said his first word, got his first A. I worry about him as much as when he first went to sleep-away camp, first started high school, got his driving permit. Pride and worry---I suppose parents own these emotions all our parental lives. Oh yeah, and love.

Happy birthday, Will.

We're Never Too Old for Rock and Roll--as proven by all the aging hipsters out there making music and playing in bands. One sent us a song for your Boomer delectation. If you like it, you can check out more of Dugan and the Kendrick Road Kings.

We know there are a bunch of you old rockers out there. Let us hear about you too.

A long time ago we got email from a bone fide aging hipster. He has a great blog about "living on the flagship commune of the Seventies with its own cowboy guru, four-marriages, massive home birthings, organic sacrament-inspired agreements, and a completely home-built village in the midst of the evangelical Christian south."
Read it and reminisce (or pretend to reminisce since you probably weren't anywhere like that).

He's got some pretty good internet credentials too as former manger of THE WELL, an early online community.