What the fuck is the deal with that band Nickelback? Why are they popular and why does every fucking radio station in the country play them? It's like someone considers them "edgy" enough for the hard rock stations but then there's also someone who considers them not too edgy so that they also get played on the non-edgy stations (like KFOG). Which means that if you listen to the radio at home or at work, you'll hear that damn song at least once an hour, then hear it on another station at the exact same time you're furiously switching channels to get away from the crap that is that band.

Shouldn't that be a sign that a band's total crap, when both edgy and non-edgy stations play them? Shouldn't that tip somebody that maybe the music is kind of lame and not that rocking? And basically, shouldn't there be somebody else out there who realizes that they fucking suck? They would of been a generic grunge back way back in '94, back when grunge was being killed by generic grunge bands, and they're still a generic grunge band. Only it's about ten years later and we should of learned by now.

Damn kids today....

On another musical note, the big news is that Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth are going to tour together. Which is funny for so many reasons. What are they gonna call it, the "Fuck You Eddie Van Halen" tour? Or, more appropiately the "We Owe Our Career to Eddie Van Halen Tour?" And if it is kind of a fuck you, considering that most of their audience is gonna wanna hear Van Halen tunes (what, you think they're gonna go to hear "Yankee Rose" or "I Can't Drive 55"?), Eddie's getting the last laugh because he'll get paid everytime they play one of his songs.

Gotta feel sorry for Diamond Dave, though. At one point, he was the biggest, baddest, kick-assingest lead singer in the biggest, baddest, kick-assingest band. Then he got in a fight with Eddie and now he's on VH-1's "Where Are They Now".

What he needs is another band. A kick-ass band. A band that flat-out fucking rocks. Hmmm......I know, Rage Against the Machine needs a new lead singer. Zach left and Chris Cornell quit, so there you go. Rage Against the Machine should hire David Lee Roth as their new lead singer.

Just imagine it, the band kicks in, lays down some furious funk, starts down with "Bulls On Parade" or "Killing in the Name of" and there's Diamond Dave, hair flying, wearing those tight, buttless leather chaps and scarfs, belting out "Killing in the name of! Some of those that were forces are the same that bore crosses....Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" or "Rally round tha family, pockets full of shells/Rally round tha family/With pockets full of shells."

As the Sports Guy on ESPN.com would say, THIS MUST HAPPEN.