Long Live Rock And Roll

Is nothing sacred anymore? Groups across this great nation, with their own ultra-liberal, change-for-the-sake-of-change agendas, regularly attack everything red, white and blue that we hold dear. From religion and what constitutes a marriage, to how much mercury-laced red fish we're allowed to eat from the Gulf of Mexico, these pseudo pundits are apparently now intent on pushing their ill-conceived ideologies on my home town of Houston, Texas. Yesterday morning broadcast radio behemoth Clear Channel Radio attacked and utterly vaporized one of the pillars of our great democracy; the freedom to ROCK! Legendary Houston rock station KLOL-FM was replaced by something called Mega 101 FM - Latino and Proud! Puhleeeeze . . . Is this the second time that the music died? Maybe a new verse should be added to Don McLean's epic tune, American Pie. After 34-years as Houston's raucous Rock Authority, KLOL has been dumped for a format labeled "Spanglish Top 40", a mixture of Spanish hip-hop, reggaeton and pop/dance targeting young Latinos between 18 and 34. What about us Boomers who still need a regular Aerosmith fix and our daily dose of ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin along with the Accupril and Zocor? The genre is good enough for Cadillac in its commercials, so why not for Clear Channel? If you're going to dump a station, dump the one that plays polka accordion music from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and then changes to Vietnamese call-in/talk from 3 to midnight. Not the station that has rocked a generation. Long live Rock and Roll!