RUSH Hemispheres (Mercury)

by Joe Nick Patoski

The trouble with kids these days is, there's damn few good wars left for them to fight. Who wants to go to Uganda or some banana republic where the work is hard and the wages low? Unh-uh. But there are hazardous side effects to the national psyche when you've gone nearly 10 years without a fight, which is why Youth digs hard rockola so much these days. There is no alternative. For the same reason, England has been a hard rock haven for twice as long as the U.S., elevating deserving home boys like E. Cochran, B. Holly, J. Hendrix, J. Thunders, y Los Ramones to their rightful pedestals of praise long before things started cookin' likewise stateside.