Letting Someone Else Say It

I just heard the DJ say that, these days, we have Jon Stewart on TV. In the Sixties & Seventies they had Frank Zappa records. Then they played "TROUBLE EVERY DAY" and I wondered if dial radios in broad dashboards, driving 55, and the time it takes to hold an album in your hand before you play it, like the ritual of lighting a cigarette or making love, made permanent memories and deeper politic than our funny guy Jon, who we can channel surf away from during the commercials while we shift off the tingling cheek and onto the other to let someone else say it, think it for us.
KCRW's Gary Calamar hosts Domenic Priore as guest DJ on OPEN ROAD, 3/9/08. Priore is a rock historian; his new book is RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP: ROCK N ROLL'S LAST STAND IN HOLLYWOOD.