Dear Classic Rock Stations...all of you.

Well,let me start off by saying that while I, in some perverse way, enjoy hearing the term Rocktober, making a point to check in every Tuesday for your Two for Tuesdays throw down (because man cannot live on just one Styx song), the daily six 'o clock Stoner (because I Can't Get No Satisfaction if I don't hear Start Me Up at least 3 times a week) and the nightly Get the Led Out hourly programs, I have become a little disturbed by the increased play of the bands Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden et al. Bands that were the soundtrack of a life during Jr. High and High School.I didn't get the memo...when did I become classic rock?

Now that I am 4 years into 30's, I don't feel old.In fact I still like to follow my kid beliefs. Maybe that's not such a good thing (dating girls that are somewhatyounger than me, drinking on a Wednesday...afternoon, using more white man Ebonics than actual correct vernacular), but you don't have to rub my face in it. There is nothing more encouraging than hearing Nirvana at the top of the hour after a triple shot of Steely Dan. That's not cool man and a tad ironic I say. Just because there are kids out there who have said to me they've only heard of Pearl Jam because they're dad used to listen to them all the time... a party foul is still a party foul, not matter who's doing it.

Look, I'm a rational man.I know that you can't stay young forever, that at some point the Vans will have to be replaced with business casual shoes that you got on sale at Kohl's, the pain in my back will become a frequent point of conversation, my 401(k) will need to be looked at daily, I may have to rock a bedtime of 10:00pm because I have early morning meetings and that there may be a deeper underlying meaning behind the fact I caught myself starting to fall asleep during a Brother Ali show at the Fox Theater (I say boredom, or Mono).But it doesn't have to be now and you don't have to perpetuate the situation.Can you just back off for a bit? The boomers still have a huge need to rock out with Kiss, Foghat, Van Halen, Bon Jovi.They don't need to hear any of that "new sh*t".

You want to rock those tunes in ten years time, I'm fine with that.Rocking them now only feeds into an already fragile ego that found a few gray hairs, is finding sensibility in Fox News and recently bought Peter Cetera's greatest hits on CD because he really digs that song of his that was on Karate Kid II.