Rock artists, stop running from your '80s hits!

I'm reprinting this photo of Heart, because right now fully half the visitors to my blog find me via a Google image search for this picture. (Go figure?) As this blog is still in its infancy and I'm desperate for visitors, I'm not above doing whatever it takes...

I saw the VH1 Rock Honors concert tonight, and while I was really disappointed that Heart didn't play their awesome '80s hits, man, did they rock! "Crazy on You" was powerful. The Wilson sisters still have it. Now I'm sorry I didn't go see them last year, during my one-night trip to Seattle, when I had nothing to do and decided I might as well see a show. Heart was playing, but tickets were in the $50 range, so instead I headed to Chop Suey for some little known national rock band whose name I can't remember.

So Heart rocks! Unlike Genesis. That band chose to use its ten minutes on an early '80s song I wasn't familiar with, and - get this - "No Son of Mine." A mediocre, minor hit from the early '90s. Of all the songs they could have played... No Son of Mine?! That would be like Madonna playing "Bedtime Story," or Michael Jackson doing "In the Closet." It made no sense, and made Genesis look even older and more out of place than they already seemed.