Gretsch Guitars spotlights The Trouble With Boys performance at Abbey Road
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 And now for something completely different... 

What do you call three boys and a girl, of apparently junior high age, who do Beatles as punk, claim Joe Strummer for a hero and The Clash, The Beatles, and The Who as influences – who play with precision, power, and confidence, stand and strut with the inyerface attitude of rockers born to it; who command the stage and connect to the audience; and who rap blithely about their new CD and their merch table between songs?

I call 'em precocious, impressive, and off to a head start I could only imagine at their age. They call themselves, most intriguingly, The Trouble With Boys – and I see a bright future for every member, either as a group or individually. (Provided, of course, that they grow up strong and straight and true.)

You hear them do "My Generation," and you think about rockers who did die before they got old, the rockers who blessédly didn't (and I suspect Pete has changed his mind about that lyric). If you're of an age that you first heard the song when you were abouttheir age (and many of us watching and grinning and shouting along are), you have to wonder what the 13-year-olds think of us old guys who haven't died yet and got out of their way.

Whatever the answer to that, I found it somehow reassuring that the torch passes to succeeding generations and that they respect and connect with the same music.

Nother words, The kids are alright. 

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