My son doesn't follow the Alembic club or just about anything else on the web. He and the guys with whom he is living don't even have an internet connection at home and must go to the school library or a coffee shop in order to even check their e-mail. He's of a generation that believe that the web is pass?.
It's interesting in that although he will text, he appears to have been born about a generation too late. His musical tastes run from the Dead, Neil Young, and the Allman Brothers to Sonny Rollins, Coltrane, and Charlie Parker. He convinced me to let him take my 30-year old Thorens turntable from the early 70s to school with him and he's more likely to be playing LPs than listening to MP3s or CDs. The house in which he lives (which has the nickname on campus of the condemned house) actually still has framed posters of the Dead, Santana, Janis Joplin etc. that look yellowed enough to have been placed there by former students in the 1970s.
The good thing about all of this is that father and son have very similar musical tastes and to tell you the truth I can't wait for him to get home later this weekend so that we can play together over his thanksgiving break.
