Velvet Revolver

and pig races at the OC Fair. I admire Velvet Revolver for their courage: doing that comeback thing is nearly impossible for anyone - only Ozzy Osbourne, the fall-ass-backwards-in-fame-and-fortune par excellence, seems to have done it with assured success - and yes, Velvet Revolver's new songs are pretty disappointing, but still they're putting themselves out there and toughing it through. The result? Most of their fans seem to want to hear them play just covers. Life is hard. You get all the gifts of youth only once, and that when most of us are too dumb to know how to use them.