I just attended the Outside Land Music Festival, in San Francisco, with my teen son and two of his female friends.  It proved to be a rare opportunity to relive my youth, experience those feelings of excitement only a 15-year-old can feel, and vicariously share it all through their eyes and the excitement they radiated the entire time.

The line-up was extraordinary and included Incubus, Black-Eyed Peas, Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, and Tom Jones, the current retro star of this generation.  And, the Welsh hipster didn’t disappoint as, at 69, he put on a show that rivaled any of the younger headliners.  The crowd of kids knew every word of every one of his songs.