Van Zandt can't dance

I Love Music has a thread devoted to the speech that "Miami" "Little" Steven Van Zandt delivered in July to the Radio & Records convention, whatever that is. All you need to know about his reactionary, tone-deaf, and stupid rant is this paragraph:

You're gonna throw one away? You're gonna replace Elvis, Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Johnny Burnette, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Lloyd Price, and Fats Domino with, all due respect, Donna Summer and the Bee Gees? You're gonna replace primal, vital, timeless, forever cool rock and roll pioneers with disco? Disco?

It's the craven inclusion of "with all due respect" before the Summer and Bee Gees references which makes me wish a mirrorball would fall on Van Zandt's scarfed head. I suppose the last time this musical Michael Medved heard new music was in the parking lot of the disco-sucks record-burning party. Ned Raggett interjected the best line:

"I think the problem with the convenient target is how readily he sets himself up. Little Steven appears to think that his tastes are the universal and correct ones without which the world dies = he can eat shit and die from where I sit."