21.   Past generations of rock fans had Elvis impersonators and Beatles tributes -- some terrible, some letter-perfect -- to help turn back the hands of time.

22.   Reinvented himself as a kind of latter-day Richie Havens, singing about the wages of inner-city sin for alternative rock fans.

23.   Promoters are betting on the same concept becoming popular with rock fans.

24.   Rock fans breathlessly awaited new albums by these acts, but especially a new Stones album because that always meant something.

25.   Rock fans find something they can relate to in musical theater and show-music fans find a relevance that had seemingly disappeared.

26.   Rock fans usually gravitate to Cabo Wabo, owned by former Van Halen lead singer Sammy Hagar.

27.   Rock fans, like evangelical Christians, offer running commentary.

28.   Rock fans looking to update their cache of seasonal CDs can stop right here.

29.   Rock fans paid what the market would bear, and were happy to do so.

30.   Rock bands like to create the illusion of spontaneity and rock fans like to indulge in it.