White Stripes and Fathers / Bread is all right by me

I once thought that my dad would like the White Stripes, so I sent him Apple Blossom. I received an e-mail the next day saying, "It sounds like they are trying to imitate this band". He had attached a song by the Beatles. I had never thought the White Stripes sounded like the Beatles or were trying to sound like the Beatles for that matter. My dad did listen to a couple off of Wilco's latest album and thought that Jeff Tweedy was trying to channel John Lennon. You might think that my dad is stuck on the Beatles and both he and my mom will probably admit that they have liked no band better than the Beatles. But one time I played Radiohead for him and he said they sounded like Bread and lent me his Bread cassette. The horrible thing...Thom Yorke DOES sound like the lead singer of Bread with an English accent. Facing a crisis, being at risk of having the image of one of my favorite bands destroyed, I made a command decision. Bread was all right. I had to say they were all right. If I made fun of them, I made fun of Radiohead. So, Bread is all right. Just like the kids.