Jimmy Page before I die." Indeed, for

a guitarist whose arms are bedecked in tattoos and who maintains an

aggressive schele of drinking, Kubler seems genuinely touched by the

shy queries he gets from teenagers.

"If some kid is going to take 10 minutes out of his day to figure out

what he wants to say in an e-mail, and then write it and send it, for

me to not take the 5 minutes to say, de, thanks so much — for me to

ignore that?" He shrugged. "I can't."

Yet Kubler sometimes has se買粉絲nd thoughts about the intimacy. Part of

the allure of rock, when he was a kid, was the shadowy glamour that

surrounded his favorite stars. He'd parse their lyrics to try to

figure out what they were like in person. Now he wonders: Are today's

online artists ruining their own aura by blogging? Can you still

idolize someone when you know what they had for breakfast this

morning? "It takes a little bit of the mystery out of rock 'n' roll,"

he said.