Celebrating the misfits at Weenie Roast 2010  June 6th, 2010,
1:59 pm ·     Attribute that to three factors:  With KROQ titans
like Green Day, Muse, Metallica, Linkin Park and Coldplay, among
others, all unavailable to cap this roster, the night became a
de facto salute to sobering up and surviving the excesses of
'90s rock -- a concept that would have been a disaster if all
three top-tier acts weren't up to the task of engaging 15,000
sunburned and partied-out patrons.   All this might not have
been planned with so much rock-history aesthetic behind it
simply because, well, this is Weenie Roast, a promotional
vehicle as much as a thank-you party for listeners willing and
able to score tickets. The event's finish -- Love's reopened
Hole, then STP, then Sublime with Rome -- was more or less
dictated by the current music-biz cycle. The first two are
pushing new albums, not just reunions; Courtney, good for her,
seems to be mounting a long-overdue, look-I'm-not-batcrap-crazy
career rehabilitation, while Scott is