Alice makes his money touring, where industry hype doesn't mean squat, and he's been doing it for longer than most of the members of those other bands have been alive. He has a disappearing quality that used to be called "wisdom." The bands he's talking about will be forgotten history in a few years when the labels, media and industry publicists move on to new 'next big things.' It's the culture of pussification where if you're too "mean" or "loud" or "offensive" then you have no place in mass media. This celebration of mediocrity has become so PC and pervasive that bands like this are being called "rock," and they most certainly are NOT. That doesn't mean that being a pop folk/Americana band (Dylan anyone?), what they ACTUALLY are, is bad, nor did Vincent say it was. He was giving a not-so-subtle indictment of the promotional apparatus of the industry whose workers are so lazy/stupid that those bands are being "sold" as rock.
