Like Jazz, Rock Music Is on Life Support. Is Hollywood Next?

PJ Media ^ | 09/04/2019 | Ed Driscoll

[dfwgator]

I only wish Peter and Steve Marriott could have gotten together before Steve’s tragic death.

[Olog-hai]

I thought they were in there long before Little Richard.

[dfwgator]

Not to the degree they are now.

[RedStateRocker]

My argument is that this story assumes that “The Entertainment Industry’ is the totality of music, be it jazz or rock.

Jazz and rock are fine, they are not the same as a bunch of out of touch, leftist relics of a different era. Capitol Record, or Sony or the like are not necessary any longer; that in no ways means rock or jazz, or country are dead, it just means that some once semi-useful parasites are dead or dying.

[hoagy62]

Of all the people in that list, I’ll wager Keith Richards outlives them all.

His blood is probably so full of chemicals from the drugs he’s done that viruses and bacteria die on contact.

[mmichaels1970]

Dang. I have thousands of albums. But not Fish Out of Water. I do still listen to 90125 frequently. Or Classic Yes for Starship Trooper.

[dfwgator]

I still say Tempus Fugit was Squire’s best bass line.

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

It’s not like the 60s and 70s, where everybody pretty much listened to the same radio stations, and that was the only way to learn about new music.

[kjam22]

Rock music is still there.... more or less. But it has a guy wearing a cowboy hat and singing with a twang these days.

[Yardstick]

It’s just pathetic to hear people bemoan the lack of good music when it’s just that they are too lazy to FIND it.

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Seems to me that a modern band on par with Beatles or Zep would not be hard to find if they existed.

[DakotaGator]

Indeed!

[Olog-hai]

That could be a matter of how “safe” they feel/felt to openly flaunt it.

[Alas Babylon!]

Just don’t get any tusk in the tush!

[Olog-hai]

A tune from one of the non-Anderson eras? With Trevor Horn (more known for The Buggles) on lead vocals?

[newfreep]

“M” was his business partner - Jerry Moss, IIRC.

[dfwgator]

Drama, actually I like it more than a lot of Anderson albums (Tormato, anyone?)

And actually you realize just how important Squire’s backing vocals were to Yes’ sound.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yup!

Back in the early 70’s, Don McClean sang about the “Day the music died” in Bye Bye Miss American Bye, but the real day the music died was sometime in the late 80s, early 90s.

RAP = RIP Music

[dfwgator]

I’m sure people could write symphonies like Beethoven, but there’s something about being a pioneer.

Lot of guitar players today could play better than Hendrix perhaps, but Hendrix was a creator.

[Alas Babylon!]

Do you remember Weird Al's version?