This is just weird. Morbid. Unnecessary
Yeah, but their music lives on
Jazz died off as a mass genre for two reasons.
First, as Mark Gauvreau Judge wrote in his fun 2000 book, If It Ain’t Got That Swing, postwar economics and the rise of bebop as a counterforce in jazz greatly killed off the big bands of the 1930s and ‘40s, but the complexities of bop led many teenagers in the 1950s to seek out rock and roll as a simpler music style to dance along with.
Capitol Records putting the full force of their PR team behind The Beatles when they arrived in America in early 1964 cemented rock and roll as the dominant musical genre for teenage whites, as Nat “King” Cole, who helped make Capitol a dominant force in America in the 1950s, discovered to his horror when he called their flagship Los Angeles office that year and the receptionist answered “Capitol Records – home of The Beatles!”
My what a pleasant topic. “Game over man!”
Thanks to TV and the media, there was an explosion in the number of famous people starting in the 1960s. And now the first wave is nearing the end of their run.
It is weird.
At the same time thus counter culture movement is what destroyed Europe and the US.
Like the golden age of movies and the stars it created; they lived, the died, we mourned, and moved on. As far as Rock goes - at least we will always have their music...
Saw 69 year old Peter Frampton the other night, a guitar playing virtuoso.
I’ve been in 14 bands, most of which were “Classic rock”. I was talking to a bunch of guys that have been in the live music scene for many decades and one said something interesting: There was a time when all you had to do was hang a sign saying, “life music” and the people flocked to the place. Nowadays, it just might keep them away. There are just so many mediocre cover bands out there.
Since I moved to rural KY, I’m shocked at how many just plain horrible bands are playing all the summertime make-a-buck festivals. It’s one reason I don’t bother playing any more. I am thinking of starting up the old DJ thing again after I retire for a little extra money and fun. But life bands? No way. It’s simply not worth the work.
It’s amazing how long rock remained so popular compared to big band. The idea that many young people today still love fifty year old music - and it’s cool to do so, would have been foreign to my generation in the 60-s through 80-s.
On a side note, I’m developing a new appreciation for Herb Alpert and the TJB. Those guys were GOOD. The arrangements were Excellent. And the recording/mastering quality gives a lot of the best stuff today a run for its money.
I can’t believe they left Keith Moon out of the died horribly young list. :(
The article is a massaged re-write of one that was published last week and doesn’t even give credit to the original author even though the current writer stole entire paragraphs.
The coming death of just about every rock legend
https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend
And was posted in FR by yours truly here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3775742/posts
Every so often I watch the latest rock concerts on MTV Glastonbury rtc.
All the rock groups so alike, very androgynous and no catchy lyrics.
The 70’s and 80’s rock I experienced will live forever.
… there’s the litany of legends felled by illness, drugs, and just plain old age in more recent years: George Harrison, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty. …Funny how they put cult-status nobodies like Reed and Cohen in there and no mention of people such as Malcolm Young or Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister—never mind that Chuck Berry is utterly ignored.
I vote for a focused “big one” that would remove all people incapable of logical thought in H-wood. That should pretty well eliminate the vast majority of our “stars” and force a reboot which might actually produce something approaching art once again.
John Paul Jones 73
Steven Tyler 71
Ringo Starr 79
Justin Hayward 72
Steve Howe 72
Jon Anderson 74
Rick Wakeman 70
Joni Mitchell 75
The list goes on and on.
Who is author of the article Captain Obvious?
I am amazed some have lived as long as they have.
I don’t even have to read past the title to know this is one of the dumbest things that will be posted on the internet today.
there’s more good music now than ever. I can stream all day and constantly hear *NEW* bands that play music I like. I’m 58 and the music scene online is more vibrant than radio or records ever were.
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Sure the big labels and mass conglomerates, those greedy and censorious, and incompetent behemoths are nearly dead and good riddance, but the ‘music industry’ is not the entirety of music, actually they are the trailing end, indeed the excrescence of it.
Go to spotify or or Pandora, start with some musicians or bands, or songwriters you like; the world is a heck of a lot bigger, and better, than corporate A&R droids would have one believe.
Throughout history, music has changed style and tempo as a result of wars and international upheavals. What is next only God knows.
1960’s - Lots of great memorable stuff
1970’s - The most incredible decade for music in the history of mankind!
1980’s - Lots of great memorable stuff
1990’s - Some good memorable stuff
2000’s - A catchy tune here or there
2010’s - Crap, Crap and more Crap.