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Why Steven Van Zandt Thinks Classic Rock ‘Is Going to Die’
UltimateClassicRock ^ | May 23rd, 2024 | Corey Irwin

Posted on 05/23/2024 3:48:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: uranium penguin

One of the last great rock stations, KSHE in St. Louis, has a 4-hour show on Sunday mornings called KSHE Klassics. Nothing but deep tracks and forgotten gems. It’s free on their app.


21 posted on 05/23/2024 4:19:07 PM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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To: uranium penguin
I’d say classic rock is in danger largely because corporate radio stations hammering the same 20-40 songs and nothing else.from coast to coast.

I remember 1970 KSHE-95 REAL ROCK RADIO when I got and FM-Stereo adapter for my 8-track tape player.

They played entire albums.

John Barleycorn is dead.

Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed.

22 posted on 05/23/2024 4:19:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: nickcarraway

AI will produce soulless muzak that can serve as a soundtrack for people’s lives. Almost no one sits and listens anymore, so the consumers aren’t expecting much. But people are uncomfortable with silence — so some automated system of “music” which is almost white noise will replace what we’ve had for 60+ years.


23 posted on 05/23/2024 4:20:20 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: uranium penguin

Some of the classic rock is so overplayed on the radio it makes me puke. Even though I’ve played in a few classic rock bands I’m totally over classic rock. Playing it for money is one thing, but other than that I have no use for any of it.


24 posted on 05/23/2024 4:20:22 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: nickcarraway

African Wakanda Western Two-Step is the biggest new thing. Original African and Western Horsesh*t and Gunsmoke Music.


25 posted on 05/23/2024 4:20:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: dfwgator

I was a bouncer in a disco in Nashville. I HATE disco music.


26 posted on 05/23/2024 4:21:16 PM PDT by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: rktman

Technically, he is still alive on the Sopranos. I doubt there will ever be a sequel, but it is theoretically possible. Maybe Meadow as the shadow boss with AJ as the front man muscle with Silvio still as consigligiliari.


27 posted on 05/23/2024 4:23:05 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Billthedrill; All

Funny you mentioned it— but listen to this rockin’ tune from a Mongolian traditional band (throat singing difficult to do!). Pentatonic minor runs in the middle. A song about Mother and Motherhood! The Altai Band, playing for leaders of Mongolia, the Khan of Mongolia and his wife:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIRzTd_Rtqc


28 posted on 05/23/2024 4:23:44 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: monkeyshine

😂


29 posted on 05/23/2024 4:23:55 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: nickcarraway

Oy vey!


30 posted on 05/23/2024 4:23:57 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: dfwgator
AI will be creating music.

Yep, and it will be sterile and suck.

31 posted on 05/23/2024 4:23:59 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: dfwgator

“It will become like Classical Music. People will still listen to it, but nobody will be interested in new stuff.

All the good rock music has already been made.”

Nailed it.

However, as an interesting note: I have recently heard NEW opera and it was good.


32 posted on 05/23/2024 4:25:43 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: nickcarraway

I remember 1986 as being the last good year for rock. Starting with 1987, things started a slow decline. There was still some good stuff, but less and less of it each year. Have not heard a good “new” rock song in maybe 15 years.

These days, when the car next to me is blasting out Rap music at full volume, the occupants are just as likely to be white as black.


33 posted on 05/23/2024 4:27:45 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: rbg81

Why would that surprise you? Aren’t most consumers of rap white, and it’s marketed towards them?


34 posted on 05/23/2024 4:29:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: dljordan

I was the equipment guy/roadie for a mobile disco company.

When I would have to stay at the venue, it would drive me nuts.

It was useful though to be able to borrow the truck and equipment for me and my buddy to throw our own beach parties.


35 posted on 05/23/2024 4:30:53 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: nickcarraway

Ask a 20 year old who The Yardbirds were and you get a blank stare. Pretty soon you’ll get the same stare from a 20 year old when you mention The Beatles.


36 posted on 05/23/2024 4:31:20 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: John S Mosby

Thanks for posting that. Vassar Clements was about my favorite fiddler ever, though I never got to see him play.


37 posted on 05/23/2024 4:32:37 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Gay State Conservative

I don’t know. It seems like a lot of young people like old music.


38 posted on 05/23/2024 4:33:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Music made these days for the major labels is all autotuned and ROI calculated using AI algorithms.

Rich men north of Richmond was a total anomaly.


39 posted on 05/23/2024 4:33:15 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: neverevergiveup
Yep, and it will be sterile and suck.

My opinion of 2024 country music too

40 posted on 05/23/2024 4:33:34 PM PDT by llevrok (“In a time of deceit telling, the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell)
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