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.
“Far-out Johnny well I heard him say, stretched out back on the waterbed...”Bluegrass music is a thing of the past and the SAME for Rockn’Roll”.. So I loaned him 2 or 3 dollars and gave me the LATEST news and left me here with a Rolling Stone and the Steamboat Whistle Blues!
I’ll tear off down the river some day before I’m through and come back here and pick it out with the Steamboat Whistle Blues...
John Hartford “The Steamboat Whistle Blues” 1971. What goes around comes around and the industry has NO clue except the dollars they rake in and royalties they shouldn’t be getting.
Great song about the constancy of REAL America, and real life and the bearers of REAL history:
With Kissimmee native Vassar Clements then genius legendary fiddle player who once worked at Kennedy Space Center!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNS_QB76WU
“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.
Rock and roll is definitely tied to the Baby Boomers. As you said, it won’t die in an absolute sense but it will become a niche music and it will also be created. Just not in the amount that it was 20 years ago.
Most of us don’t tap our toes to what our grandfathers did, so this is normal. It’s called the Great Forgetting.
Go into any guitar store and watch what the kids play…
Classic Rock will certainly outlive the original fan base by a few generations
However it will almost certainly continue to decline like all
Music genres
In truth, 'modern' classical music is now in the realm of movie soundtracks - the Lord of the Rings soundtrack was the biggest classical-style seller in the past 25 years. The work that Has Zimmer has done for many films is another great example.
I hope Little Steven and his comrade Bruce both die of TDS.
I think, more to the point, that nobody will be skilled at making it. Even the retro tribute bands are only playing other people's music. Who is going to create the next rock band with new songs? I'm not talking about new songs from old bands, I'm talking about new bands with a rock sound.
-PJ
All the good rock music has already been made.
I was thinking more or less the same thing.
I think "Rock" said pretty much everything there was to say.
I can imagine a band making new Rock around themes protesting our cultural and political problems.
The lyrics would have to be very abstract and oblique, or else it would get shut down.
There are so many "elephants in the room" to make protest music about.
#2 Homer Simpson
Grand Funk Railroad, Homer’s Favorite Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXKmsvRXE4A
Rock attained perfection in 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqfXlIq6RE
Rockin Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyy7ERnky9g
It’ll Happen To You! (The Simpsons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrfhsxxmdE
Simpsons Boston Reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjiyq25crAQ
“t will become like Classical Music. People will still listen to it, but nobody will be interested in new stuff.”
Interesting observation. I think Classical Music can’t be done today because the centuries ago composers were more isolated, couldn’t listen to recordings, and thus were able to make music that was more a result of their individual creativity rather than what they heard from others. Those conditions are hard to come by today.
Back then if you wanted to hear music, someone had to play it for you, or you played it yourself.
Also, once upon a time composers sought to make music that was “beautiful”. That’s what their audiences wanted to hear. Ain’t that way any more.
Maybe music isn’t infinite. Maybe all of the good stuff has already been done.