Posted on 12/06/2024 8:47:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
I listen to his Sirius/XM channel some.
and the bands are?
There are youtube videos blaming technology for making it easy to make music. They are all using the same samples so the music sounds the same.
In the olden days it was people making music with their instruments and a few microphones and a singer who could actually sing and not lip sync.
Today it is sterile as tech smooths everything out.
A snip snip here a snip snip there.
Rick Beato
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The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZ0OSEViyo
The amount of tech used to make a music is amazing.
The Real Reason Why Todays Music Is Starting To Sound The Same
Freaking Out With Billy Hume
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZgPKGVJrdc
“His band never ‘ruled the roost’... Far from it. They were just a semi-interesting costume band with a few hit songs.”
I was mid-20s when KISS arrived on the scene. The radio stations I listened to (FM) never played a single KISS song. I never knew anyone that bought a KISS album, and nobody I knew ever mentioned KISS.
Back in the day they were a band for 13 or 14 year old males. That was ok, but for anyone out of high school they just didn’t exist.
BTW, the film ‘Detroit Rock City’ is pretty funny, about adolescent boys who idolize KISS, trying to get to one of their concerts.
:: complain that he and his retired boomer cohort no longer run the show ::
And there it is, another chance to bash the generation that changed the direction of American society, thank you very much.
Can you say “millennial weenie”?
Boomers gave millennials the chance to build on their successes.
All that happened was victimhood and nanny-state worship.
Bkmk
Saw them last month, show was awesome.
I subscribe to SiriusXM because of all the driving I do. Channel 33 is called 1st Wave and it plays new wave. They play this song often.
The only person I pay money to see is Alice Cooper. He always has an excellent performance.
thx...
Not only was Jesus betrayed by a KISS, he'd even warned everyone that the Stones would cry out.
He gets the last laugh though with stacks of the sketchy AMP Bible version.
You just watch... people will try to block their ears!
No. Gene Simmons is right. I can hardly think of a good rock band from the last 25 years. Where are they? All anybody can name are obscure bands nobody else has heard of. There really is no radio airplay of modern rock. There are tons of classic rock stations....because shock shock, people actually LIKE rock and want to hear it. But the music industry decided on their own at least a couple decades ago that they were just going to deny the audience what they wanted to hear and they were going to push insipid pop and (c)rap influenced music instead. A lot of country acts then slid over to somewhat fill the void such that modern country is a whole helluva lot more like light rock than the country music from 30-40 years ago was.
And I’d rather hear Petra’s God Gave Rock n Roll to You any day over Kiss’ version.
“Well, basically, I just started out to lead [an interview] with the most insulting question I could think of. Because it seemed to me that the whole thing of interviewing as far as rock stars and that was just such a suck-up. It was groveling obeisance to people who weren’t that special, really. It’s just a guy, just another person, so what?”
Lester Bangs - 1982
That has to be the best description of most modern country I have ever heard. That should be a term sued world wide.
The artist Five Times August has put out a great protest music video calling out all the artist who sold out during Covid including KISS. If you haven’t seen it, it is worth a watch….the video adds to the song in my opinion.
It’s my favorite song from FTA.
https://rumble.com/v3nptyg-aint-no-rock-and-roll-by-five-times-august-out-now.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
PS…i was a KISS fan back in the day(hello 8 track tape) but Gene sealed my disdain when he demonized the unvaccinated.
Like you, I grew up with rock & roll long before it became “classic”. If I ever gave it up, what would I be giving it up for? The FM radio stations we had in Detroit were the best: 99.5 WABX, 106.7 WWWW (”W4”) and 101.1 WRIF. Plus, there was 88.7 CJOM in Windsor, Ontario. Yeah man, we sure had it good back then.
My first thought was this song and video, where Lenny Kravitz declared Rock & Roll is Dead nearly 30 years ago. I feel so old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8_5OYKQNA
It’s not dead, but young people don’t limit themselves to one genre of music now.
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