Good rock is certain Country these days.
I can’t stand Kiss, but he is right about this.
Rock never dies. It just sleeps for a very long time and eventually wakes up again.
thanx.
I thought rock was dead.
He sure jumped thru a lot of hoops to show rock isn’t dead for some people.
His wife is so hot he has earned the right to say anything.
Looks like Gene struck a nerve.
I listen to classic rock on the radio. And the rock bands that I see at Red Rocks have got musicians who are in their 40s, 50s, or 60s. WideSpread Panic is the best rock jam band on planet Earth and their lead guitar player has throat cancer. Everything on Classic Rock radio stations is at least 20 years old. I don’t consider Taylor Swift to be Rock Music. Neither Bellie Elish. Rock seems to have moved to the rest homes. I would listen to Kid Rock. Is he in his 40s or 50s?
His band never ‘ruled the roost’... Far from it. They were just a semi-interesting costume band with a few hit songs.
Simmons isn’t my thing anymore because he’s a libtard. But he is absolutely right... Rock is dead. And the moron offered Pearl Jam that Rock is still alive?
Simmons swatted that away like a fly. They were formed almist 35 years ago.
Name one rock band today that can fill an arena, much less a stadium. There is no Who, Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Kiss, Foghat, Thin Lizzy, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Deep Purple.
Now it’s all autotuned pop song and dance acts.
What has happened is that certain bands are struggling with the concepts of (1) the creative tank running dry, and (2) that being a commercially successful band means that they can only pose as anti-establishment, one of the defining characteristics of rock, and in fact have inevitably become what they professed to despise. Or failed and are past gone under.
The torch can be passed if certain fists can be persuaded to open. I recall an epic 2007 Crossroads concert wherein rock dinosaurs Jeff Beck and Vinnie Colaiuta featured a 20-year-old bass player named Tal Wilkenfeld. When Beck passed, she said, "Jeff, thank you for believing in me before anyone else did. You stood behind me and told everyone to take me seriously." That's what needs to happen.
If I’m going to crank up the music to 11, even at my old age, I tune in to classic rock. I love my old 70s music and will not give it up.
Most of the Rock innovation is in the past, that’s true, but the music as a performance art will live on for as long as people wish to hear it. Same as with baroque classical music, much made in the 1700’s or earlier.
I for one, will never tire of hearing the 6 or 7 Brandenburg Concertoes, when I’m in that kind of mood. There is room for all of it, when someone wants/needs to hear it. There is even enough room for something like Afternoon Delight! Ever heard of it?
Long live rock
Be it dead or alive
What, electronic “music” and autotune aren’t real rock?
Pat Boone, the King of Rock and Roll, is still rocking!
Just as Classical Music isn’t dead, but people are just listening to the classic, like Beethoven and Mozart.
It’s the same with rock. People will always be listening to The Beatles, Stones, Who, etc., but nobody cares about the new stuff, it’s all pretty much been done by now.
We used to listen to rock music to annoy our parents.
Now we listen to rock music to annoy our kids.
Who’s Gene Simmons again?
In Russia, Rock says Gene is dead...
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