I posted this before, but it's worth repeating:
If great rock music is played in the forest and nobody is hearing it, that doesn't mean great rock music doesn't exist. There still IS good new music. But where is that forest?
An old promoter once told me, in 1969 the greatest guitarist in the world was Duane Allman and he was playing the Fillmore. The greatest guitarist in the world today is in a bar playing to nobody.
Our quest, should we choose to accept it, it so get off our assez and go to the local bar, pay the $10 cover and listing to 5 new, live rock bands playing original music. 3 of the bands will be ok, one will be pretty bad, but one of them will make your heart beat faster and compell you to pay $20 for their album and a tshirt. I've done this several times and have a few CDs of unheard and unsigned bands that rock.
For those of us who can't get out...the interweb is FULL of new music. Stop listening to The Band and take a chance with that new group of 20somethings (or even old guys).
Absolutely, there is a ton of new great rock being made today by new bands. Finding it is easier than ever. But the trade off is that there will never be this huge shared experience of finding a new band at the same time as everyone else does, because radio doesn’t work that way now and music isn’t listened to that way now.
Many of these great new acts mix their music with vinyl in mind, their CDs sound great.
Freegards
The greatest guitarist in the world today is in a bar playing to nobody.Players know: The bar is Ronnie Scott's in London and the greatest guitarist in the world today is Jeff Beck. He's still under-rated because he could care less about "hit songs" - he's an artist who has cut a lot of vinyl since the Yardbirds in 1965.
