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Gene Simmons Says Rock Is Dead. He’s Clueless
UltimateClassicRock ^ | December 4, 2024 | Bryan Rolli

Posted on 12/06/2024 8:47:31 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 12/06/2024 8:47:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Good rock is certain Country these days.


2 posted on 12/06/2024 8:53:44 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The ACLU's Chase Strangio, a woman with a beard, argued that two-year-olds should be castrated.)
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Chris Stapleton is pretty good.


3 posted on 12/06/2024 8:55:29 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The ACLU's Chase Strangio, a woman with a beard, argued that two-year-olds should be castrated.)
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Do they actually have Country Music these days?


4 posted on 12/06/2024 8:55:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I can’t stand Kiss, but he is right about this.


5 posted on 12/06/2024 8:59:26 PM PST by imabadboy99
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Last I checked it was all the same song with the snapping fingers.


6 posted on 12/06/2024 8:59:48 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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Rock never dies. It just sleeps for a very long time and eventually wakes up again.


7 posted on 12/06/2024 9:00:38 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: nickcarraway

thanx.
I thought rock was dead.
He sure jumped thru a lot of hoops to show rock isn’t dead for some people.


8 posted on 12/06/2024 9:01:28 PM PST by stylin19a ("If You Can Read This, Thank a Teacher. If You Can Read It In English, Thank a Veteran" )
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His wife is so hot he has earned the right to say anything.


9 posted on 12/06/2024 9:02:19 PM PST by nwrep
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Looks like Gene struck a nerve.


10 posted on 12/06/2024 9:04:45 PM PST by Yardstick
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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?


11 posted on 12/06/2024 9:06:43 PM PST by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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His band never ‘ruled the roost’... Far from it. They were just a semi-interesting costume band with a few hit songs.


12 posted on 12/06/2024 9:08:05 PM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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Do they actually have Country Music these days?

No, it has morphed into “Hick-hop” music.

13 posted on 12/06/2024 9:08:12 PM PST by dznutz
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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.


14 posted on 12/06/2024 9:10:04 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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I don’t consider Taylor Swift to be Rock Music. Neither Bellie Elish.

Why would you ever confuse those two pop music singers with rock and roll anyway?

15 posted on 12/06/2024 9:10:27 PM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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Rock is most certainly not dead, but the business behind what was, is decidedly moribund. Joni Mitchell's "star maker machinery of the popular song" has been end-run by technology leading to decentralization, decorporatization, and a field far more open than the one that made - who were they now, Kiss? - a household word if you happened to be in that sort of household. Meet the vast creative chaos that is the Internet. The world has changed.

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.

16 posted on 12/06/2024 9:14:40 PM PST by Billthedrill
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he outta know...his band helped make a caricature of rock bands. Looking back, they were down right silly.


17 posted on 12/06/2024 9:19:46 PM PST by basalt (he "legacy")
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I’ve always argued that if KISS played their music without the make-up, no one would listen to them.


18 posted on 12/06/2024 9:28:53 PM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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White boi rap.

All they both talk about are guns, prison, sex, drugs, alcohol and Cars(Trucks)


19 posted on 12/06/2024 9:30:47 PM PST by SPDSHDW (Execute Order 66....)
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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.


20 posted on 12/06/2024 9:31:12 PM PST by CFW
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