“WTH are the REAL MEN IN ENTERTAINMENT?”
They are not allowed. Heterosexual White Males with a single shred of sexual machismo have been barred from the culture after Axl Rose used the N-Word in a song.
Trust me, I was a rock musician for 25 years and my wife worked for a major record label in New York at the time. She was in the meeting when it was decided.
People think things happen organically but they don’t. Almost over night the natural progression of rock music was cancelled and “Alternative” music was promoted.
For 30 years the music industry was funded by 16 year old girls with David Lee Roth posters on their walls. You think any young ladies have posters of the singer from Radio Head on their wall? Nope! Sexually charged white men are NEVER to be seen again.
I was wondering what happened to rock. There was new rock being made as recently as 10-15 years ago and then it disappeared. I didn’t like all of it but some was good.
And guys (it was always guys, all the most proficient and creative rock instrumentalists were men, something about that male obsessiveness when they like something, no female teenager spends their every waking hour practicing guitar, etc, the way the best male players did) back then had the discipline, the lack of distraction, whatever it was, to practice obsessively and practically eat drink and sleep their instruments, plus the creativity to move the music along. (I hate when people bring up Nancy Wilson, she was good, but she couldn’t touch the best male guitar players, and anyway it’s my understanding that Roger Fisher came up with the iconic riffs and solos in the classic Heart songs.)
Just like Peter Frampton was underrated as a guitar player because of his teen idol image, he was and is a great guitarist, playing jazz stylings in a sea of blues scales in rock.