Why Is Rock Still Dead?

And some of the 70's too lol ....I found this quite amusing

http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/News/en-us/Steven-Tyler-This-is-Spinal-Tap-0103-2013.aspx

Rolling Stone reports that former record industry executive Joe Smith has donated a large amount of interviews he has done with famous musicians to the Library of Congress. The interviews were conducted some time in the mid’80s.
One of the interviews is with Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, who talks candidly about his hard partying days in the’70s: “I can remember the height of my oblivion, I was into doing things just because I could. I would think nothing of tipping a whole long spread, and I'd be so livid – explicit – no turkey roll! Give us a turkey – no gravy, no stuffing, just real meat. No hockey pucks, no mystery meat, just a turkey.”
Does that perhaps sound a bit like Nigel Tufnel, the over the top character from the rock mockumentary This is Spinal Tap? Well, apparently Tyler thought that the movie hit a little too close to home, as he reveal in the interview with Joe Smith: “That movie bummed me out, because I thought, 'How dare they? That's all real, and they're mocking it.'"

 

that wasn't her point

 

http://youtu.be/gBRIkFKQQao

 

Didn't know conquering the world was a prerequisite for staying alive

But I hope you enjoy the Atomic Bitchwax and other stuff. As long as there's a rocking scene (or more than one even, as it's grown so big and diverse) with both an eager audience and new bands on stage it's alive and kicking imo. Especially of bands that are technically doing nothing new, but playing the stuff they dig best, and writing new stuff for a classic formula you can't expect that to conquer the world all over again and again That's one reason why there came stuff like Radiohead and Linkin Park and they made it big, something new for the people who felt rock got old. Disclaimer: not saying that's the only reason Radiohead got big

 

Thanks to digital technology, everybody who steps onto a stage is directly competing, in the listeners' minds, with every musician who has ever recorded. Intimidating, if you really think about it.

 

You got that right KarenJ...its a whole new game.

 

I Fucking hate Categories
It can rock without being called anything
Its music and will never die

 

Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c0jxooNClM&feature=youtu.be&t=36

 

I thought this band might "conquer the world" after their first album but they had kind of a sophmore slump and have yet to really recover.

http://youtu.be/B9dSYgd5Elk

 

I don't think of musicians competing. It's not like one day a musician will come along who is "the best" and that's all I'll ever listen to.

 

MGMT are pretty awesome. I am underwhelmed by their recent work.

 

It's harsher than any competition ever seen in the business world. Music fans are quite heartless and cynical.

 

1:46 - 2:41 Joni tells it like it is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSlgBIyWoA

 

Thats whats up theprodu. She really did put it like it is.

 

Its more of a competion on the listeners end. I deff. Understand where Karenj is coming from on that.

 

No it isn't. You can't get that intense over rock music. That's silly. Where are the rock and roll mafias?

 

http://www.judiciaryreport.com/music_industry_and_the_mafia.htm

[SIZE=large]The Music Industry And The Mafia[/SIZE]​

November 2. 2007​

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There are some individuals in the music industry that have long had ties with the mafia. It earned some them a bad reputation that they were never able to shake. For years many have claimed Motown was started with mob money. Motown founder Berry Gordy vehemently denies the allegation to this day. For years Frank Sinatra was accused of working for the mob. He never denied it nor did he confirm it.

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Tommy Mottola​

Tommy Mottola, the former head of Sony Music, and ex-husband of singer Mariah Carey, was the subject of a widely read, unflattering piece in Vanity Fair that flat out said he has mob ties.

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"Tommy Boy"
By Robert Sam Anson
From Vanity Fair - November 1996 ​

The news also brought a quick call to Sony from a CBS corporate officer. "Do you know this guy has a Mafia background?" a senior executive quotes the CBS man as saying. "What are you doing tainting this wonderful company you just bought from us with a guy who has a background that could make the F.B.I cringe?" - Vanity Fair

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Madonna and mafia boyfriend Chris Paciello in the 90's ​

Then there was former Miami club king Chris Paciello, who dated Madonna, and was indicted, convicted and sent to prison for 10 years on a mafia related murder that transpired in his home state of New York. Madonna's girlfriend, literally, Ingrid Caseres, reportedly even accompanied him to mob meetings, according to Gangland News.

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Madonna Ciccone, her daughter and mafioso Chris Paciello in Miami in the 1990's ​

Paciello became a prominent figure on the club scene in Miami in the 90's, making millions from two night clubs and a restaurant. Then came the indictment against him for a mob murder in New York. Gone was his money and fame to federal indictments, lawyer fees and jail. He snitched on the mob and received 7 years in jail.
Then there's the Anthony Pellicano wiretap, harassment and witness tampering scandal where writer Anita Busch was targeted:
“Los Angeles Times writer Anita Busch has been looking into the federal indictment of reputed Mafia captain Anthony (Sonny) Ciccone on charges of extortion and threatening to kill actor Steven Seagal.” - Los Angeles Times 7/12/02
There's that name again "Ciccone." Fancy that, Madonna's faking an English accent, trying to break into the English aristocracy, when she's got more mob ties than Capone. Because tea, Ascot and the English countryside go hand in hand with the mafia. Not. Madonna puts the c in common.

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Anthony Pellicano​

Anthony Pellicano worked for clients such as Madonna and Tom Cruise. The federal government stated this year that Pellicano has mob ties and tried to put a hit on an incarcerated man that worked with him, to stop him from testifying in the disgraceful wiretap scandal that has exposed several Hollywood stars and just how far they will go.
But at the end of the day, one really has to asks oneself, what does music or film have to do with crime. As a star, to venture into such territory tells the world you shouldn't even be in the business at all.

 

Hammerfall

 

The public can love you one year, and next year everybody is like, "Their new stuff sounds just like their old stuff", and you find yourself playing to crickets.

The public is the hardest boss anybody will ever work for, and that goes double for anything related to entertainment.

 

I second that motion..