Rock and roll is dying

We've taken every genre and made it into what we like to call the mainstream...

There's been three things that have caught my eye since 80s music... Yngwie Malmsteen and the neo-classical movement, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the short period of time when people went "Hey... what in the hell happened to blues and jazz", grunge, and Phish starting up a jamband movement by the early nineties rolled around... Those are basically the most innovations to happen... basically re-births, so what I'm expecting is, sooner or later, somebody is going to blow 50 cent and the rest off of the number one position here in the next few years.

Surprisingly, Jack Johnson has made a few hundred thousand heads turn thi year. I bought In Between Dreams a few days after it came out and so far, everyone who I've played it for has gotten the album.

 

As for JJ Cale, he's still kicking with a new album...

 

well, prog rock is still alive...that can't be ignored, that is innovative music for you!

 

rock and roll neverr dieee!!!!

 

PROOF that rock and roll is here to stay:

www.thelifepartners.com

 

Yep, it's all about what's underground. There are plenty of good bands and artists out there, it's just a matter of putting some effort into finding them. If expect to be served a bunch of great music by the television, radio, or mainstream music press, you deserve what you get.

Yeah, sometimes obscurity yields some wonderful treasures; other times, you understand why the group remains obscure!

My approach was to start with relatively well-known musicians that I dug, then turn up as much research on a group as I could on the internet, in books, magazine articles/interviews, record/cd liner notes, etc.. Who/what were they influenced by? Who did they in turn influence? Who were their contemporaries? Who did they tour with? Did members of group A also play in other groups or produce records for other groups? Keep following the trail and before you know it you'll be crawling around in the steam tunnels, delving deeper and deeper into rock obscurity...

 

I love the rock and roll is dead statement… it’s not dead, there just hasn’t been a group that’s made it mainstream in a long while. And if they did, who would acknowledge them as a “great” "rock" band, anyway; they’re mainstream! The entire rock and roll movement has almost completely gone underground, now you have to go down to a local festival, or run a search on the internet to find out who the bands are. And they’re everywhere.

I wish there were less of them in fact; I wish more would move on. More bands with the right influences fusing new elements into their music, now that would be something. I, personally, am so tired of the same old shit.

I can’t wait to see what happens around here when the approaching folk/electronica fusion hits.

 

i think real rock n' roll died with sixties... although it might've carried on into the seventies a little. but most modern music is ridiculously mediocre compared to the great rock of that era.

 

I will agree that rock is, and has been getting worse for a while now...I don't know if I would say it's DYING, but there are some bands that are just piss poor.

 

Rock-n-roll will never die--we will only age and the changes music makes will be adopted by each era...sure, the sound I heard in the 80's (Poison, Ratt, Cinderella, etc) may not be like the Slipknots, Mudvaynes, Disturbeds, etc. of today, but each generation has it's own specific style, yet the entire concept of rock-n-roll remains very much intact.

 

The current music scene is fragmenting beyond recognition.....as Yeats once said, the good lack conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity. There IS good music being made, but the crap is getting the most publicity, because those spending the big bucks are bean counters, not music aficionados.

But a revolution is brewing -- hell, it's starting to boil -- and when it blows, nothing will ever be the same.....

 

You are right. Look at it all.....Just more of the Same...........I rarely listen to new music unless its differnet like the band They Might Be Giants for example.

 

The Rock scene is crap at the moment just a few good bands out there, Hank III is one that comes to mind, but over all the major label stuff is Sh*t the idies are not far behind, no one is inspiring just playin it safe with lowest common denomiator garbage.

 

wow, like, MTV totally rocks... i mean, like, whatever they show on there is awesome!

 

God, what I would give to meet J.J. Cale. Yeah, he seems kind of tired nowadays... he was to rock what Bob Dylan was to folk, just not as well known.