as a 49 year old musician who started playing
in 1961, who went though the Rock Era, and who has continued to listen, to learn, and to play, I want to submit my humble opinion that Rock as we knew it, IS DEAD. It died in the late 1970's; The music being injected to us today by Radio and TV is simply BAD; Singers who can't sing, songwriters who can't write songs, TV-film producers with demented freakazoid minds, well, 21st Century Schidzoyd Man is here gentlemen and ladies,
some prophecy!
This is the reason people are going back to
the Napsters/Morpheus/Kazaas, looking for the OLD music, the GOOD MUSIC, REAL Music, not today's trash, ("garbage" in French).

So you don't agree with me? Fine, Democracy
is Beautiful, isn't it? Am I too old you think? Not old, but WISER.

eh....... the new Michael Schenker CD is going out in a few weeks. Rock is not dead as long as Schenker does not die.

To the person who started this thread....Dude you are old and out of touch sorry to tell you. You sound like my Dad saying Led Zepplin was noise when I was a kid. Nothing good after the late 70s? That would make you 28 at the time when most people stop opening their eyes to new music. Probably when New Wave hit you closed your ears.....

The 80s had some great bands Replacements, Jane Addiction, the 90s...come on just awesome....Buy Nirvanaa unplugged and if you want to hear a guy who wrote GREAT lyrics thats it. Guys who can sing? go buy Radiohead - Bends about 1998....A voice of an angel. Or better yet buy the new Coldplay or the Late Tim Buckly who died in 1995 at 28?....voices of angels.......

You dont buy music anymore and probably hear KRock and turn it off. Radio is bad today as it was in 1975 with bands like Kansas singing Dust in the Wind.....

Im not as old as you but Im getting close at 40....

Dude is that guitar rock? Well turn it up!

Commericalism has destoryed popular music, Rock and Country both. I don't think Jazz or some of the smaller selling genere's have been affected as much but to a degree them too. Radio & Mtv are no different than Burger King or MacDonalds. They are selling a cheap mass produced product. But that doesn't mean you can't find something better out there if you know where to look.

College radio usually annoys me as well. Here you have the same effect but for the opposite reason. Bands get played because they are unknown, not because they are any good. I really wonder if this type of person listens to the music or just collects 7" records. But to be fair, you have a better chance of hearing someone with talent on a college station than on one of the "Z rock" corporate stations.

/rant

I've been just about every kind of musical snob you can think of; BebopSnob, ArtRockSnob, to name a few. The only type of music I'm predjudiced against anymore is that which falls under the heading of "Gutless Cheese".

I hear all kinds of stuff I dig on college radio, as well as stuff that's despicable. College radio is where I discovered Wilco, Son Volt, Lucinda Williams, Radiohead, and countless others.

Man, I can't close up my ears because it's not still 1974! Humble Pie doesn't do the Forum any more. But there's great stuff out there, all ya gotta do is dig a little and keep your mind and ears open! We had to wade through the crap in '74 and we still have to!

Rock is alive and well, IMO.

I was just listening to Wilco They are playing here tonight but it's sold out. I saw them a few years ago on the Guinness tour with Billy Brag but I didn't care for that too much. I'm not a big Billy Brag fan. But I recently heard the Tango Hotel Foxtrot disk and liked it so much I went out and bought Being There and SummerTeeth as well as Son Volt's Wide Swing Tremolo <<< now there's a title that belongs on this board.

I agree about the gutless cheese, Creed on SNL last weekend for example. The guitar player had wedge monitors setup so he could stand there with his foot on them doing his best Rock God pose. He was the only one with vocal monitors and didn't even have a mike. I have nothing against stage props (Rob Zombie is keeping the KISS thing alive and good for him!) but how boring can you get?