I decided to not put this in the "music" thread because it will get lost in the shuffle. I have been turned on by a new band. Greta Van Fleet is the name. Formed by three Brothers from Michigan, their sound just SCREAMS Led Zeppelin. The lead singer even sounds like Robert Plant. They range in age from 18-21 and these guys are AWESOME! I gotta shout out this band. Their debut album drops later this year. If you are a LZ fan, look up their Safari Song. It is incredible.
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Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
Clint EastwoodComment
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Rock and Roll hasn't been dead at all. It just doesn't get radio play anymore.Comment
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They actually released 2 albums last year.
Black Smoke Rising (4- 2017)
From the Fires - (11-2017)Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
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Agree with Dwight that Rock N Roll never died. It just evolved in a billion directions and stopped getting mainstream coverage.
Another band you guys might be into is King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. If you can forgive the goofy name they're a pretty awesome psychedelic rock band that is also very prolific.
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Traditional sense? What does this mean? Who's tradition, generationally? The people who grew up with Elvis, Bo Diddly, Chuck Berry...... all the music from the mid-late 50s....... don't recognize the music of the mid-late 60s as rock and roll. Those who grew up with the music of the 60s don't necessarily recognize the 70s the same way. It's changed with each generation. Tradition depends on who's window we're using. Rock and roll is a different genre than rock, hard rock, metal, alternative, etc.
How music is sold and marketed has changed, as has demographics. Radio has always marketed to the teens - 20 something demographic. That demographic covers significantly more choices of of genres than in decades past.
Rock and roll, in the traditional sense, hasn't been produced in decades. Rock and other genres, on the other hand, still thrive as ancestors.Last edited by surveyor; 01-30-2018, 08:43 AM.Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
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It does seem that rock has been replaced a little on the spectrum of cool.
Radio airplay isn't a good barometer of anything and hasn't been for years. Even independent radio is dictated by the whims of its producers, who by and large aren't going to be people who bring in strange stuff just because they dig it. They'll play the stuff that their listeners want to hear rather than anything cutting edge. (College radio is probably an exception. WKU has a really good station that will play things you've never heard.)
So you don't hear a lot of rock anywhere, and when you go to rock-only stations on Spotify and Amazon what you see there are bands that were popular years ago. I clicked on an Amazon Music station just last week to hear some rock and the playlist was right out of 2003. Rock seems like a genre in stasis.
There are probably all kinds of reasons for this, but I chalk some of it up to how computers have infiltrated the music industry. If you can put together an album without leaving your home on your laptop, then the high-production assault that rock kind of depends on doesn't make much sense. I can think of a bunch of records that sound like rock in some ways but were made by a couple of guys on their laptops. It's a much more diluted sort of rock, and while I like some of it I kind of agree that it would be nice to see a good, popular rock band again.Comment
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Radio airplay has been replaced by music services like Pandora, Spotify, etc. as well as Sirius. The only time I listen to the radio for music is during drive time and then it's a relatively short amount. Of a one hour one way trip, perhaps 10 minutes, or 2 songs on average. The rest is sports talk, local radio (Tony and Dwight in the evening) or B & T in the morning.Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
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Oh Bob and Tom! Where have you gone? You used to be great. You are a shell of yourself now.
"Rock" today is a mash up of prog/nu/alt/metal and it's just not very good. When I speak of traditional rock, I am talking about those bands who were heavily influenced by the Chuck Berry's of their time. If you listen to some of those obscure Led tracks, you can hear it. Boogie With Stu, Black Country Woman comes to mind and I'd bet when they came out people were talking about how "old" it sounded. Of course I was too young for that then as I was digging The Bee Gees and KBilly's Super Sounds of the 70's
. The rock we hear today has zero influences whatsoever which is why when a band like GVF come along that makes me stand up and take notice.
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