great band , yeah we forget ..... there was so much great music back then .................. i do do think this gen are pushing ****e up hill trying to do new great music ................... but some have managed to do it .
I think the "manufactured" music industry has killed off a lot of creativity.
Great music is usually a collaboration within a group of artists. Groups do not seem to happen any more. With the TV shows like Idol etc, music has become more a "me" thing than a "we" thing.
If the great bands of the 60s, 70s and 80s were starting off today I doubt they would get past first base. The Stones have said as much as well as Joe Walsh.
True. There's going to be a generation saying, "Man, you should hear my grandpop's music collection, it rocks!
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True. There's going to be a generation saying, "Man, you should hear my grandpop's music collection, it rocks!
There already is. My kids (26 and 23 yo) reckon we had the "best music."
Had a large round the campfire all in music night a while back. The kids that had a go were all singing and playing songs from the 60s and 70s.
The main issue in the last 10 - 20 years has been manufactured pop. A small group of muso's write 99% of the stuff and it is offered out to the record companies. That's why the last 20 famous late-teenage chicks all sound the same - they don't write their own songs!
It is too easy, record company gets 2 - 5 cute chicks who can sing and dance, all the songs are written for them, and bam! licence to print money for a few years then do it again with a new group.
Those who learn to play, write stuff and make a band are very rare and it must be so hard for them.
And then - where is the innovation now? Techno, rap and metal / hard rock have sounded the same for a good 20yrs.
All the BIG things that changed stuff was about then ...... Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1990 ish. Dr Dre with groundbreaking rap 1992. Techno progression in 1990 - 1994 ish. Then stuff-all for the next 20yrs, just same sounds.
