mkopec
<Gold Donor>
So ive been hearing this around the net and news media for a while now. Rock is dead or dying, or even that its already dead. I was born in the early 70s, grew up in the 80s and 90s when rock was at its pinnacle. Groups like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, just to name a few, with their singers and guitarists being household names. Tony Iomi, Eddie Van Halen, to the more recent 90s stars like Jerry Cantrell. Of course these are just the tip of the iceberg. There were many household names which drove the entire music industry, and drove kids to buy gutars and learn, to be the next generation of rockers. Think about how many electric guitars were sold because of Eddie van Halen in the 80s, how many stars were born because of Jimmy Page in he 70s or Hendrix.
So where is the modern Eddie Van Halen? Where is the Jimmy Page, the Jimi Hendrix? The Bon Jovi? there is rock bands still out there making music, sure, some even quite successful, but they are all unknowns. Who knows the name of of any one of the members of any of the 2K NU Rock, or NU metal bands unless you are REALLY a hard core fanboy?
Seems to me that these days music is being dominated by EDM and Hip Hop, with a full sprinkling of shit pop acts. Most music today is pretty much all made with DAW (Digital Audio workstation) programs which have the means of auto aligning everything to a perfect time, a perfect metronome. So you play a riff on the guitar, slightly out of time, no worries! That DAW will perfectly align it. There is no soul left in music, there is no more tight bands which practiced together for years, perfected their craft, their sound, which record shit on analog tape and while being perfectly int he pocket, not being "computer perfect" so it sounds almost fake. And take my word for it, you can tell the difference, anyone can. Even underground music like the myriad of Death Metal genres are all dominated by the DAW instead of old school practice, practice, and maybe we can too play some intricately technical shit one day. Even some of the drummers are fake. Playing on pads super soft, recording it into DAW software where they are infinitely tweaked, sped up, tweaked and replaced with real drum samples. The guitars are sometimes comprised of 20+ tracks to make one song. How do these bands even play live?
And because of this the electric guitar industry is dying. down some 30% in the past decade. No one is buying electric guitars anymore. Major companies like Gibson are in trouble, granted not just because of guitar sales but other shit decisions they made, but still.
So what do you think? Is rock dead? Never to see a resurgance? Will it come back with some new "scene" somwhere int he world like we had in the 90s and grunge?
So where is the modern Eddie Van Halen? Where is the Jimmy Page, the Jimi Hendrix? The Bon Jovi? there is rock bands still out there making music, sure, some even quite successful, but they are all unknowns. Who knows the name of of any one of the members of any of the 2K NU Rock, or NU metal bands unless you are REALLY a hard core fanboy?
Seems to me that these days music is being dominated by EDM and Hip Hop, with a full sprinkling of shit pop acts. Most music today is pretty much all made with DAW (Digital Audio workstation) programs which have the means of auto aligning everything to a perfect time, a perfect metronome. So you play a riff on the guitar, slightly out of time, no worries! That DAW will perfectly align it. There is no soul left in music, there is no more tight bands which practiced together for years, perfected their craft, their sound, which record shit on analog tape and while being perfectly int he pocket, not being "computer perfect" so it sounds almost fake. And take my word for it, you can tell the difference, anyone can. Even underground music like the myriad of Death Metal genres are all dominated by the DAW instead of old school practice, practice, and maybe we can too play some intricately technical shit one day. Even some of the drummers are fake. Playing on pads super soft, recording it into DAW software where they are infinitely tweaked, sped up, tweaked and replaced with real drum samples. The guitars are sometimes comprised of 20+ tracks to make one song. How do these bands even play live?
And because of this the electric guitar industry is dying. down some 30% in the past decade. No one is buying electric guitars anymore. Major companies like Gibson are in trouble, granted not just because of guitar sales but other shit decisions they made, but still.
So what do you think? Is rock dead? Never to see a resurgance? Will it come back with some new "scene" somwhere int he world like we had in the 90s and grunge?
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