Well then...I'm gonna keep it short and sweet. It's not just rock music that's dying. All music is dying for the simple fact that everybody wants to be like everybody else. It's all about the money not the music. Anybody can learn to play an instrument but not many can create with that instrument. I've been playing guitar and writing songs for that last 15 years. There are like 6500 chord progressions on the guitar then add the different variations and you have an infinite playing field. I've written about 100 rock songs (from light rock to death metal), about 20 rap songs and even a few country. None sound the same and none sound like any other song that is already out there. Maybe all these bands or people just run into "writers block" or the music industry is starving for new talent. But if that's the case then the new talent needs lots and lots of money to sell themselves.
None the less, all music is dying due to the love of money instead of the love of storytelling and truth. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:58 AM, frantheman <[email protected]>wrote: > > And now for something completely different … > > “The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll” (Muddy Waters). > Sometime around the beginning of the 1950s, rock n’ roll started to > emerge (synthesising influences from jazz, blues, country and gospel) > and quickly developed into what is known as “rock music.” There > followed the creative explosion of the 60s, further development (Glam, > hard rock, progressive, reggae) as well as correctives (Punk) in the > 70s, more new trends in the 80s (such as New Wave, indie, electronic) > and some new creative impulses in the 90s (Grunge, Britpop, world > music) and then … > [Whether one sees black music/r’n’b as a sub-group within rock (with a > somewhat different cultural history and development; blues, gospel, > Motown, soul, etc.), or as something basically different to rock music > is a matter of debate (personally I tend to the first > interpretation).] > > Rock music has fractured into hundreds of genres, from Death Metal to > different varieties of techno. Hip hop (originally with a pedigree in > perceived US black alienation, now diversified world-, language- and > culture-wide) strikes me as being musically very limited. Commercial > pop remains as strong and parasitically creative as ever (contemporary > r’n’b sanitising a lot of rap/hip hop being one example), but, because > of its commercial imperatives, pop will never be really artistically > creative, feeding instead on new impulses which have, over the past > half century, usually been provided in the area known as “rock music.” > > Over the past ten years or so, I have the feeling that rock is > creatively increasing running out of steam. The scene today seems to > be dominated, as I said, by different genres and, increasingly, by > aging dinosaurs, either repeating themselves (like U2 or REM) or > parodying themselves (as the Stones have been doing for decades). > Elton John and Phil Collins are now writing musicals. There’s a lot of > good new music out there, but nearly all of it seems to be no more > than very competent variations on themes intensively explored long > ago. Has the original inspiration of three chords and twelve bars; > electric guitar, bass, (keyboards) and drums, finally been mined out? > > Or am I just getting old? > > Francis > > “When I hear the word gun, I reach for my culture.” (Malcolm > Muggeridge) > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
