| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/2/2005 6:24:37 AM | | Someone told me that Sara McGlaughlin and John Mellencamp have made comments recently declaring Rock and Roll to be dead. I have been unable to find these comments on the net. What is your opinion? Is Rock and Roll dead? | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/2/2005 8:55:41 AM | absolutely not, rock 'n' roll is about rebellion. In a society of rebels there will never be a shortage of rebellious anger.
as well rock 'n' roll has shown to be versatile and adaptable with any other music style. | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/2/2005 9:02:47 AM | | you can't kill rock and roll if you tried man there are just other bands that will keep it alive.. | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/2/2005 9:53:26 AM | | john melloncamp is either dead or old, rock is not dead... not while im alive | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/2/2005 10:43:36 AM | | Rock n roll will live on forever... no matter what form it takes. | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/2/2005 8:06:42 PM | | As I am much older than most of you and a loooong time Rock and Roller, it is good to know that people are still rocking. | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/2/2005 8:08:01 PM | NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
never gonna die.
Beethoven and Wagner were rocking centuries ago, and the tradition will continue as long as there are youth | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/2/2005 8:52:09 PM | | Rock's not dead, you just can't hear it on the radio. You have to go looking for it. | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/2/2005 10:33:22 PM | . . . Like Neil Young said: "Rock and roll will never die. . . "   | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/2/2005 10:39:05 PM | | it might morph into different forms...branch out a bit...but it will never die... | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/3/2005 10:42:23 PM | as long as a 14 year old boy can plug a guitar into an amp
and flip the bird to the world we will have rock
It is constantly brought back...............
as in music is cool and then it gets poppier and dancier and lame with no balls
and the it is snapped back to 4 dudes rocking it up this has been the case
since it was invented | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/4/2005 9:52:53 PM | Jeez... Green Day's American Idiot is as good as any that's been... they've got a megahit... won a grammy... This is a GOLDEN AGE of rock. We've got so many great groups now... so many new ones... Nobody's as big as in the days of Top 40 radio, but that's only because there are so MANY great acts out there.
Whoever said that must have been on drugs or having sex or listening to too much loud music.... | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/4/2005 11:29:37 PM | and the it is snapped back to 4 dudes rocking it up this has been the case
since it was invented
And how many times can you hear those thre chords without losing it.
I've heard enough blues-rock to last me a lifetime.
Any rock and roll today is repetition.
Rock and roll isn't dead - music is dead.
The only thing good I've heard lately is a mash-up - a huge remix of older music. | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/5/2005 12:31:48 AM | | Hyper-competitive narrow formatting driven by radio program directors and record publishing managers was the first force to kill rock and roll in the late 70's. The second force to add the finishing nails to the coffin were "music" videos circa 1982. Rock, for the performers, used to be about an all-consuming passion to play and write music. Now (always with exceptions), and for the above two reasons, it's more about positioning yourself in the marketplace and having the best hair/clothes/stage design for the latest T.V. production. | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/5/2005 12:54:19 AM | I'll agree with cira '82 stuff but you have to admit that image
has been a part of Rock-N-Roll since it's conception. Take a look
at Jimmy Page in the late 60s he was wearing jeans and a sweater
which is quite conservitive for a rocker then look at what he was
wearing in the 70s. Music videos were/are not the downfall of
Rock-N-Roll. Rock is not dead and it will never die. Rock may go
through stages of what seems to be lifeless or boring to some
but there is always a new generation discovering it.
So to answer the question, Is Rock and Roll dead? NO! | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/5/2005 1:38:10 AM | dgroove, you bring up an interesting point re Page, but the point , to me, is that nobody could tell Page and Plant how they were to represent themselves on stage. They had made it big by then, and they were calling the shots. Again, except for the supergroups of today, it's the producers, managers, programmers, marketers, agents, publicists, record stores etc... that "suggest" to the musicians what to do. By the way, on the topic of groups that have made it big and so aquire power in their direction, most of the supergroups and musicians of the 60's and 70's would either be unknown or much different in what they played if they were to be starting in the 80's to now. It was common practise for record companies to take a financial hit on a band's first two, three, even four albums in order to develop them. Now, you need the instant chartbuster or you're tossed aside. And it's suggested to you just how to make and market that chartbuster, this from musically illiterate and unsympathetic types.
Also, I agree that perhaps "dead" is a little overdramatic. I would say moribund, with flashes of life and originality until another long lapse into a coma. | |
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Posted: 3/5/2005 1:59:15 AM | I agree that now a days a band needs that instant chart buster but isn't
that the way we all live our lives today? I'm mean with emails and cell
phones life seems to be moving a bit faster than it use to. So then why
not with music? It use to be word of mouth when a band was coming
to town and we can track the progress of an album online. I'm with you
on this it does suck. | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 3/5/2005 5:25:54 AM | | God gave Rock and Roll to ya gave rock and roll to ya gave rock and roll to everyone | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 1/31/2006 8:08:37 AM | "ROCK AND ROLL AIN'T NOISE POLLUTION"
Crank up your rock radio through town and show em it's not dead!
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 1/31/2006 10:33:33 AM | I don't think it is dead, just been buried by too much useless crap (aka rap music). Although, it will never again be like it was in the 60's, 70's, but it will come back to be better than what it is today. But don't get me wrong, there is still some good rock music made today. we still have the likes of pearl jam, radiohead, neil young, megadeth, tool, etc. This is all good rock/metal music. We'll just have to wait and see if it stands the test of time, if we will be remmebering it 10/20 years from now.
It is hard to classify rock music these days because there are so many sub-genres, so I could even go further with bands/singers that would be considered rock.
long live rock music | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 1/31/2006 11:13:05 AM | Check out these bands: Brand New Sin, Fireball Ministry. Rock is alive and well. Let's just hope Rap dies. | |
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Posted: 1/31/2006 7:43:04 PM | I LOVE Brand New Sin. Those guys are killer.
I think "rock n roll" is pretty much dead. I mean, there aren't a lot of guys trying to sound like Little Richard. Rock isn't dead, but it's a different animal than rock n roll. | |
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| Is Rock and Roll dead?
Posted: 1/31/2006 10:13:50 PM | | Rock and Roll always had sub-genres. Go back to the late 60s and early 70s and you had guys experimenting with blending classical music and rock and roll. You had a group called "Gryphon" who used Medieval Crumhorns to play Rock and Roll. I think what almost killed Rock is when it became nearly exlusively Metal. | |
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