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#68884 by RGMixProject
Fri May 29, 2009 6:53 pm
I'm lovin' this :D

Source: www.westword.com
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There's a disease spreading through our generation of twenty- and thirty-year-olds, a malady we inherited from our parents that's rendering us culturally stagnant. It's sapping our identity. Perhaps, most tragically, we are welcoming this plague into our homes, cars and iPods — even our karaoke parties. This cancer is called classic rock, and it needs to be stopped.

Back when your folks were young, do you think they were listening to their dad's Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller records? Hell no. They were forging their individualism through their Janis Joplin and their Beatles, their Bob Dylan and their Rolling Stones. As they grew up, they still liked to party, picking up AC/DC and Rush LPs, maybe a little Electric Light Orchestra when they got high on the weekends.

But hippie, prog and arena rock somehow still dominate the guitar-based/non-country airwaves all these years later. According to recent figures from Inside Radio, a New Hampshire-based trade publication, there are 485 classic-rock stations in the country, more than any other strain (modern, alternative, etc.) of rock and roll. Meanwhile, the top-grossing concert acts of 2008 were dominated by moldy old-timers like Billy Joel, the Eagles and Neil Diamond.

And the fault lies with the lazy listeners. As our baby-boomer parents head into retirement, we're taking over as the dominant consumers of media, and we're listening to the same crap they did.

This sad story speaks of a lack of imagination among our generation. Don't get me wrong: Anyone without a working knowledge of Blonde on Blonde and Rumours is missing out. But the 1,500th listen to "Start Me Up" really should involve some crying. Think of it this way: Probably every person sharing your wi-fi connection at the coffee shop right now knows the lyrics to "You Shook Me All Night Long," but how many of them can sing along to a single song by My Morning Jacket, TV on the Radio, Of Montreal, Wolf Parade, Neko Case or any of the other best rock artists of our era?

There are plenty of places to find cutting-edge music — and often for free. Members of the so-called Internet age have no excuse for listening to classic rock other than sheer apathy. Shelling out $100 for Neil Young tickets is making us broke, and meanwhile, compelling local bands are playing down the street for the cost of a pint of Fat Tire.

This is generational warfare, and we're losing, people. So let's fight back. Turn off the Jethro Tull. Walk out of dinner parties where the hosts put Heart on the stereo. Bolt at the mere mention of foxy ladies. Huey Lewis be damned, let's drive a stake through the heart of classic rock and roll until it is no longer beating. Stop kickin' down the cobblestones, and for God's sake, stop feeling groovy.
#68885 by RGMixProject
Fri May 29, 2009 6:55 pm
RGMixProject wrote:I'm lovin' this :D

Source: www.westword.com
Denver News - The Westword is the definitive source for Denver news coverage, politics, and blogs

There's a disease spreading through our generation of twenty- and thirty-year-olds, a malady we inherited from our parents that's rendering us culturally stagnant. It's sapping our identity. Perhaps, most tragically, we are welcoming this plague into our homes, cars and iPods — even our karaoke parties. This cancer is called classic rock, and it needs to be stopped.

Back when your folks were young, do you think they were listening to their dad's Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller records? Hell no. They were forging their individualism through their Janis Joplin and their Beatles, their Bob Dylan and their Rolling Stones. As they grew up, they still liked to party, picking up AC/DC and Rush LPs, maybe a little Electric Light Orchestra when they got high on the weekends.

But hippie, prog and arena rock somehow still dominate the guitar-based/non-country airwaves all these years later. According to recent figures from Inside Radio, a New Hampshire-based trade publication, there are 485 classic-rock stations in the country, more than any other strain (modern, alternative, etc.) of rock and roll. Meanwhile, the top-grossing concert acts of 2008 were dominated by moldy old-timers like Billy Joel, the Eagles and Neil Diamond.

And the fault lies with the lazy listeners. As our baby-boomer parents head into retirement, we're taking over as the dominant consumers of media, and we're listening to the same crap they did.

This sad story speaks of a lack of imagination among our generation. Don't get me wrong: Anyone without a working knowledge of Blonde on Blonde and Rumours is missing out. But the 1,500th listen to "Start Me Up" really should involve some crying. Think of it this way: Probably every person sharing your wi-fi connection at the coffee shop right now knows the lyrics to "You Shook Me All Night Long," but how many of them can sing along to a single song by My Morning Jacket, TV on the Radio, Of Montreal, Wolf Parade, Neko Case or any of the other best rock artists of our era?

There are plenty of places to find cutting-edge music — and often for free. Members of the so-called Internet age have no excuse for listening to classic rock other than sheer apathy. Shelling out $100 for Neil Young tickets is making us broke, and meanwhile, compelling local bands are playing down the street for the cost of a pint of Fat Tire.

This is generational warfare, and we're losing, people. So let's fight back. Turn off the Jethro Tull. Walk out of dinner parties where the hosts put Heart on the stereo. Bolt at the mere mention of foxy ladies. Huey Lewis be damned, let's drive a stake through the heart of classic rock and roll until it is no longer beating. Stop kickin' down the cobblestones, and for God's sake, stop feeling groovy.


This is why I play in a cover band, I feel like a hero!

#68886 by Sir Jamsalot
Fri May 29, 2009 6:56 pm
hah. 8)

#68890 by gbheil
Fri May 29, 2009 7:03 pm
That sounds so funny to me. Being 49 this year and an old devotee of classic rock.

But ya know, they may be SOL. Both my teen sons like and abscond with our classic rock CD's.
It's like I used to yell at the concerts.
ROCKINFUCKINROLL!!!!! :twisted:

#68898 by J-HALEY
Fri May 29, 2009 8:21 pm
Rgmixproject, we have reporters for the Houston Chronicle here that have written the same old articles. Their little column in the Chron is called handstamp. My response to this type of thinking is the reason that classic rock music refuses to die is because it is real music with melody and us old timers are not ready to give up the ship yet. You are going to have to wait untill they throw dirt in our faces as Sans so often says. I don't like their little three chord screaming music either. It has about as much substance as rap IMO. So I type this in response to their article while I am getting ready to go play classic rock to about 1000 people where we all make about $200.00 apeice doing it. :lol:

The Dinosaur...

#68899 by Chippy
Fri May 29, 2009 8:32 pm
And that Ladies and Gentlemen is what it is all about.

Green with envy but wishing you the very best of luck

J-HALEY wrote:So I type this in response to their article while I am getting ready to go play classic rock to about 1000 people where we all make about $200.00 apeice doing it. :lol:

The Dinosaur...

#68901 by RGMixProject
Fri May 29, 2009 8:45 pm
J-HALEY wrote:Rgmixproject, we have reporters for the Houston Chronicle here that have written the same old articles. Their little column in the Chron is called handstamp. My response to this type of thinking is the reason that classic rock music refuses to die is because it is real music with melody and us old timers are not ready to give up the ship yet. You are going to have to wait untill they throw dirt in our faces as Sans so often says. I don't like their little three chord screaming music either. It has about as much substance as rap IMO. So I type this in response to their article while I am getting ready to go play classic rock to about 1000 people where we all make about $200.00 apeice doing it. :lol:

The Dinosaur...


J-Haley, do you know my friend "MR Troll" down there, plays a lot of open mic shows in that area.
Old man, white ZZ Top beard.

http://www.myspace.com/mistertroll

#68902 by Kramerguy
Fri May 29, 2009 8:49 pm
ahahaha that OP is funny!

#68904 by J-HALEY
Fri May 29, 2009 9:01 pm
RGMixProject, You mean Bert Wills. If you are refering to him he is an institution down here and by marriage is kin to my wife. They are old Seabrook people. He at one time had a 6 record deal in Nashville but got tired of the B.S. and told them to kiss his ass.
#68907 by ColorsFade
Fri May 29, 2009 9:19 pm
RGMixProject wrote:meanwhile, compelling local bands are playing down....


Maybe. But probably not.

#68911 by ANGELSSHOTGUN
Fri May 29, 2009 9:36 pm
WHAT THE HECK do they have against BENNY GOODMAN! He actually recorded my first record,mastered it and hand delivered it . HE WAS SO COOL.
It was my fifth grade class, singing " rounds" but it was still cool. [Scott Goodman] his nephew was in our class.

RGM , That is too funny. You keep rockin and let them think about it fifty years from now.

#68929 by Black57
Fri May 29, 2009 11:34 pm
giongi2 wrote:WHAT THE HECK do they have against BENNY GOODMAN! He actually recorded my first record,mastered it and hand delivered it . HE WAS SO COOL.
It was my fifth grade class, singing " rounds" but it was still cool. [Scott Goodman] his nephew was in our class.

RGM , That is too funny. You keep rockin and let them think about it fifty years from now.


Benny Goodman was the bomb!!! He was the swing era's Ian Anderson. To this day, its frightens me to think that my dad wanted me to learn clarinet :shock: ( licorice stick ) because of B.G.

If today's so called rock musicians came up with anything half as cool, we wouldn't need cover bands. Their lack of imagination is why so many rely on using covers in their own music.

#68934 by ZXYZ
Sat May 30, 2009 12:29 am
I like our generation's rock; we had hendrix, the beatles, the who, zep etc etc.. but somtimes I get tired of hearing the same ol sh*t. If I had to hear "you shook me all nite long" again I think I'd go insane (and I'm an ac/dc fan)
I like some of what the newer artists are doing e.g Train, and this one:
Click Click BOOM>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCAGDhhcro

let the flamin' begin.. :P :twisted:

#68935 by ANGELSSHOTGUN
Sat May 30, 2009 12:33 am
57 , Please put some of your music up, I love good winds. UP here aint nothing but a bunch of great guit players and an old hack like me. LOVE TO HEAR SOME OF YOUR MUSIC.

#68959 by MadmX
Sat May 30, 2009 4:51 am
I seem to resemble this post.... As a matter of fact I will be thinking of that goober tomorrow night when me and my 2 kids (26 & 19) are at the Queensryche concert.... cause THEY baught the tickets!!

Muhahaha... brainwash complete!

....:)

X!

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