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As long as three or four or five buddies blast out three chords in a garage somewhere Rock N Roll will live on.

I guess in the end it depends on what you consider successful, is it making noise in the garage, is it making noise in a club, is it making noise on the airwaves, is it makeing noise in the arenas.

I think a depressed economy actually makes better more street level music come out, the real blood and guts hanging on the edge of you seat rock n roll.

No it aint dead yet!

You got that right bro, when the music industry ( notice , I didn't capitalize those words) takes a good street level music like Metal in the 1980's, they pasteurized it to the point of being safe for consumption for the brain dead. As soon as the trend was over after they raped the genre, they moved on to Country , Rap and "Fashion Metal" ( Nu Metal).
Rock / Metal is supposed to be dangerous not some fashion statement. Sorry, I guess I got posessed by Frank Zappa !!!!

Aw common guys. I've been tinkering with Drop D and even Drop C and can do different things - good for getting you out of a rut. Just another tool in the chest.

Don't care for the growling vocals. I heard a guy from Lamb of God on sat radio just chatting. His voice was a wreck. I question the wisdom of allways sounding angry - rage gets wearisome and can wear on a man.

Talbot

You said it !
we just did a pop tune in DADGAD sounds like a good one for Journey believe it or not. I wrote the lyric and am strutting around the house. It started in
B is so slacked the strings got caught on the neck ! But to be to the point the kids think many of the old dudes are, out of touch, but they aspire to reach JIMMY PAGE.

I've been teaching guitar for 21 years, on and off, lately kids are coming in wanting to learn Hendrix, Page, Malmsteen, Vai, Satriani, Rhoads, Dime Bag or Clapton .... could it be a sign

To find out a band I was in 30 years ago, and the one album we self produced has become a cult classic, and the fact that grandfather bands are still touring and age brackets gone by still clamor for reunions of bands in the 60s and 70s seems to indicate the spectrum of interest in music is so wide it cannot be classed at all. It is art, it is business, it is balogna, it is dangerous, it is inept, it is sublime, it is inspiring, it is everything to everyone at some point, and modern technology has made it accessible to the entire planet.

If the discussion is about rock and roll as a genre, define rock and roll. Its earliest germination? Its mingling of styles all along the way - gospel, blues, soul, jazz. Has rock and roll ever been musically pure? When? The entrance of Marshall amps? But that isn't genre. Musically speaking rock and roll has always been a mongrel.

Assuredly everything is now spread out so thin among 7 billion people the odds of "making it" are exponentially against musicians. But as long as instruments are available I suspect people will make what they call music, some of it called "rock and roll."