george1146561 wrote:That emphasized bit was the fly in the dip that I reacted to. .
Yeah, but that is just being nit picky. You know I'm right. Turn on a classic rock station and count how many songs use an electric guitar for the solo vs keyboards (which had a limelight in 80s new wave)
it will be, and is, overwhelmingly stereotypical
Songs remain mostly the same kind of arrangement since at least the 1930s
verse/chorus/verse/chorus/break/solo/verse/chorus/chorus/chorus/end
Only the instrumentation and the singer changes. Since I grew up in the classic rock era, I write classic rock songs but that would be stale and "dated" if I went with standard instrumentation, or played with people who grew up in the American classic rock era with me.
In the search for less than a guitar solo, I found a tar player (persian instrument) who does the solos instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvFOm_Uj4pQ