philbymon wrote:Are there any bands/solos that came out since 1990 that you like?
I hear ppl gripin' all the time about how music has turned to crap. It's rare to hear anyone over 40 talk about how they like this or that new musical act.
Ha ha ....I was about to assault the forum with my boorish anti-Nirvana spit & slobber on the topical thread but Ill kill two...ooops, Im a hippy , Ill FEED two birds with one stone, peace and luv etc....
To be quick and to the point, a lot of negative stuff the universe offered up circa 1990 was mixed up and spewn forth in the form of Nirvana and Grunge, the whole 'Seattle Sound'(??huh??) thing. Mediocre musicianship met with a growing apathetic listener population and this form of music still lives on today in many mutated forms...Emo, Death Metal etc. The Pro-Tool/Funeral Dirge through an effects board sound did replace the musicianship of the 60's, 70's and 80's. When I started playing in the 70's the mags only featured real players. Cars had AM radios and in a five mile trip you would hear Jimi, the Monkees, Smoky Robinson and maybe Tommy James and the Shondells. People were exposed to different influences through no choice of thier own. FM radio was no-playlist/freeform and was not the vapid, scripted, ad based commercial entity it is today. When we got our little tape player to try to figure our heros stuff out there was a "
HOW THE EFFF Did HE Do THAT?!?!?" factor. Listening to Jimmy Page, Joe Perry or trying to figure out what key Keef Richards was playing in was a real challenge.....frustrating and inspirational. The albums coming out in the mainstream were Lou Reed Live and Rock and Roll Animal....You could get bootlegs of the awesome Mick Taylor era 'Stones at the LA Colosseum for instance.....
Robin Trower, Johnny Winter, Frank Marino were the FM fodder of the day.
To me, my uninformed , boorish opinion...MAINSTREAM ie; accessible music doesn't even come close to what it was. Back then, even if you wanted obscure, it was still accessible. The only band that ever mattered, The sEx PiSt0Ls were out, the New York Dolls (Johnny Thunders inspired more people to play than all 'heros' combined), the Ramones etc.....OK, Ill stop now..
I gotta switch to decaf....but yeah, there is good music today as there always will be, but you just have to dig to the bottom of the landfill to unearth it. No offense intended
Peace 'n stuff
LEm in Fl.
I like their sound but find their lyrics repetitive & dull...everyone's like "*gasp* They're Canadian! We have to support our fellow Canucks in their music b/c it's so much harder here to get a leg up!" Well, that may be so, but does that mean we have to settle for mediocracy? Geez...like can't we give some constructive critiscism here & make them work harder? Sheesh... 
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"I'm a Sad Panda" )and Matchbox 20 for their 1990's/2000's songwriting and composing abilities.
