Is Rock And Roll Dead?
355000
Classic Rock and Roll is not dead.  It is just not coming over the airwaves.\n\nOlder music lovers either iPod or play self-mix CD's, and many are listening to real Rock and Roll.\n\nThe radio stations tend toward newer releases and have become big business.  They tend to push groups like Green Day, so younger listeners have little choices.  Many have never heard any really good music.\n\nThe mere fact that "Dark Side of the Moon" is still being sold in music stores while CD's cut only two years ago are not, should tell you something about the quality of some of the newer groups.  Who is to say what will be available in ten years?
124787
Rock n' Roll, i.e. heavy metal, soft rock,etc.
203456
Like a lot of musical movements, Grunge had its time in the sun. I think what happened was the corporates didn't like the ferocity of the Grunge movement and fought back through manufacturing faux-grunge bands and singers (I'll name no names) so that they could control music again. With the death of Kurt Cobain and the breakup of Soundgarden, the movement was always going to be eventually marginalized by the hype of manufactured bands and the American Idol culture that seems to have completely taken over music. I wouldn't despair, though. Music has always had a way of throwing up rebels. There will eventually be a backlash against the corporates. Something like Grunge (which, after all, was really Punk Mark II) will spring up again. All it will take is a few genuinely talented bands to kick the door down.
1116
Rock and Roll has so many really good legends and myths. Why not have secret messages? It adds to the whole of it all. Just like the legends that truly good rocks stars made it big because they sold their soul to the devil at the crossroads. Long live rock!
542424
That's a bit of an exaggeration.  Early rock-and-roll drew from the blues, but also from R&B and country music.  When hard rock developed in the mid-'60s, it was based almost exclusively on the blues.  Artists like the Rolling Stones ("Little Red Rooster" is an especially good example), Cream/Eric Clapton ("Sunshine of Your Love"), and Jimi Hendrix, ("Hey Joe"), built the foundation for hard rock, and the heavy metal that developed out of it, on an exaggerated electric blues.  Though the more sophisticated hard-rock and metal bands of the seventies incorporated other influences (British folk for Led Zeppelin, jazz for Led Zeppelin), most, like Black Sabbath and Aerosmith, continued to build on the blues base.  While subsequent rock artists have drawn on influences as diverse as free-jazz and avant-garde strains of 20th century classical, especially in more underground and experimental veins, mainstream rock music has never stopped drawing on the blues, passed along from one generation to the next.
520833
Its sad. I know. Grunge era....those were the days.\n\nAnd now its this "mainstream rock" My chemical romance and stuff...I dont even know what to call it. *shudder*
1067933
today's music does suck. i think the 60's and 70's was THE best Rock n Roll. Ever. Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Hendrix... Today's music is all the same, heavy, chords, and screaming to the same riffs over and over again. Talent has definetley dropped over the past few decades.
671945
That's quite alright. I hate this new rock crap too. I like a lot of older stuff from back then like The Rolling Stones, Led Zep, Aerosmith, Elvis, & Lynyrd Skynyrd.\n\nMusic today really sucks. Except there's some good country actually.
1106078
No.  He is not dead.  He music was dead when it was alive.  He should try acting or modeling only and leave singing alone.
137195
the loss of ROCK in rock music, the lack of any truely talented musicians out there, maybe research how many oldies stations there are in your area vs those that play newer music.  i know in my area it's almost all oldies, 70's, or easy listening.  Kind of makes you think, maybe it's because music these days is cookie cutter crap.\nOr....how about the fact that movie stars don't want people to pirate movies (they have those commericals, with like-the camera guys and kraft services people like...if you don't pay to see amovie I can't buy cheese for my kid) and it's like....maybe if stars didn't make millions upon millions for contributing nothing but sterotypes, violence, and sex to society.\nSOrry.  I was about to rant.
1017213
When you look at the music created between early 1980-1987, there was a genre of musical talent I believe the world will never see again. \nWhere has this talent gone?\n\nThe 90's music was what you listened to when your 5 seconds short of suicide, and the 70's music was simply 1-dimension heavy rock(for the most part)\n\n60's music was fast-beat 3 minute songs designed for AM radio\n\nAnd the 'music' today? Horrific...to say the least.\n\nThe 80's were a great era.
795259
It's just the flavor of the day.  Reality is what is hot now.  They still perform but aren't always able to get the whole band together for reunions.  I think they are at the point in their lives where they are not totally washed up but still need to put themselves out there and let people know they're still around.
230401
i also hope rap will die quickly, it sucks badly. and rock n roll aint gonna die! it will survive.
557154
Those artists were inspired by musicians who were all about the music. The blues was the last great musical form. From it came rhythm-and-blues, rock'n'roll and much of what followed in rock. You have to go back to the roots to truly get it. Bands today are often copies of copies, all the fire is gone after so any levels of remove from the real thing. Maybe someone will put together something we haven't heard before that rocks. I'm not too hopeful, but who knows?
1007326
i don't think so. bands these days aren't that creative to warrant that kind of attention. the Beatles made rock BIG they recorded quadraphonically they invented rolling bass. unless someone INVENTS something new, it's not likely. and whether ir not anyone gets as "big" as the beatles as you say, they will never be as good. Think about this: What will people be listenting to in 100 years ? 200 years ? will Mozart be as popular as ever ? probably. and probably the Beatles will be as well. But no one will know who-the-frick is brittney spears or dave matthews.
257856
You need a truckload of money. If you are looking to make money, forget it. The record industry as we know it will soon die as a result of the internet and new media. There is just too much overhead and not enough income, and people have plenty more options for entertainment.\n\nLook into developing new media avenues instead.
545194
Well i used to be a            . that got a little old. here is my opion it is dying. not many people watch professinal wrestling.