At the very least, the technology is such now that you can record something that sounds decent enough to release independently.Drucker wrote:I mean, there is no investment in great rock music anymore. Simple as that. Radiohead and U2 are the two examples I give as bands that took years to become as great as they would become. There isn't even an infrastructure in place anymore that could allow bands to evolve and thrive like that anymore. Today, bands that do last for years live meager lives and most assuredly don't have resources like "studio time" on someone else's dollar at their disposal. We don't invest in much these days :/
I think going underground will somehow work out for Rock to survive as a genre artistically, if not financially. A lot of the newer music I listen to is somewhat steeped in nostalgia, wearing a classic rock influence on their sleeve. But done in a way that I, a 32 year old guy, can see some of it resonate on a purely modern level. My favorite artist right now, Steven Wilson, talked about how awful it was when his band Porcupine Tree opened for Yes. Mainly because the older audience didn't get it and they weren't Kansas or some other band of the era they knew of. As even a fan of Yes, I take some pride in knowing that his music which has been easily dismissed by some as purely nostalgic, could garner such an apathetic or negative response from the purely nostalgic. And fortunately he's doing well enough for someone that's mostly unknown in mainstream circles, but in his own way he has to hustle, while keeping his integrity intact as well.
The 60's XM station plays a lot of that stuff, and hearing it blast in the next room during a brief stay at my mom's was when I realized what you said was true. I kind of always knew it to some degree, but actually listening to the numerous one-hit wonders and so on hammered the point home.AfterTheFlood wrote:I think the people who worship 1960s rock fail to realize that the VAST majority of music was lame. You had all the dumb hippie rock bands (Strawberry Alarm Clock) and bubblegum pop (Tommy Roe), as well as the music the older adults listened to (Herb Alpert). I think the Baby Boomers want everyone to believe that every band back then was The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, when that wasn't remotely close to reality. Yes, I have some amazing albums in my music collection from the 1960s, but to act as if every Westerner was listening to The Velvet Underground type quality music is such nonsense.
