Rock music isn't dead, but it's barely hanging on.

This is true in at least two senses.

Though popular music sales in general have plummeted since their peak around the turn of the millennium, certain genres continue to generate commercial excitement: pop, rap, hip-hop, country. But rock — amplified and often distorted electric guitars, bass, drums, melodic if frequently abrasive lead vocals, with songs usually penned exclusively by the members of the band — barely registers on the charts. There are still important rock musicians making music in a range of styles — Canada's Big Wreck excels at sophisticated progressive hard rock, for example, while the more subdued American band Dawes artfully expands on the soulful songwriting that thrived in California during the 1970s. But these groups often toil in relative obscurity, selling a few thousand records at a time, performing to modest-sized crowds in clubs and theaters.

But there's another sense in which rock is very nearly dead: Just about every rock legend you can think of is going to die within the next decade or so.

[theweek.com]

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"Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime."- Lavrentiy Beria

That's life. Many of The Pre-Rock&Roll Stars lived into this century or the 90s.

Sinatra's greatest work was in the 60s..., so there that.

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San Antonio, TX (in the old city)


"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Eli Weisel

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

"I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it." - Billy Graham 1981

"Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise" - Barry Goldwater

Wow, that is a truly idiotic article. Based on the premise I anticipated it would be dopey, but it exceeded all expectations.

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Some pioneers are still with us:

Little Richard (86)
Jerry Lee Lewis (83)
Don Everly (82)

Damon's limited sense of "legendary" is more painful to him than he thinks.

I read it.
Then I scanned it to be sure I did not miss this or that .
The music will live on long after the artist has died

But the rant that he got off on about creativity and independence was lost with the DJs and independent FM radio stations. Fake News is controlled by the few. Fake Radio is the same way. Press play on tape.

Sinus XM has this playlist and you will never hear the song that they play on the FM radio. There are a few exceptions but if you listen to both you will note that these AC/DC are always on 98 Rock and these AC/DC songs are always on Sirus.

Calling in to the radio station and asking them to play Dave Matthews Band is a thing of the past.

"The Last DJ" by Tom Petty

Well you can't turn him into a company man
You can't turn him into a @#$%&
And the boys upstairs just don't understand anymore
Well the top brass don't like him talking so much
And he won't play what they say to play
And he don't want to change what don't need to change
And there goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
There goes the last DJ
Well some folks say they're gonna hang him so high
Because you just can't do what he did
There's some things you just can't put in the minds of those kids
As we celebrate mediocrity all the boys upstairs want to see
How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free
And there goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
And there goes the last DJ

[Instrumental break]

Well he got him a station down in Mexico
And sometimes it will kinda come in
And I'll bust a move and remember how it was back then
There goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
And there goes the last DJ

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Staunton, Virginia

The heart of rock and roll is still beating.

BEACH BOYS FOREVER!




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Wow, that is a truly idiotic article. Based on the premise I anticipated it would be dopey, but it exceeded all expectations.

I think it is rather well done — quite Joseph Campbell-esque in its musings on the origin and raison d’être of rock music. However, I do take issue with the author’s decision to deliberately differentiate pop and rock with his first breath, only to lump Michael Jackson and Ray Charles in with other “rock” entities with his very next one.

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It is what it is.

....Legends........of the Fall......????

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Just sayin'.

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All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

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