Is Rock Music Dead? Who Cares!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- In another video where I ramble on about a particular topic, I ask the question "Is Rock Dead & Does It Matter?"
#rock #music #discussion
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So long as there is one amount us who turns on “Gimme Three Steps” or “Over the Hills and Far Away” or any of the myriad of classic rock songs, Rock will live on. Damn the torpedos, dime the guitars and amps. Rock and Roll will never die.
Hear hear! 👍
I must have had a wierd childhood, when I was eight or nine years old (1963 on) my main source of inspiration for rock music, such as it was in those early days came from my gran, she loved the Beatles, the Stones, and onwards into the 70's with Zeppelin, sabbath, deep purple, you name it she was listening to it and she made us kids listen too, she passed away in the late eighties about the end of hair metal (which she was crazy for) and the birth of Metallica. My family are convinced she was the worlds first Headbanger.
A close friend owns a radio station in Portsmouth. There's many shows dedicated to Rock music. Sometimes by era. When I was teaching at college,the students were heavily influenced by their parents music. I was amazed by the Rock knowledge they had.
As a teenager in the late 60s early 70s rock music was hard to find and a bit special cos no one knew about it.
I got to see the faces and bowie and uriah heep et all in pubs.
Is music as loveable when it's easy to find . I dunno
What was the question
It's just phases that music goes through. Music is circular, rock will come back into fashion at some point.
I'd like to think so but I never saw big band music come back into fashion.
@@chriskitchen4772 Sorry I meant to say 'modern' music circa the 1950's and onwards.
For me, as long there is some one out there with Rock music in there heart, then it will still be alive, i believe it is our responsibility to keep it alive.
Gone are the days when you regularly had rock bands like Thin Lizzy and Status Quo in the singles chart. Does anyone even know who’s in the singles chart anymore? Having said that, I admit to being in something of a 70’s timewarp. It’s my happy place 🙂
Sometimes I think the likes of Classic Rock actually hinder the new bands. The classics are so in our brains that its hard to allow new music in.
all music ends as culture changes
we are not the rock, punk, culture anymore
instead of I won't do what you tell me, they now preach Do what they tell you culture
I agree. Instead of rebelling against the system or the government, they are now in lockstep. Hollywierd is just the same, pushing an agenda.
I think Rock is probably about as dead as Jazz and Big Band… That is to say: It may not DOMINATE the Billboard charts the way it did during the Rock Age, which I define as being from roughly the late 1950’s till roughly about the late 1980’s, and that is a FACT-look at the charts, and you’ll see that the last time a Rock band topped the charts was in 2010 with Foo Fighters… But Rock music absolutely lives on, just as Jazz continues to live on after the end of the Jazz Age, and just as people still listen to and love Big Band music after the end of the Big Band Era.
It’s not just rock it’s bands in general they are there but nothing like it was . Internet , computers , home recording has smashed the numbers of garage bands … you still have AC/DC foo fighters and a few others knocking it out in the biggest arenas but there are few .. A lot of the most popular acts today when they tour it’s a massive extravaganza more like a broadway show than a gig .. mainstream has moved on but rock will have its place ..
I've never really been a Pop Music Fan......I love many of the styles of Rock though......maybe not what other people feel is the "most Popular" of the moment. I want to thank you again John, for mentioning the group "The Winery Dogs". I had never heard of them until you had mentioned them...and I am very pleased to know of them with your help. THX!
Every music style has it's time period. Good music has staying power, it will always be around.
There are plenty of young bands playing rock music, if you go looking for them. The popular marketplace has moved on to style over substance, image over musical ability. But quality will always be there if you want it.
For most of my life most people I know didn’t like most of the music I did (and do like now)
Some did though, but I don’t base friendship on musical tastes. Some who differed became great friends, some who shared my tastes were great friends too, but some were jerks.
I like what I like, and while not mentioned in the video, the idea of a guilty pleasure means nothing to me, as I like what I like.
Like what you like too.
If rock music is dead, it's only in the same way music generally is dead. When I was much younger, youth culture centred around music, then it was video games, and now it's what? TikTok instant gratification glurge? Doesn't matter to me. I still love music above all things.
"Who cares?" Indeed!
If it were to "die", it is going to come back again, being even better.
💕🕊️🤘
My history of listening to rock music. And I'm about your age. 1973, Phillips white headphones back in TretertAFB, ...., 1976 Phillips white headphones back in Erwewer.
It's not that rock music is dead, changes in technology & society have changed music. It is harder for songwriters to make money from their music. It is easier for bands to get their music out into the wider world, but not in a way that makes money.
Where ever there is a pub with a stage & music licence, there will be three or four musicians playing some kind of rock, jazz, blues, folk etc.
I watch loads of reaction videos and the amount of Led Zeppelin reactions on you tube is phenomenal! I do agree about Don Henley however - he has had so many entertaining reactors' channels banned just because they wanted to check out an Eagles song - he employs dozens of people to trawl through and bust people for just trying to educate themselves on his music. Vile behaviour
Still have so many fond memories of Thomas (the) Vance's Friday Rock Shows and before him dear old Alan (not 'arf) Freeman on Saturday afternoons. Rock is still alive and well in my view. So many musical genres out there that you pays yer money and takes yer choice. There's room for everyone. Though draw the line at 'Boy' & 'Girl' so-called bands.
My wife and I once saw Westlife at Newmarket races. We went because our son had won the tickets in a poker game and we enjoyed the races. Not a fan of that genre at all, but their band were excellent and did have a section of the gig to themselves, which was excellent.
1975 eh the year before the burning summer train tracks buckled with the heat. John was 8 and I was only 6 years old 🤷🏼♂️🥴
There's plenty of support for rock music still, and not just from aging boomers. It's just not reflected in the media. Rock gigs in Newcastle are often packed full. From the big venues to small rock bars like Trillians the flag is flying strong for those who dwell under its banner. In all venues that survived the apocalypse there's a thirst for live music of all genres. As society loses its 'third places' and people retreat to the sanctity of home and a life of doom scrolling for their social interaction, having the ceremony of a live gig is a perfect occasion for people to gather and celebrate.
It's not rock that's dead it's pop - in the sense of the proportion of the 'pop'ulation who know what the current number 1 is, let alone other songs in the top 10 or top 20.
If you watch Pointless there are regularly questions on pop and the lowest scoring/unknown answers are mainly from music of the last 10-15 years compared with much better knowledge of what came before.
If you get on Google home and ask it to play a Spotify playlist of Deep Purple, at least in my home, it’ll play the new songs of the upcoming album plus older tunes as well. And I believe it’s a great way to satisfy us older rockers and introduce the genre to new audiences. My kids (now grown) listened to 60’s through 80’s rock growing up. They’ve attended concerts with me. They can go into my music room and borrow old lps or cd’s and listen to them at home or where they live now. And lastly, I can’t help but think that U.S. copyright law plays a part in limiting access to rock music. You mentioned Don Henley, who appears to use the law as a sword to wield power over others to extract every single penny he can get from his songs. I would like to see a maximum of 25 years of copyright ownership and then let the song become part of public domain. Then we could see more covers on TH-cam and other platforms, and maybe, just maybe have a rock revival.
Is jazz dead? Not for jazz fans. Who cares? Jazz fans.
Indeed (waves sheepishly from the back of a nearly empty room).
They've been pronouncing the death of rock and roll since Danny and the Juniors, didn't Decca tell the Beatles guitars were on the way out?
Don’t see any Big Band Ochestra’s Playing Live, maybe in America?
A quick Google search reveals the live big band scene in the UK is very much alive & kicking. Thriving, it would seem. For instance: www.northernswingorchestra.co.uk/uk-big-band/big-band-events/
Or how about: www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk/whats-on/The-Glenn-Miller--Big-Band-Spectacular
Or this: www.ingatestone-fryerningpc.gov.uk/summer-evening-jazz-on-13-july/
Every Sunday in Glasgow in the same venue, and sometimes everyday. Check out Glasgow gig guide under; Jazz. Many of the older members did play in the USA and Canada when they were younger, but back home now.
I don’t know about that but when I listen to modern country it sounds like the pop music of the 60s and 70s so I’m seeing country is dead
Modern country music has DEFINITELY lost touch with its original heritage and roots, in my opinion. This is probably in no small part because the original culture that produced country music (that is to say, those who grew up in either Appalachian mining towns, farms, ranches, or somewhere else in the rural countryside) is no longer prominent in the lives of the performing artists or listeners of country music. Country music today mostly seems to consist of either nostalgia or posers who do NOT really come from a cowboy background, and have never truly experienced the life or the musical background that their ancestors did. That’s why many of them seem rooted more in 60’s/70’s rock music instead of telling true STORIES (like The Gambler, or Coal Miner’s Daughter), and why some of them play guitar-jos instead of proper 5-string banjos with a true banjo tuning. But then country music has gradually been heading this way since about the late 1970’s, when people like Crystal Gayle and Shania Twain found it more profitable to straddle the line between country and pop music.
If rock is dead then why am i going to see deep purple and yes as well as ELO and war on drugs and the nationsls this summer oh and Beat doing King Crimson...its alive and well and living in the....present?
Rock is not dead John , its just having a kip. Its a sleeping Giant getting read to re-emerge, get ready world 😊.
The harsh truth is young male teenagers and young male adults have become soft. They listen to music their girlfriend tells them to listen to. It started with Backstreet Boys and went downhill from there.
I could explain further but don’t see the point.
Rock is dead they say
Rock is dead
Long live rock
-The Who