I have a theory that as much as I like Grunge it killed rock n Roll. If you think about it up until grunge (Nirvana) It was cool to live in excess, be wild and be a rockstar. I believe rock has lost its identity since grunge since then its got kind of an anxiety disorder about being like kurt cobain (poor dirty depressed) or axl rose (decadant, rowdy,). What do other music fans think of this?
2007-02-27 16:03:26 · 12 answers · asked by Rocky m 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I remember when rock n' roll had guitarists, bass players, keyboards, and percussion, and they knew how to use them! You don't hear guitar and drum solos anymore. You don't hear good lyrics anymore, now it's all anger stuff.
I like some of the new stuff, don't get me wrong. But none of them will compare to the late 60's and 70's bands who just knew how to jam.
2007-02-27 16:10:44 · answer #1 · answered by C J 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually, this same cycle already happened over 30 years ago. Punk was a direct response to the decadence of the 70's rock-celebrity scene of bands like the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin etc. The Sex Pistols were deliberately trying to overthrow that whole concept of "rock star as god" that was happening at that time. And somehow, we got back into it in the '80's, which enabled Nirvana and other grunge rockers to rebel against it again in the 90's! So this is not the end for rock. Nothing ever will be... :-)
2007-02-27 16:31:18 · answer #2 · answered by ~HappyBunny~ 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well I book a band and they are older, have been playing for 30+ yrs. (since the age of 9) The guys a badass guitarist with strong vocals and he's just got this classic southern rock sound no matter what....you should hear him nail Stranglehold....freakin' awesome! Anyway what I'm getting to is this (I see his fan base grow everyday and it's ppl. that wanna rock out and the age differences would blow your mind) furthermore.....in the last 2-3 yrs. we've started seeing artists like Kid Rock with Hank Jr. and Lindsey Buckingham with Little Big Town, Skynyrd on CMT (and about to tour with Hank Jr.) some damn good guitar riffs in the current country artists music....it's weird man....if The Eagles just entered the world of music today....where would they fit in? MTV? not hardly....VH1?...maybe.....CMT?.... definitely!.....and the crowds they draw! hundreds of thousands and all different ages from 6-60!....I think grunge killed rock n roll for a while (way too long) but I think rock n roll has found a brand new outlet and it's coming back really fast! Hang on, it's all gonna be ok!
LL =)
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2007-02-27 16:15:06 · answer #3 · answered by fl0w3rchld 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the record industry that killed rock n roll, they killed it by putting out a lot of bands that sound the same and over popularizing new genres every decade, they did it with hair metal in the 80s, with grunge in the early 90s, nu metal in the late 90s and early 2000s, and they still doing it today with metal core bands. They made rock music more about trends and fashion than about music. Nobody takes Rock seriously anymore because of them.
2013-10-10 12:23:25 · answer #4 · answered by SH300 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rockin' and rollin' is black slang for getting some.(evil fornication)The music was scandalous jumped -up black man's blues sung by less-menacing white boys.Every permutation and combination since then is derivative of the original black man's blues,thus a pale imitation.The Rolling Stones imitated Muddy Waters And Bo Diddley,The Beatles:Chuck Berry,Eric Clapton:Robert Johnson,Led Zeppelin:Sonnyboy Williamson and Howlin' Wolf.You can extrapolate this out to the present.When a real raunchy rock band lists their influences .It inevitably leads back to the source.So ,if you would be enlightened :Go to the source.For example,if you want to hear "Hounddog" in the context of what it's really about listen to Big Mama Thornton's 1953 recording.
2007-02-27 16:18:46 · answer #5 · answered by kevin k 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the music producers have abandoned rock and roll. These guys spend millions of dollars promoting acts in order to get more money back. They have found that they can create acts, which gives them a bigger cut of the pie. Many of these acts are just singers and easily replaceable if they want a better contract. Now that rock and roll had laid low, most people don't know where to find it.
2007-02-27 16:17:10 · answer #6 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes, I definitely believe grunge killed rock n' roll. But at the time, it was a good thing - the shift we needed. Rock n' roll was already dying; it was a glammed up version of itself, more about style than content, making it basically pop music.
2007-02-27 16:10:32 · answer #7 · answered by Beauty Bunny 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
the grandfather of grunge put it this way:
"hey hey, my my
rock and roll can never die"
but your descriptions:
"poor dirty depressed" and "decadant [sic], rowdy"
are useful for describing the early history of rock and roll
2007-02-27 16:07:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No rap and hip hop killed rock & roll.
2007-02-27 16:47:40 · answer #9 · answered by jack_04_flash 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Couldnt have grunge is not music..Rock and Roll is..
2007-02-27 16:06:25 · answer #10 · answered by Jerry G 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋