Rock Listeners...?

Question

Agree or disagree w/ my latest 360 blog comments on classic rock?

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-yLYNLrI3crThyzDCqpuUZUlcJjTzLQ--;_ylt=Av7UfYNPn_Wh69cRwzNGlye0AOJ3?cq=1

Sure, it's a shameless tactic to get comments on it, but hey, if even just 1 person does... :)

Ok, *maybe* I'll even throw in a potential 10 points...

Feel free to add a comment on the blog page...

Answer 1

YES!!!! God, yes........finally someone has put into words what I've been thinking for so long!

......I own all of those albums

Answer 2

Classic rock in the early 1980s referred more to what the radio industry terms classic hits IMO than what we call classic rock now.

There are articles on the web by the people who invented the idea of classic rock and that is what he had in mind. What AOR radio was 10 years prior that in then 1980s rock was going in a way different direction.

http://www.americasfirstclassicrockdj.com/ for the article I speak of

You named some great 1960s and 1970s classic rock albums but radio which is the biggest means to promote the classic rock genre programs to a set group of ages of listeners which usually for classic rock is 25-54 year olds even though there are younger and older listeners. However what the 25 year old grew up with (who the station is now trying to get to listen, isn't the same as what say the 54 year old grew up with in the 1970s)... Classic rock today isn't the classic rock of 1984 but has come to mean harder rock from the 1960s to the 1990s.

There are stations that still program AOR with the harder edged material (such as programming Little River band next to say Cream, next to Ratt) but usually it's not the case.

Stations that play the newer artists such as Wolfmother and the new Rush cd are termed Rock or Heritage Rock stations as they play newer music that appeals to the older group but also plays the classics they grew up with.

Each generation defines classic rock differently, but however radio going after the most people (the demographic as it's called) have pretty much settled on classic hits to refer to AOR radio or the original form of classic rock and for classic rock to mean harder rock music from the late 1960s to 1990s (usually cut off about 1995-1998 but as early as 1991 or so or late as 2002)

And this is my opinion on your blog on classic rock.

Answer 3

I so agree with you. I cannot stand it when I listen to a classic rock station and they play Guns n' Roses. I like them but it's not classic rock. There were so many bands back then, they really don't need to play these bands from the 80s!

Answer 4

agree

Answer 5

agree

Answer 6

i agree...Van Halen rules.
Grang, grang, grang, gragagara, gragagara (Paranoid guitar riff)