When exactly did rock n' roll die?

I especially love their Heaven & Hell EP, contains three lengthy songs with psychedelic guitar that will blow your mind! :biggrin:

 

WOW....sounds and looks like I've got lots of stuff to listen to in the near future...thanx

 

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do, but I think it's save to say if you like good, heavy and psychedelic guitar on the foreground you will love it. :cheers2:

 

Hell yeah!:hat::cheers2:

 

I'm 58. My parents insisted that rock & roll was, "just a bunch of noise. It wasn't music. Just a beat. And nobody really sang, they just yelled in time to the beat, and, they garbbled the lyrics so badly that you couldn't understand them. It was just kid's stuff. Played by untalented, low life, teenage, street trash."
And that, "Big band swing wasn't dead. R&R wouldn't last, and swing would come back and be number 1 again. Just you wait and see!"

We're all still waiting!

Rock and Roll is dead.
Just like swing.

Sorry everyone -- but it's true.
Sad as that may be.

A whole generation has grown up without it, lost in rap, hip hop, and whatever.
Just like 2, 3, or 4 generations have grown up without swing.
In general, they have no interest in it, don't know what it is, who played it, or why. It is dry, DEAD as dust history to them.
It's old folks music -- like Lawrence Welk [who? Google it] was to the Rockers in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

No one likes it when time, generations, and the world passes them by.
No one likes to admit "THEIR" era is over.
That their inspiration, their passions, their youth, the time of their life, is gone and done as yesterday.
The majority of hippies of my generation hated Disco and Punk/New Wave when they came along. And, said everything, word for word about those music styles, that my parents had said about Elvis and R&R, and all those younger than them at the time. Just like Mom and Dad steadfastly clinging to swing, and the youth of their lives, and, it's inevitable, victorious return
That didn't stop societal-generational evolution in it's tracks, as they all wished.
And, it was a generational change -- for all intents and purposes, musically, Psychedelia was over. There would be few new bands playing in that genre from that time on.
By then, my crowd was in our late 20s and early 30s. Ancients, as viewed by the up and coming teen and tween generation replacing us as the dominant driving audience. And, flocking to these new sounds.

As the world changes around us, quite a few of us just refuse to let go.
And I don't mean to get on board what ever new band wagon just happens to be rolling by at the minute. Like crap music...oh excuse me, rap music, etc.
There was no way my parents were gonna be rockers. It wasn't their generational destiny to make that evolution.
They would no longer have been themselves if they had.
As it is not my generational destiny to proceed on from Rock.
I was born just in time for R&R. I remember seeing Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show -- when it all started.
It was breath taking -- soul shaking -- life shaping!
As was Benny Goodman and Glen Miller [Google it]for Mom and Dad in the 30s.
It saddens me, but, I would be denying reality, if I didn't admit the Bop-A-Rama is over.
Why do you all think American Bandstand [Google it]went off the air about 2 decades ago?
It wasn't because Dick Clark [Google it]was tired!
It's over.

And has been for sometime.

R&R is 20th Century music -- and, we are now 9 years into the 21st.

There is a name for this terrible process.
It's called -- The Natural Order and Progression Of The Universe.
Nothing -- lasts forever.

Yet we CAN all keep it in our hearts, and record [what are those?] collections.

And to all of you who say it's still going -- why is it no longer the #1 seller if that's true?
R&R died the day it stopped being #1 in music sales -- which means the listening public had turned away.
No form of music has ever regained #1 status with the public after losing it.
People, young people in particular, always want something new -- that is their own, and not a hand me down from Mom, Dad, or Grand Dad.
In our modern, non-static, non-ridged, non-traditional global society, no popular trend lasts longer than one generation -- at very best.
And R&R is a trend of the Baby Boomers. And in case you haven't noticed, we are all retiring, and even dying. Our time has come and gone -- as is the case with our trends and Music as well.

Yes, it will always be played.
Just like Bluegrass, Zydeco, Big Band, Dixieland, and even Scottish Bagpipe music.

But, it is DEAD, as the dominant music in sales -- in ticket sales -- in societal influence -- in record company clout -- in radio air play -- in popularity with teens and tweens.
And remember, Both Elvis and The Beatles, as well as their contemporaries, were primarily teen and tween idols when they started out.
They captured that audience of fans, and held them throughout their careers as they aged into adulthood.

Just like Elvis, R&R will never be forgotten.
And, just like Elvis -- It's dead.

And -- there wasn't even a funeral.

R.I.P. Rock And Roll

 

Ok, fine but When exactly did rock n' roll die?

 

Which, happened some time ago now.
A statistical fact that I'm sure can be looked up and found in music industry sales archives. If one is motivated enough to search it out. I'm not that motivated myself. Just knowing it has happened is enough for me.
Though at a guess, I'd say sometime in the mid to late 90s?

 

It'll be back. Everything comes back in one form or another...

I guaranfuckin'tee it.

ZW

 

Rock and roll freakout yeaaaahahahahahahahaaaaeeahh!!!!

 

one- i'm 19, and would have to argue that r&r hasn't died. sure, it's on life support, and there are only a handful of good or great bands out there, but they're there. two- good to know everything dies out eventually. when will the newer rap/ hip hop stuff, screamo, emo, etc die? i can't wait...

 

and by everything, i mean the very vast majority. r&r hopefully will be one of the few enduring things...

 

Sorry, you're way off. There are lots of young people who are not into hiphop but into old fashioned rock, and perhaps some are even into both. Anyway, saying a whole generation has grown up without it is nonsense.

Uhm, why is a genre dead when it's not #1 in music sales??? Who cares what sells most, doesn't say much about rock 'n roll.

 

Rock n roll never died

 

I feel ya.....hooooray!!!!!!

 

rock died when things become overblown and people worshiped bands like gods. when this hero worship kept people from making something new, they were just re-making the old. in a way, rock killed itself. If rock is going to go anywhere, people need to get over bands like pink floyd and led zepplin and the beatles (while they are awesome) and make something new. when rock fans feel they can lord over other genres like rap or pop with a sense of superiority, this feeling they were somehow set apart. good rock is based on change and innovation. so rocks popularity and legacy were its downfall. rock as it was is dead, but It can begin again if we start fresh and get over ourselves and open up and look out.

 

I agree......that pompous kinda rock (e.g. Camel, Journey, Foreigner and other utter rubbish) was blown away (hopefully forever) by PUNK!!!

 

RIGHT ON bro :cheers2:

 

A genre is never blown away by another genre. You can't blame punk for the downfall of a certain kind of rock. And rock as a whole is not dead when this subgenre of stadion rock or the popular rock bands like Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin hit the mainstream and become idols and stuff. Sounds ridicilous to me. Maybe in the eighties people could say something like that and think rock had died indeed but happily time has proven you wrong. Like no rockers got over bands like that.

 

Bands like Floyd and Zep hit the mainstream and became famous because once they got there, they didn't wimp out by changing their music style radically.