Thursday, January 12, 2012

What Would it Take To Save Rock and Roll?

Or has it long been over like the Golden Age of Hollywood?



Will we ever have real rock stars again, and would it sell?



Have Your Say.What Would it Take To Save Rock and Roll?
-Canceling 'Idol'



-Axing MTV...forever. Bring music back to our souls %26amp; imaginations.



-Have ALBUMS be the statements again. Not just individual songs you can download. (though admittedly, that'd be tough to reverse at this point)
i dont want rock to be popular. i like it being "my thing"



i like being different. standing out. it makes me sad when i hear people liking my music. i know. it's wierd....but what can i say.What Would it Take To Save Rock and Roll?
i think it would take a band like Zeppelin,Guns N' Roses, or maybe a great guitarist like Hendrix or something
Rock and Roll doesn't need saving from anything. It's fine as it is (and as it is rocks).What Would it Take To Save Rock and Roll?
True rock in the mainstream is gone forever. Today's society wouldnt allow real rock to return to the forefront. Everyone is about who is hot, and how many f*cking cars Paris Hilton has, and how many cocks Britney Rears has sucked etc...
ask me another
To save rock n roll it would need to be marketed to make it popular again..



I quite like the way it is now.. Besides the fact that bands like MCR and Panic domeinate this industry. I like how rock is the underdog music genre.



I like it that the cool kids dont like it.. I like being different and differing from the cool kids... and rock allows me that.
Rock (not any of this garage-rock-pop crap or fake-punk-rock) was over-exhausted in the 80s with stadium rock bands like scorpions. The public may not want any REAL rock bands, and unfortunately will be all too interested with these fake, commercial rock bands like the Foo Fighters to make any real stuff for the next 10 years.
The best way to save Rock n Roll is too stop watching reality TV like American Idol. Another is for the public to actually go to a retailer to purchase music. Downloading is killing the music industry because the larger labels are no longer investing in young bands or artists and providing them with a chance to grow, develop, or be heard. The way things are now only tried and true formula music is being released. A band needs to practice, develop original material, tour regionally, attract the interest of a label and then break. It is tried and true and we need to get back to it.... that will save music. Of course retailers need to be realistic about the price of a new CD. There is no way they should be any higher than 6 or 7 bucks, we all know how cheap a blank disc is and we all know how easy it is to duplicate.. You just can't justify $15 dollars for a product... New artists will emerge and sell... they just need to be new sounds from new bands that play their own instruments and play without entering into a competition
I agree with what a lot of people have said so far. I kind of like Rock exactly where it is right now. True, there is not quite as much good music being put out now, but there is definitely enough to listen to, between new and old music. As long as Good Music still exists, then it really does not matter to me whether or not it is the main stream, or if it sells, or if there are major rock stars, as long as the music is there. Actually it does make me happier for Rock to not be the mainstream. I do like for it to be something that people enjoy for its own sake, not because it is popular.

Rock %26amp; Roll will never die, it will always be around as long as there are people to listen to it, but it may not be the in the main mainstream again, at least for a while, and that is alright with me.
My thought(s?) on this is(are?) that so-called musicians need to stop writing songs for the primary purpose of making sales, and performing songs just to please the audience. This attitude damages (if not totally destroys) any creativity that might have been involved in writing/performing the song. Rock %26amp; Roll is about writing and playing what YOU FEEL, if you are not doing that, you are not playing R%26amp;R. 'Nuff said.



EDIT: I'm staying away from"calling people out" right now,

but, I am down with the album thing!
I really think that true rock and roll is dead.



"They will take rock and roll and they will strangle everything we love about it".



And you know what? They did, they have, they won. Thank goodness for the old stuff though, right?
I think we do have rock stars. Bono and Eddie Vedder are 2 good examples. They stand up for what they believe in, have not done "reality tv" and still make great music.



I agree with who ever it was that said that down loading is killing the music industry. I think the Indy lables could maybe save things. The big corporate record lables have kept the CD prices so high that people are not buying. The radio stations play only what they are sent to play by th big corporate record companies. The big arena's are owned by the big companies who only let the certain "chosen few" tour and play. Its a shame really.. Theres a lot of good music out there that we will not hear. Support local music and indy labels!
wow! I love 80s rock and im only 15..so i saposs there is hope! I think all of the skill in the guitarists have long been faded out. newer bands are all about the singers and i just cant take that! I love hearing guitar solos and new bands dont seem to have such a thing!
the Internet would have to die
it would take:

the ressurection of John Bonham, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, George Harrison among countless others

it would also take all of the aforementioned and Jimmy Page, Eddie VAn Halen, Slash, and eveyr other rock star EVER to go out and slaughter rappers with their instruments. then people would have to love rock. of course htis wouldn't work, so i dont really know. (wow, what a useless answer. oh well, at least i'll get my two points!)
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