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Original message:351 days 15 hours 52 minutes ago

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i would like to see what everyone thinks about the future of rock and roll. you know2, things come into popularity, and things go out of popularity... we had a good many years of wonderful rock and metal, and then, just after grunge, the misguided youth of our nation gave up their guitars and drums for samplers and turntables. do you think rock will return? in what form? when? why?

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Reply:351 days 15 hours 32 minutes ago
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Excellent question! God I hope so! Rock N' Roll was the thing when I was up and coming. It had been the established king of the hill for 40 years. I didn't like the Grunge movement very much. It seemed to be cool to suck at guitar. Hip-Hop is a plague as far as I'm concerned! Empty-V turned it's back on music videos, and for a long time we did without those until YouTube came along, (thank god! er sorry about that oh Dark Lord), but for years we had reality tv, Yo-Mtv Raps, Tommy Hilfiger bullshit shoveled down our throats with nowhere else to go until the internet gave it back to us. I feel sorry for the younger guys here. Many have never seen a stadium pound so hard with people stamping the floor that it sounded like and earthquake with guys showing off their chops.The days of arena rock, gone! Established bands are reduced to playing all their classic material with no nope of getting any airplay for new material. I saw the Eagles two weeks ago. They were playing some really great new material....that nobody wanted to hear. You could tell they were frustrated about it.

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Reply:351 days 14 hours 54 minutes ago
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i totally agree with you. i think rock has WAY more to offer youth as an experience than hiphop, or pop for that matter. i diddnt mind grunge too much, but it was obviously the beginning of the end. when rock was the big thing , everyone was all sorts of concerned about the messqage it sent to youth... look at the message NOW! it is disgusting, and i must say, even if it sounds predjudice, i look down upon many people who listen to it and practice that lifestyle. it is repulsive. it causes crime, violence, bigotry, and disrespect, mainly twords women (which i am VERY VERY AGAINST) i was raised to treat women with respect, and this crap is totally the oposite.

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Reply:351 days 14 hours 51 minutes ago
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i also must say, i think rock will come back.... at least i hope. i think people will get bored with all of this other crap and realize rock...well...it rocks!

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Reply:351 days 14 hours 44 minutes ago
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I wish I had the money, I would start my own rock n' roll music channel! And any body with the chops, new and old, male and female, black, white, and anybody else would be featured. The only requirement....you gotta' ROCK! Let me hear that blistering LEAD GUITAR DAMMIT!!!!!!!!

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Reply:351 days 14 hours 31 minutes ago
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amen.

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Reply:351 days 14 hours 30 minutes ago
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i think rock will come back ...and ill make it happen...my band and i, we got a new style of music ...is like grunge but heavier.....i hope that this fucking emo trend gets killed...hopefully

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Reply:351 days 14 hours 25 minutes ago
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haha, yes. absolutely get rid of the emo. just provide all of them with razorblades.....

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Reply:351 days 14 hours 24 minutes ago
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haha, yes. absolutely get rid of the emo. just provide all of them with razorblades.....

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Reply:351 days 14 hours 20 minutes ago
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Yeah i fucking hate emos!... they are the reason why every mainstream band right now sucks!

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Reply:351 days 13 hours 57 minutes ago
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Rock makes role models... more anyways. "Ooh I want to grow up so I can used acid pro just like him" Pffffft. No its fucking "I want to grow up so I can play the guitar just like him." Rap wise... there are some guys out there, mostly the ones who rap politics that I have to admit have skill with poetry. Buts its fucking angry poetry that is all.

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Reply:351 days 13 hours 56 minutes ago
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NOOOW if a rapper shredden a harmony to his lyrics on stage with a DRUMMER playing his beats.... I will be really really impressed.

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Reply:350 days 5 hours 26 minutes ago
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Just because it rhymes, it doesn't mean it's poetry.

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Reply:351 days 13 hours 46 minutes ago
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so would i, as long as the N word wasnt used and he diddnt condone drug use, violence, or say anything against women like "ho" and "bitch"

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Reply:350 days 19 hours 24 minutes ago
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The last clean rapper was Will Smith. He was dropped by his label. He wasn't selling enough CDs.......WILL SMITH!!!!! Amazing!

Not enough language, misogyny, and violence in his material. Sad. I used to like rap. Now I hate it! Not because of the music, but because of the culture.

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Reply:351 days 12 hours 39 minutes ago
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I just hope good Rock will stay alive or make a comeback.
Being a college student, im fucking disappointed all the music thats popular now.

Reply:351 days 12 hours 21 minutes ago
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there has been talk that Guitar Hero has made rock n roll have a comeback....which is sadly true (I hate the game...give me a real guitar)
kids only like music if its on a video game, it has gotten so lame...and I would say the only reason it went out wasn't exactly just because it wasn't popular more just some stupid producer liked emo better.

but don't worrie about the emos the will eventually all kill themselves

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Reply:351 days 8 hours 38 minutes ago
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yes me too, i hate guitar hero so much...and i hate when people watch other people guitar hero....there is nothing impressive about playing a 5 button plastic piece of shit that looks like a guitar!

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Reply:351 days 12 hours 3 minutes ago
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you know, about that whole guitar hero thing...

i watch youtube videos of little kids shredding their faces off with that game on hard... now here is what i say:

you paid upwards of $100 or more for the game, and quite a few hundred for the system for your kid... they like to rock, why not let them put their talent to REAL use with a REAL guitar? every kid in my family goes shopping with uncle chad for their first guitar as soon as they ask me too, but if they want a video game.... better ask mommy and daddy. then i teach each one of them myself too, if they like it, great, if not, chances are they will regain interest later in life. heck, i just bought both of my neices a martin acoustic las christmas because they wanted to play so bad, and they are sticking with it (dont worry, it was just the "little martin" not an actual full on martin... they are only 6....)

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Reply:350 days 5 hours 22 minutes ago
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I want to be your nephew. I'll let you buy me a new guitar.

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Reply:351 days 10 hours 16 minutes ago
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I guess it depends on what you consider to be rock. I don't know a lot about emo, but I would consider that rock music, anything that has distorted guitars, 4/4, etc. Radiohead, Keane, Coldplay, all that I would consider rock too. If you consider that, rock is still doing pretty good.

As far as the guitar solo, I do believe that will make a comeback someday, definitely...

Reply:351 days 10 hours 10 minutes ago
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I'd like to know what bozo's thought that pushing such a great genre aside would be good for humanity. The beautiful thing about rock n' roll is that it's a musical mutt! Influences from every corner of modern society, (and some not so modern), have been poured into it. It's basically speeded up blues with classical, jazz...everything thrown into it. If you can flail away and make the hair on people's arm stand up, it's rock n' roll. There's just nothing else like it. There's nothing old school about it in my book! Seeing somebody, perhaps you, yes YOU burning up 32nd notes while an entire stadium goes ape-shit is cool!

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Reply:351 days 10 hours 8 minutes ago
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eh, i was thinking more hard rock style stuff myself, but that stuff coming back would not hurt either! i dont think there is NEAR enough of it. i think alter bridge is doing the best job of keeping rock alive right now.... and before them, it was creed. that should tell you something about mark tremonti!

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Reply:351 days 10 hours 5 minutes ago
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So your basically saying hip hop, rap, R&B are all shit and just all rock n roll?

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Reply:351 days 9 hours 33 minutes ago
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yes. that is exactly what i am saying.

just kidding. i just really think that rock is a great kind of music that has ENRICHED my life, and most of the catastophies i have seen that used to be good people seem to be influenced by the rap/ hip hop lifestyle.

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Reply:351 days 9 hours 46 minutes ago
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R&B is fine in my book. Hip Hop and Rap sucks in my book! But that's my book. Yours is probably different than mine. I just think that for far too long a particular type of music has been pushed to the side. Hip Hop and Rap have been pretty dominant over the past 20 years. They have a multitude of media outlets, basically taken from the rock genre.

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Reply:351 days 1 hours 26 minutes ago
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I think that you're all holding on to the idea that rock is the end all be all. There are many different genres with guitar minded folks in mind. I have listened to all forms of music, all my life, from the time I was introduced. I just wish that people would just listen without prejudice and realize there is music out there that is damn good without being ROCK.

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Reply:350 days 11 hours 11 minutes ago
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the fact is, some sound makes people feel different ways. and quite honestly, some of it annoys me. and there is no way in hell that you like ALL types of music from all around the world. that is just stupid. there is no way. and yes, it rather pisses me off that someone would think that i simply was predjudice against a form of music, and tyhat i gave it no chance before making a decision on what i thought about it. rock touches me, makes me feel good, bad, and everything in between, the music that i dont like makes me feel like hitting the artist in the head with a bat. as well, i listen to MANY other forms of music besides rock, both guitar driven and not. everything from blues, to jazz, to classical. so, in closing, i dont thinkk you have a right to incinuate that people on this site are simply predjudice against a form of music because "it isnt rock". most of us dont like rap because, well.... it sucks dick. that is our opinion of the muwsic after hearing it A LOT. there. im done.

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Reply:350 days 11 hours 7 minutes ago
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sorry, diddnt mean to be an ass. but i give ALL music a chance, usually many chances. and there are some types that i would abolish if i was a dictator.

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Reply:347 days 20 hours 23 minutes ago
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And this is why you are not a dictator, except in hell. But I was just stating my opinion of the whole cliche' "Rock is Dead" we must revive it. For me rock is just a name people have given a genre of music. I like rock just as much as the next man, but there are all types of music in my house. My daughter loves R & B, hip hop, techno, but now she askes me to put in "that jazz stuff, daddy." I introduced her to most of it. As a matter of fact the majority of her collection is from cds I gave her, or burned for her. She has to have music with words most of the time, but every now and again, we'll be riding in the car, and she will ask for Joe Satriani. But half of the "Rock" musicians who have made an impact expanded and expounded on other types of music, that they picked up in their travels. Led Zepplin didn't write just rock and roll, or blues. Jimmy Hendrix was more than just inside of a genre. The best music breaks all boundaries.

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Reply:351 days 1 hours 23 minutes ago
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I also wish that the hip hop/r & b genre had more people like Anthony Hammilton and Soulive, instead of soulless halfwits with "guns and bitches" on their mind.

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Reply:351 days 48 minutes ago
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I do not believe Rock is dead, I don't even think it's ill. Music cycles, remember disco,we heard the same things then, rock is dead. True, metal may never hit the heyday it had but is that what you want, remember there were a lot of crappy metal bands too. What happens is that the true believers in any style will carry on and carry on with not good music but great music. As long as there is a piece of wood with six strings stretched across it some kid is going to make noise with it and move whatever style they choose forward in a way that we can't imagine. I mean who saw Hendrix coming, or Ozzy, Public Enemy, Nirvana, or any of them. Don't worry rocks not dead its alive and this Christmas some kid is going to get his first guitar and change music again.

Reply:350 days 19 hours 39 minutes ago
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good point hippieway, the only thing is rock just keeps changing to something a little different. let us all hope it doesn't leave for good leaving us stuck with rap and hip-hop

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Reply:350 days 19 hours 31 minutes ago
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My hope is that everything becomes more regional again, meaning there will be more differentiation between bands from different areas. I feel that technology is getting all of in touch and at the same time dividing us up into more, smaller groups. Bands can make a living without a huge record deal now and I think that with a smaller following that still pays enough that bands will be allowed to be more experimental and original.
One trend I do see now is guitarists, rock guitarists, incorporating more electronic elements to their music, and not just by adding a drum machine and keyboards, but rather by using the guitar to make non-traditional guitar sounds more electronic in nature, not so much like the psychedelia of the 60s.

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Reply:350 days 19 hours 4 minutes ago
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"My hope is that everything becomes more regional again, meaning there will be more differentiation between bands from different areas."

Amen... I'll second that.

Reply:350 days 18 hours 22 minutes ago
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I want to incorporate electronic beats, with blues funk, jazz. I love electronic drums. It would have a little bit of the 80s flare and a little deep roots delta blues going on. Don't get me wrong, I love acoustic drums, but I would want to recruit both into my repetoire. But jazz and funk bass, along the edge of a good trip hop beat, with a little over the top melody infused with some good Santana like lead, fading in and out with some trumpet. That's where I am headed. Maybe some odd ball poetry read over the top, kind of a Jim Morrison, "Lizard King" kind of thing, but 2000s style. OOooohh Yeeah.

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Reply:350 days 17 hours 38 minutes ago
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We're in a global community. Reigonal music will never again be regional. All music now has a global reach, thanks to Pandora, Youtube, and others.

Personally, I think it's a good thing.

Otherwise, I would have never been exposed to northern European Gothic Metal. I love that stuff! Evenscence just doesn't measure up, IMHO.

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Reply:350 days 13 hours 8 minutes ago
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You kinda made my point a little. You had access to youtube and were able to get something other than what is played here-Evanescence. By regional I meant more scenes. You don't have to join a scene anymore, you just create your own and broadcast it to the world. It is awesome.

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Reply:350 days 17 hours 34 minutes ago
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I have to agree there, DCunning. I think that regional music even bands that shouldn't reach a broader audience, are going to because of the internet. Now we can just change the webpage, if you will, to tune into something new. I think that the way of the Great Rock and Roll Star might be a greater path, and you will actually have to be better than others to get noticed. Unique.

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Reply:350 days 10 hours 20 minutes ago
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Well, empty-v was like that when it first started, though people didn't have the access the internet gives them. Still empty-v would play just about anything when it first started and bands that people would NEVER have heard of became mega-stars overnight. But then viacom bought it out and turned that station to crap at the speed of light. As for hip-hop, I would build the case that many people who listen to hip-hop have no tolerance for anything else themselves. They don't want to hear Rock, Jazz, R&B, certainly not Country. No, they just want to hear somebody bust out a rhyme and if other people say that, that music sucks...well, they're the intolerant one. I just don't like hearing some guy singi..er..yelling about poppin' a tool on another guy cause he's gotta' get rich or die tryin', rap sucks!

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Reply:350 days 9 hours 19 minutes ago
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I don't know, I just know that my need to rock overcame world of warcraft even...

Rock is a force of nature... What's the future hold for an elemental force? I don't fucking know, who cares, getcher axe crank yer amp and unleash...

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Reply:350 days 7 hours 33 minutes ago
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All the way to 11!!!!

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Reply:350 days 5 hours 15 minutes ago
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One of the things I've discovered is that many things in life are cyclic. Things go away for awhile, then they come back. Maybe a little different, maybe a little better or worse but they always come back. The guitar solo will be back, too many people out there want them and enjoy listening to and playing them.

It really warmed my heart when I went to the Masters of Metal tour. I saw people who weren't even born when Black Sabbath released Heaven and Hell but they were there banging their heads right along with us old fuckers.

Look around at all the vintage T-shirts and shit that are selling now. Everything comes back around at some point. Hell, nobody thought they'd ever see bell-bottom jeans again but they were everywhere a couple years ago.

LONG LIVE ROCK!!!!!

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Reply:349 days 15 hours 43 minutes ago
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what would be cool is if music changed just a slight bit so it would all mix together kind of like flobots with the rap and rock mix with violins

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Reply:349 days 5 hours 31 minutes ago
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Well one`s sure and that`s there`ll never be good rock as it was from 1970 to 1980.That music will never come back.Neither will concerts with 500.000 people.

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Reply:349 days 4 hours 23 minutes ago
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I think Erk's right. Things do go in cycles. Rock n' roll is fun and it's powerful. When I go to a music store I hear young guys playing riffs and songs that are twice as old as they are. Rock n' roll, hard rock, heavy metal is just cool, no matter who's doing it. I think we just had to wait for it to go out of style for about 20 years, (not that it ever did with me!), so that it can be re-discovered. It won't be exactally the same, nothing ever is, but I think solos will make a comeback.

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Reply:347 days 18 hours 51 minutes ago
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Blah! Rock and Roll will survive! Look to these kids to carry on the cause!

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Reply:347 days 17 hours 36 minutes ago
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I sure hope headbands are part of Rock's revival ..........

Reply:347 days 17 hours 19 minutes ago
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Sorry, headbands, leather vests, tie dye shirts, anything with the Harley Davidson logo on it, will not be part of the revival. But they will automatically identify the wearer as an aging rocker.

Though I'm advancing in age, I avoid those cliches at all costs!

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Reply:347 days 16 hours 54 minutes ago
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"But they will automatically identify the wearer as an aging rocker."

What about bell bottoms and tie dye shirts? I see all sorts of kids going "retro."

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Reply:347 days 16 hours 24 minutes ago
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ooo, and leather jackets with fringe down both arms and across the back

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Reply:347 days 16 hours 1 minutes ago
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I guess it's the area. All I see where I live is this!

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Reply:347 days 15 hours 51 minutes ago
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Is that goth or emo? Maybe it's Gemoth.

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Reply:346 days 22 hours 2 minutes ago
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All the tight jeans, vans, eye liner, tight tee shirt and the necessary mop top that sometimes can cover one eye, we're talking emo.

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Reply:347 days 17 hours 31 minutes ago
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satan that isnt true...rock just went back under ground and you really have to look for it. there are some EXCELLENT bands that have come around lately and came around when rap and pop were huge. but its an evolution of rock music these days meaning that bands are putting electronics and noises and weird instruments in their songs and mixing in house and rap beats. and thats whats coming next. hardcore mixed with indie and a vocoder. mark my words home boys...

if we all sounded like an 80s metal band there would be no evolution and no new thinkers so dont go on and on about metallica and blah blah just because the kids these days are fucking shit up in their own way. gotta move with the times.

plus, beat machines are FUN!

Reply:347 days 17 hours 24 minutes ago
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Yes, beat machines are fun-- as are cowbells and bagpipes.

Difference is -- you need batteries for the beat machine to give you a headache.

Reply:347 days 17 hours 23 minutes ago
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im not saying stay like 80's metal... i love new metal and rock. alter bridge, POD, lamb of god, KORN, ETC. i thik it is really good stuff, and i have to admit, i have a major soft dpot for rock bands with female singers.. I.E. Evanescence, Paramore, Flyleaf. these are i think the most positive things we have had around in a while in music. cmon liz! you are the same age as me! i know you remember the good ol' days of rock and grunge!

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Reply:347 days 17 hours 17 minutes ago
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lol yeah I do but the only "grunge" I listened to was nirvana...and the rock you listen to is totally different from me (besides paramore) I like bands like GlassJAw and Chiodos and Neutral milk hotel. indie type stuff. I havent listened to any type of radio since grammer school because all the "rock" thats on the radio is corporate copy machine rock. no one tries to think outside the box! I want a rock band with an accordion to melt my face thats what I want!!! haha i wish i was kidding about that last statement. I love accordions lol

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I like accordions. Just not in my rock.

Besides. I don't listen to rock, nor rock and roll. I take my music metal, and I want it extreme. It's not worth listening to unless it has blastbeats. But I do make an exception for Pantera. but I saw the Pantera video of Domination. I think I saw Vinnie Paul throwing down some blasts!

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Reply:347 days 17 hours 15 minutes ago
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oh my god. i dont know what to say, except that im disapointed on at least 3 or 4 diferent levels....

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Reply:347 days 16 hours 41 minutes ago
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I prefer rocks to be in accordions. Preferably large ones --- thrown at great velocity.

Now polka -music ..... ? Different story .....

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I think one of the problems I have with today's metal are the singers. They all sound the same to me. Nobody wants to be different. They never sing, they just growl into the mic like they swallowed a cup full of broken glass and rubbing alcohol before they went out, and of course, they need drop -D(ead) tuning, can't do without that!

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Reply:347 days 16 hours 26 minutes ago
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mudvayne is crap crap crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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wait no one else thinks accordions are cool? outside the box guys think outside the box!

Reply:347 days 16 hours 19 minutes ago
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Now this band's singer sounds completely different....

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Reply:346 days 22 hours 7 minutes ago
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Old tune, still sounds great!

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Reply:346 days 20 hours 13 minutes ago
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I always did like the song and he does do a lot of actual singing, so I'm not sure if that was a good example. I have respect for most of the bands I've shown, I'm just saying there's a sound that seems to be incredibly generic in metal these days. These guys have enough talent to do something different from the others.

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Reply:347 days 16 hours 12 minutes ago
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Pantera - Mouth for War - Click here for more free videos

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Now this singer is in a class all his own...

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Reply:346 days 21 hours 58 minutes ago
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Great tune, but the folks close to Dimebag tend to blame Plil Anselmo for the mess that ended up leading to Dimebag's death. I read in a mag that Anselmo requested to attend Dimebag's funural, and was told that he wasn't welcome.

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Reply:347 days 15 hours 31 minutes ago
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seriously liz..... you need to end this whole "think outside the box" thing... i picture you as a hippie right now...... a horrible, horrible hippie......... that like acordians! there is a reason they are uncommon! THEY SUCK!

fred.... i cant see the video above, but i see the title, and it is aparently panteras "mouth for war" are you insulting pantera!?!?!?! NOOOOOO!

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Reply:347 days 14 hours 7 minutes ago
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The vids will be fixed soon...don't worry.

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Reply:347 days 15 hours 17 minutes ago
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No. I'm not insulting Pantera. I think Dimebag was one of the best guitarists to hit the scene in a very long time. It's mainly the singers for me, that and the whole metal sound. Pantera was one of the first groups to use that sound. It's a cool sound! It was a really cool sound the first 300 times I heard it. It's just that the metal scene has become so generic to me. Very cookie cutter. Pantera does it, so we'll do it. It's like back in the 80's when VH and Randy Rhoads were doing their thing....then everybody else starts trying to sound exactly like them, (which they never actually could), the next thing you know you have one band after another with blond, spandex clad singers with VH knock offs whose soul purpose is to sound like Ed, only faster, with guitars that had better paint jobs.

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Reply:347 days 15 hours ago
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i am a hippie i guess. oh well.

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are you like a real sexy Eddie Brickel Hippie OR...like a Hairy GRateful Dead free flowing whore type with Patchouli to cover up the smell of not bathing? ...or somehwere in the middle? I like them all just wanderng where you fit in Liz.

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Reply:347 days 13 hours 31 minutes ago
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ummm im a hoodie and jeans type with tattoos?

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Heh, Tattoos Kick Ass!!!

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Reply:347 days 14 hours 24 minutes ago
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Music is affected by whats going in in the world and peoples lifes. I am too young to have been in the 80's and i feel like i missed out on the classic metal. i was buying Death Magnetic and the next day i asked if anyone got MetallicA's new cd and they asked, "whose Metallica?". Bands like Machine Head, Seether are replacing bands like Slayer and Nirvana and they do a good job. They put feeling in their music but most rap(not all) talks about bitches and the "streets". Plus rap makes white people look retarded when they try to Soulja Boy.

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Reply:347 days 14 hours 15 minutes ago
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Wait are we talkng Rock or Rock N Roll?????????? ROck N Roll is DEAD I beat it with my grandmom's wiffle bat. Du Whap Du whap...He, He what do you call rock n roll and rock too many faCETS...Rock will never die! LONG LIVE ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are so many forms and think new music will continue to develop but n different ways. almost don't want to say this but I think a funky pro rock with a good beat that you can dance too but with ecclectic mixes (oops I just describe the direction my bands heading he he) will be what rules!!! Nah who knows. listen to pop and I literally vomit but then again where the hell did that come from? And some pop isn't bad..Don't tell anyone but i like Sexy Back! I'll do a hard rock cover of that! Still Britney and all those glam girls based their pop on soul singing and gospel so its hard to say. What's popular (sells music these days) doesn't fit most of the population of this site because well we are guitarists. Guitar and other reall instruments are used less and less because of all the crazy things you can too easly develop with a keyboard..We are all lazy!!!So I think the entire keyboard thing wll die and people will want to hear real Fusion types with real horns and real guitars etc. Let's face it Techno already died out didn't it? I would like to see popular music in general to be something that I like but that isn't the case right now...but there will always be great bands as there are now...just not in the man stream of popular music....Bottom line, no matter what happens there will always be guys like us top keep rock and yes Rock N ROOOLLLLLL alive.

Satan will keep Rock alive. When rock dies we will all going straight to heaven...and we don't want that!

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Reply:347 days 13 hours 48 minutes ago
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Fred you tell me you don't think Cherl Crow is still hot????? That's her in the pic isn't it?

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Reply:347 days 12 hours 35 minutes ago
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Hotter than a $2 pistol!!! I still can't believe that woman is in her mid 40's.

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I have to say I agree with SATAN's view on rap/hiphop culture. Come to think of it, many (certainly not all) of the younger people out there that like this stuff seem to have a lack of respect for anyone or anything... of course that may be bad parenting.

I remember they used to say the same things about kids who listened to Metal back in the 80's/90's and of course blamed the music... but you know what...morbid sense of humour aside - I turned out fine and many of my friends did.

I think the vocalist from GWAR said it best when a parent on Gerry Springer blamed them for all that is wrong with todays youth when he said "If you raised your kid right, he wouldn't want to listen to GWAR".

now as for the future of rock n roll... I don't see it completely going away. At worst, it gets sidelined in much the way that blues and jazz have...still there lurking in the shadows and occasionally making it's presence known with rock's modern/future equivalents to SRV or Miles Davis.

At best, I see rock incorporating the better qualities of the rap/hiphop sound and adapting once again in order to stay fresh...like it has with each decade over the last 50 - 60 years.

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Reply:347 days 12 hours 53 minutes ago
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thats not a hippie! your a rocker! a rocker with a problem! (the acordian thing) i usually am attracted to girls that wear hoodies and have tattoos... but alas, a girl with both of those things and an acordian in her hand, i would pass on.... on the crazy/hot scale... she would be too crazy... lol...j/k

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Reply:347 days 12 hours 50 minutes ago
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haha its ok my feelings are not hurt. trust me. youre not my type anyway. no boobs hahah

Reply:347 days 12 hours 22 minutes ago
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Oh, now I'm really getting excited!

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Reply:347 days 12 hours 21 minutes ago
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you would be surprised... i have some pretty spiffy MOOBS.

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Reply:347 days 12 hours 10 minutes ago
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hahaha HOT!

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I love fun bags!

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Reply:346 days 21 hours 38 minutes ago
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80's hair metal WILL return, and they'll all be playing Dean MLs!

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Rock 'n' Roll ain't noise pollution.
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Reply:346 days 14 hours 52 minutes ago
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I saw Cold War Kids and Franz Ferdinand last night. Rock is alive and well.

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