Will Rock Music Ever Come Back? 

I mostly think its just incredibly difficult these days to create something unique and new. Rock genres are increasingly hard to invent. Grunge was probably the last one, but even it was mostly a mish mash of other styles. But yeah modern culture does not help.

Right the younger generation ain't got no soul look into there empty eyes. hip hop sucks... what i want understand is how caucasian kids identify with hip hop culture hip hop is black and brown culture how can white kids identify? As far as country I guess that's for the white kids that don't identify with hip hop

@@rrf6747 No, hip-hop doesn't suck. You just don't like it, and hey, that's totally cool. At the same time you might want to examine why it strikes you so. Of course, white kids are not hip-hop's primary audience, so the question why do they listen to it, and what are they drawing from it, needs to be asked. That's a huge question. We're not going to attempt to answer it now. I'll pose a different question: Is the dream imagined by Dr. Martin Luther King being achieved through hip-hop? Young Americans are thinking about race differently. Outmoded thinking about race is being challenged, and hip-hop is an important component of that. Further, Hip-hop exposes uncomfortable truths about America's relationship to its black citizens. It might be fruitful to ponder those things. Or not. You'd have to first listen to some of the artists creating that music. But that's not likely to happen because you've already said "it sucks".

@@chazsmith20 🤘👏👏 well said mr. Smith

@@kj4726 yes it does suck.. as far as black America goes the playing field has been level for some time now and the victim card is still played... anyway back to music I believe that rock music will have resurgence eventually

they only taught music to be used as an adjunct to the stupid football games. "sometimes i feel like i'm just being used." comes to mind. march around and blow a horn.

They can do it on a computer now

I disagree, I don't think you can force someone to be passionate about music by teaching it to them before they're old enough to enjoy music on their own.

I agree. Teaching (not forcing like Turkeys wrote in their comments) is where it is at. Kids don’t have to become musicians from early music classes but it sure does help their brains overall. Music appreciation and listening classes, rather than learning an instrument, could also help. By Turkeys thoughts, we are also forcing kids to learn the English language, Maths, etc. If it helps develop a better human being, it has a place in education. (No offence, Turkey, you have a point and many kids felt the way you describe which is a result more of poor teaching than the subject being taught.) I believe that humans need good music like we need water and food and oxygen. Could the lack of great music, lifting our spirits daily on the radio, be part of the reason so many are unhappy these days? Depression seems at an all time high. We need a renaissance.

Agreed! 💯💯

Obviously there will always be rock. The question is will good rock ever be mainstream again

@@DynamiteProddoes it really matter? If the music is good then who really cares whether millions of people are listening to it or not

Unfortunately, none of them sound like anything that couldn’t have existed 30 years ago. The problem with rock is that it lives in the past. As long as rock lives in the past, it will remain culturally irrelevant.

There are acts that exist today that I don't think sound like things from the past 30 years. All genres and acts have innovated on the past nothing is ever truly new or original. There are only so many chords and only so many pitches the human ear can hear. Its how you twist things and what combo of instrumentation you use. I definitely heard some interesting things that are current that have put new spin on things

That's not the point. The point is, we don't all know any of these rock bands like everyone knew led zeppelin, the Beatles, etc.

I agree with you...there's always a return to earlier rock & blues...disco was popular & people quickly got tired of it, there was the whole new wave movement, then return to rock, & it will continue to go back and forth. My friends & I grew up with rock, soul & R&B, punk, new wave, grunge & industrial rock, rap & hip hop, yet, we were nerdy enough to like blues, jazz, bluegrass & old timey country from 20s & 30s thru 70s/80s/90s up to present (still love Jones, Cash, Waylon & Willie, Haggard, all 3 Hank Williams & Kriss Kriss), swing & big band, the crooners (like Sinatra & Bing), Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, we liked old musical soundtracks, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel, Carole King, & I personally, listen to all musical genres & musical eras from Medieval/Renaissance/Celtic/Old English Folk thru classical & opera to the country & pop music of today. My children grew up with a wide range of music, as well as films (art house, foreign, Shakespeare brought to the screen included) & play instruments, therefore, they too have a broad musical range of interest & preferences which exposes their children (who are now playing musical instruments & in choir) to a broader & more colorful spectrum of older musical references to use for their music writing & performance.

I hope you’re right.

My Grandchildren and my great grandchildren are more likely to listen to 50 year old music than any other, if asked about any music from the 80's and 90's even they will be able to tell you plenty of the songs they listen to from then. Ask them what is number 1 in the charts they look at you and say "no clue".

Exactly it’s still around it’s just an underground genre now and honestly that’s where it belongs lol 😂

Well, think about what happened with jazz since the 60s. Jazz fusion become really popular in the 80s with acts like Kenny G. Boom bap and a lot of old school Hip Hop in the 90s heavily sampled and was influenced by the swing of jazz. Maybe the 2020s will feature rock sensibilities more prominently with rock and punk influenced pop artists having more rock-driven songs making it to the charts (Olivia Rodrigo, WILLOW, *maybe* Billie Eilish, etc.).

@@_PuppetMaster86 Gen Z musicians are kind of fusing elements of rock, hip hop, and electronic music. We are also in a golden age of gear too a revolution is on its way again

When I was a teen in the 70's,there was a lot of Blues based bands and solos.Everything from Ten Years After,to the Butterfield Blues Band,to Canned Heat to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac,etc.But now,looking back,although they did influence others,it seems like such a fad.And it went where where other fads and cultural phenomena go to die.

I'm interested to see how Puth and Lamar might have some longer term effect on pop actually sounding more like jazz. Couple that with the growing appreciation of VGM, much of which is steeped in jazz, and I think the kids these days will return to jazz. Check out The Consouls, J-Music Ensemble, 8-Bit Big Band etc who all do jazz covers of VGM - kids are really into the jazz with VGM as the 'standards'.

Who are their favorite artists?

I'm interested can you give an example? Like new bands?

where does it spike? without the old radio/dj system or even MTV we won't have and feel the same impact from Rock bands as we have known. Good rock bands have always been around, by the way.

Also, it seems college radio is kinda dead which is where I first heard so many bands in mid and late 80s from Nirvanas Bleach to the Pixies.

@@coolhandlucas4148 last year Måneskin won the Eurovision Songfestival with a nice hard-rock song. The last twenty years or so usually only ballads and cheesy music win, but this time rock won again!

IT WILL LIVE ONNNNN

So true. My problem with influencers is that many don't have seem to have an actual skill! It took the highly skilled and talented Snarky Puppy 10 years to earn money from music while an influencer who has had surgery in the right places can gain a huge following in months!

and what's wrong with that? there is so much rock music in tiktok by the way, especially pop punk and metal. and instead of complaining about influencers and social media i suggest rock musicians should be social media influencers themselves. the rock artists that talk with their fans in twitch like Ronnie Radke or help inspire new tiktok artists like Travis Barker are my kind of rockstars, the rock stars that think they're too big and too good to do so are the only one who are dying.

@@ayhamkimo4488 My 'hobby' for the last ten years has been supporting young live musicians, which has opened my mind up to listening to genres I'd not listened to before, Jazz, EDM, Big Band. I no longer spend the hundreds paying for acts who are no longer what they were. I invest my support into younger acts. Those old acts who charge hundreds for nosebleed seats haven't been about the music for years, so I'm glad to put my money into inspired, energetic and new music of today's younger artists

@ghost mall Rock'n Roll lives, but like an endangered species of butterfly. Old people aren't being pissed off because new stuff is too avant-guard. They're moaning because the new music isn't disruptive enough.

@@HaleysTusk that's great, younger bands need our support especially while performing live, i still like old bands too but i like them more if they're involved with the new generation. tiktok and social media isn't the problem here it's just a tool and many new musicians use that tool to get traction, nothing wrong with that. the solution for rock bands who are complaining about social media is to get more tech savvy and use this social media themselves or they will be left behind, both new and old rock artists should learn that.

To play devils advocate, I’d say I feel better to have grown in the 90s and early 2000s because I had a bigger selection of music to choose from. Those same albums you like were classics to me as well. Also, apart from a few bands, it is like Rick said that these bands never stop touring so I could see them live as well as the concerts of my generation. I think everyone gets nostalgic for their own time and thinks the best music was during their own time. The advancement of technology has allowed a lot more people and groups to bring their music to an audience and I think we are all better for it. Sometimes it’s difficult to sort out the gems from the crap but it makes it that much sweeter when you find that new song or band that you like.

Well I am pretty lucky as well being in the 2010s I cab search up entire albums on youtube from the past, even if the music at present is not good

@@johnxina5126 there is a ton of good music now. You just have to take the time to find it

@@ldreamxtheaterl5587 both, i had much fun in the 70´s as i did in the 90´s both two decades that i would like to have memory´s but they ended very rapidly,mainly the drugs were the same and the music scene was turned into classic, punk and progressive rock, from RAM JAM to KYUSS that band that had an lp that was king of the road ,and the mainstream not from women but from the topeless case of a kid denial ,party hard and punk rock song or united states of whatever ,all rocked ,endless days one could went for a beer after work monday afternoon and then one would think it´s 7 o´clock and tomorrow it´s saturday? ,but how can this be ,that´s why it ended faster than other decades and LSD helped

Music as a whole needs to be like that again classics being dropped occasionally well mainstream music should be like that

Young people today listen to loads of music all the time, everyday. There definitely is an appetite for rock music, it's just about getting notoriety out to people. And with that being said, I think rock media hasn't been very good at showcasing what young rock listeners want.

Yeah, rock is not that good for background music.

I agree there are more distractions but young people from many different demographics are engaged in Rap, Hip-Hop and modern Pop moreso than Rock music. There has to be a reason for this trend.

@@BryanFink1 You are so right! I touched on that a bit, regarding what you said, in the thing I wrote here. But I warn you it's long and it's too hard here on YT to edit things properly at all, as I would like to do. So don't read it if you are averse to that length of thing. Stupid me, I'm tired. I'm sorry it's so long. I know it nearly always seems like nobody is writing good new Rock songs, nevermind albums. But if you go to any big folk festival you can hear it in at least some of the songs there. It's just not labelled as Rock anymore, and it doesn't usually doesn't fill any artist's entire set (or their catalogue.) You will hear some rockin' songs though. And everyone responds to them! You can see the whole audience's attention is sparked by those songs! People who were stuck in their phones lift their heads together. They start dancing in their seats, and then in the aisles. Then the applause is much stronger than for other songs, with more whistles, yells, and woo hoos! The age level at folk festivals has really fallen, but not the attendance. The boomers aren't showing up as much, although some still go, but the young adults and smaller children are still there in droves. I hope they're buying CDs or getting the music into their homes online, to the same extent that CDs or albums can, because it looks like most people just don't listen to music as much any more, and it's SO important! So good for the soul! Radio is played so much less, because all the music radio is crap. Most music is listened to on head or ear phones, and all alone. It's never a group thing anymore, and it never fills a house. That might interfere with people who are trying their best to block everyone else out on their various computers. Combine that with the drastic decline in quality of music overall, and you might have one of the big answers to why society is the way it is today. Of course I don't expect a lot of teens to be at folk festivals, for several reasons, although I'm glad about the ones who do go, and if young adults keep bringing their younger kids to folk festivals, at least they'll keep getting exposure there to a wide variety of influences at an important age. I've always just loved folk fests for a ton of reasons, including that. It's not enough though. I'm not familiar with the American folk festivals, but WOMAD (started by Peter Gabriel) does fantastic World Music festivals world wide. There are TONS of folk festivals in Canada, big and small, and all of them are wonderful! Because of my limitted experience with the smaller ones, I can't say if you will hear any or much Rock influenced music at those ones, but I expect so because at the festivals in the bigger cities you most certainly do. There is nothing that brings the crowd alive like a good Rock inflenced song, whatever it's called! People leave the food lines and beer tent to go back to the stage area. The organizers know that, and wanting to always end it on a high note, they schedule those artists to be the last performer of the day or the festival, or very close to it. Invariably the most rocking ones are near the end, if not last. So the effect on the ears and the psyche is still there, but if the same artists perform at a concert called a Rockfest, the attendance is much less. Young people are generally embarrassed to be seen there. And that's not surprising, considerring that there are SO MANY more assholes around now than there were when Rock was big, or ever before in history. Even though a lot of what came before our time was crap, we didn't call it that, and we didn't insult the people who liked it. We just didn't listen to it. The rise of the right wing has effected everything. I don't know what their problem is. Anger for sure. Lots of it. Misdirected anger. Their propensity to ridicule everything in every part of life includes music that doesn't conform to their narrowminded tastes. They only like things like rap, and anthem type stuff, like "We will, we will rock you, we will, we will rock you... ...We are the champions, we are the champions of the world ! ! ! ! !" How creative! Ugh! The Africanized beats that so many people use because they're SO creative and varied is a really big component of a LOT of rock, and it can also be heard at folk fests in so many different genres, because folk musicians are not at all shy to mix genres. Many bands have mixed influences from all over the world, and created the most interesting music ever! Many of the best Rock artists have gone nearly completely over to "World Music", most notably Peter Gabriel, who got his start and spent many years as well known Rock artist. His World Music and his World influenced stuff is so top notch! I could listen to him all day every day! And to the people he's chosen to work with or to mentor through his company WOMAD, meaning World Of Music And Dance. Rock music is heavily influenced by African drumming and guitar, which is where the blues came from. People always point to the American roots, but that stuff came directly from Africa, and if you listen to African music you just can't avoid hearing it. It so complex and so wonderful! The fact that Folk and World Music of all kinds now blend all the influences is exactly what I loved so much about Rock, especially Progressive Rock. So as long as Folk Festivals are still popular, which can only happen if people are still writing great Folk songs, I will still have hope. Maybe the name that's used will be different, but I badly need a steady influx of new and interesting Rock, so even though I'm not religious, I'll make an exception, and I'll keep praying for a really big resurgence of it! Sorry to be so lengthy.

​@@RoboStukBackground music is what caught my attention. Rick has been talking a lot about how music fans would focus on the music and how times have changed. Interestingly, my taste in music will also depend on what is suitable for the background. As a musician, I analyze music to death and I have difficulty enjoying it unless I'm performing. So background music is what I prefer.

Trip hop has a great following in Europe.

It was a niche Bristol movement, Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead, born from a small crew from Bristol (that included Drum n Bass legend Goldie) who loved 80s hip-hop, graffiti... It was of its time and very isolated in Bristol. Rumour has it Banksy was part of the crew.

A lot from your neck of the woods, too (As per ur YT-handle)

It just depends on when people are ready for it.

You're still waiting?

You value how a song affects you emotionally. That's fair. But, if emotionally evocative songs did anything other than titillate us, the world would be in love. You like rocknroll. I do too.

But Dan, you changed the whole narrative of his point. The point IS that not enough people like it and therefore it will never have the chart topping overall acceptance that it once had from young people. You can name all of the obscure bands that you want, but that doesn't change his point or the facts. There are no rock stars. None. I'm glad you're finding things to like but there was a day that I'm sure you remember that we didn't have to look under rocks to find quality rock music.

Dan, I do think there are some young, creative rock groups starting to generate interest: Warning, Liliac, Greta Van Fleet. But individual stars are needed. I would propose 17 year old Courtney Hadwin who has a gritty powerhouse of a voice unlike any and an album about to drop for her fans who have viewed her social media videos over 2 billion times. Courtney was on the bill for Woodstock50 until it crashed financially. The pandemic has badly affected the development and exposure of these young stars, but that is hopefully easing. I think the coming future of music will be for lanes and blends of different styles without a hugely dominant one.

Not dead overseas, my musician husband traveled to get the appreciation he deserved & they love Blues too, that hasn't changed. I think we're a bit spoiled here in the US and we take our culture for granted that it will always 'be there' when it's convenient.

And don’t forget way back in the day I mean way way back in the 50s more people probably went to see live rock ‘n roll bands and played records. Moving way forward into the future 90s, 2000s, there are so many ways to listen to music and with good to great sounding equipment, people become couch potatoes and would rather sit home listening to the music then go out and see it live. I admit It’s way easier to use my iPhone to stream a Miles album to my rather high-end stereo system and just lay back than to go out to listen to a jazz band.

Jazz certainly isn't dead in certain places. Particularly like Paris and New Orleans. Montreal & Amsterdam as well.

Jazz rocks.

you don't have to make formulaic and over produced rock music. Play the rock you want to play.

Same here. Sold gear for college and started up again during Covid . Music brings so much joy to life . I forgot . Enjoy!

@@laurah6977 you too.

It is interesting what the pandemic has done to people. I personally ignored it from day 1, never wearing masks and not following any of the rules. It is cause I have no fear of the virus. Yeah I was chased by police for not wearing a mask on a college campus something I will never forget. They hunted me through the woods. Four grown men armed chasing me in the forest were I evaded being captured. I thought come Jan 4, I would lose my job for refusing to be injected but thank God for now, Biden's evil plan failed.

Even in my home city, I can't eat at restaurants because you must show proof of being injected and places like NYC someone like me is banned. My Hyno Designs channel which after having 70 million views was deleted by RU-vid. I made one last comeback. Before CV-19, I uploaded a ton of new remastered videos and during the lockdown, I got millions of views than like always the powers that be didn't like it so they closed me down. On this stupid super old back up channel, I had a private video I recorded of a conversation at work with a client. RU-vid deemed it hate speech and I got a strike.

@@HynoDesignsvIII RU-vid (and by extension Google) plays by any rules they want, they simply invent them as they go. If they don't lean left, they're not right in their eyes (paradoxically speaking). And "hate speech" is anything that doesn't embrace progressive (Marxist) principles.

Awesome man, I've been playing since I was 10 and I still love it. Never too late to pick it up. I'm glad you did.

welcome to the show. it's a good one. I play keyboards and very basic guitar. definitely, knowing how to play changes the way you listen.

Man wait until you delve deeper into more experimental side of things. Once you come to appreciate it then it becomes better than sex and drugs combined.

@@krzysztof4114 cringe

@@ljones2087 yo mama

Do you have kids right now? A big chunk of the big record company hip hop and pop they are selling to kids would shock the most grizzled Gen Xer. It's hard to find pop music for kids to listen to. I don't think the record companies are afraid of edgy lyrics. It's changed a lot in the last decade

Is Dave Grohl cool? No.

there is no pissing off the establishment. america is a divided society, political music will means you're just pissing off the other part of the society and not every musician find that to be a good idea, some do though in every genre including rock

No copies deserve attention. Greta van fleet deserves to be destroyed and sued. This is another big reason why rock is suffering, there's little progression in the genre with all you people complaining about wanting the old sound.

yeah, but it's a question of philosophy/ethics/morality. I am alluding to a classic question in ethics. If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? Rock is still "making a sound" as you suggest, like there are still great people rocking out...but, they are "trees" making sounds/music in a forest that no one can hear. They're not mainstream...therefore rock is dead. ..? That is the question.

​@@jettrink5810well if people went to go looking for the falling tree then the sound happens if you're worried that rock is dead... then revive it.

@@jettrink5810you have no idea what ethics mean

WHO!?! I can’t find a single rock band worth a damn that started their band in the last 5 years. Greta Van Fleet is okay but it’s a lame Led Zeppelin rip off

Well you can say waltzes never left by that logic. Rock is gone. Face up to it.

That's Yoyoka Soma.

@@NickNicometi we'll do a show together. Go out there like you lit yourself on fire and play your ass off to the masses of classes.

@@NickNicometi my pleasure. 😃

There are plenty, I'd wager that everyone commenting here could name 2 rock artists or bands that do something interesting and sound new. They're just not being pushed by labels cause it's cheaper to fund pop/hip hop artists than rock bands.

I miss voices that sound like adults.

well there are still artists that dont sound hyperproduced into blandness, you just have to look deeper

@ghost mall "You literally have access to pretty much the entirety of recorded popular music at your fingertips." I'd like to add: *and recorded obscure music as well.* I can easily imagine scenarios about what if internet doesn't exist; high chance, today I'm still stuck listening to Iyeth Bustami. Yet, I'm listening to Kisou-Yushi's album _Konohana Sakuya_ right now, a really obscure album which my Japanese music-loving friends don't even know about. So obscure that this artist only has two subscribers in RU-vid. How come I managed to find this? Internet, with a bit of luck. Really, some people don't understand that we are so lucky for living in this day and age, where we can find too many stuff just by typing, clicking, and moving cursor. Instead of spending some of their free time to look for something interesting, they decide to complain. ----------------------------------------------- We have this mighty gate in our fingertips, folks. Let's utilize it.

@@adityairawan1843 gonna check the japanese music out

I think that's why Rock music has faded from the mainstream, because Rock and Metal engineers bury the bass track, while other genres are centered on bass.

Yeah accept most bass tracks are just a single sustained notes these days.

Some great comments by some very intelligent people in this thread.

I plan to bring Rock back with Bass ...from my inner space...Gratitude and grace. SING👌

That’s what Davie504 said

Plush

Absolutely, GVF is carrying the torch for R&R. Great band.

I'm 66 years old and took my 23 yr old daughter to go see GVF and thought they were phenomenal.

@@miscemail2901 yes. I forgot about Plush. Moriah Formica is a solid rocker

It's not coming back. The last semi-big rock era ended in 2013. And even that was just niche rock. Really The White Stripes were the last big rock stars abs they feel out of favor around 2006.

Ditto, I love that rich vein of great US bands throw in Interpol, and My Morning Jacket too. I hope Rick can start covering that 2001-2008 period soon, including what makes this song great videos for those bands.

Interpol

@@Beckonor dude, it’s 20+ … why would you put that plus before the number hahaha you might as well just make it a greater than sign instead

Qotsa! They keep making amazing music!

The Italian band Måneskin, ouaw !

Maybe for rock, but people are definitely connecting and communicating through hip hop

Never has devolved. Just become obscured. There’s good bands out there putting out tunes still. Popular music has never really been where it’s at. Cult bands are the truest.

Very good point. That's definitely part of the equation.

@@p.ardens954 Yes, I can find tons of rock, country, folk, jazz, funk, ect... The problem is that I don't enjoy any of it. There's almost too much metal out there, but it's really the only scene I see thriving.

@@p.ardens954 I think you're misusing the term "clickbait." Clickbait is an empty story with a misleading headline that tricks readers into thinking the article has substance or content that it doesn't. This video isn't that, and I've never seen a Rick video that was clickbait. I think you owe him an apology. Moreover, the sorry state of rock music isn't a "non-existent problem" as you allege -- it it were, there wouldn't be millions of rock fans all over the world bemoaning how bad the genre has become and how much they miss the halcyon days when rock was vibrant, inventive, smart, authentic, and featured exceptional songwriting, musicianship and recordings (which it rarely does now). You can list all the bands you want that are "coming out with new music," but the problem is that most of it is dreck to anyone over the age of about 40 that recognizes and remembers what real talent looks and sounds like.

My attention span was long enough to listen to a double album. Depends on how much weed we smoked. The more we smoked the longer our attention span...

Now, more than ever, you're able to support bands directly. Whether it's through indie labels or even through Bandcamp. Vinyl is in extremely high demand too. So much that I've had to preorder records 6 months in advance. People still like buying records and merch.

Good point. Rock will be like the Blues.

What are you listening for newer hard rock?

@@pierre-claudemeriot6562 Try The Pretty Reckless' latest. It's incredible

@@arthurg7894 You must be trolling.

@@TT-df9hp Considering Rick has mentioned them before in other videos and said as much, no, I'm not. I could ask you the same thing about mentioning Queens of the Stone age but oh wait... that's your personal opinion. Just like mine. Huh. Interesting that art is subjective, no?

Look up black midi

I started a subreddit, r/newamericana in response to the little bits of pop rock that are coming back.

Yeah but key word, “pop” rock. It ain’t gonna be the good stuff, it’s just gonna be pop songs with distorted guitars and thicker sounding drums

@@footos8511 In other words, its gonna be like every band that existed from 1964-2004

@@neilpatrickhairless 50's rock was even more basic, listener friendly, and targeted to relate to your average teen, than 60's rock IMO.

@@footos8511 I'll agree that alot of the pop punk, post grunge revival stuff going on right now is cheesy but it's lyrics tens of millions of people can relate to, melodies tens of millions can hum. You can't say that of Slipknot or Trivium. Also keep in mind this can be a gateway, if someone likes a rock song by Olivia Rodrigo or Kid Laroi, they might now be able to get into some other bands that are more "serious." But if you just blast them with nothing but harsh rock/punk/metal, you're basically making sure they don't ever like it. What does make a song "the good stuff," anyway? Was there some kind of textbook I was supposed to read and academic test I was supposed to pass before being allowed to listen to music?

Yep that’s very true. I’m 17 years old, and I guess I’m a bit off for most kids my age, I started playing drums when I was about 8 yrs old, I was brought up listening to Foo Fighters, and even though Dave Grohl is a rockstar in his 50’s he’s my biggest idol. I love his drumming, and in the past two years I’ve picked up guitar. Now I’ve got my own Dave Grohl signature replica guitar and they’re still the main group I listen too to this day. The foos are the band that made it happen for me.

Exactly. It really is a shame, though. I've been playing drums for over 20 years and still play nearly every day, perfecting my craft and learning something new all the time.

Games are designed to be highly addictive. Methinks the key then, as a parent, would be to not get them into the habit of playing them. Maybe they still will after they are 18 and can do what they want, but hopefully you did your job as a parent and got them into different habits. But too many parents don't want to spend the time needed with their kids. They both work, they are tired, here, have a smartphone as a pacifier so I can have some me time. And then they wonder later in life why all their kids do is play games.

People don’t even play video games anymore nowadays because of the phones. That’s how bad it has truly gotten

That is cool to hear.

Most people that play guitar play rock. But theyre in the minority for this current generation.

That's interesting to me. I was raised on rock n' roll which became rock which branched into subsets of rock and it was a great great time. Classic rock I think will endure, whether we recreate it in some form or not.

Bro who tf want current rock it's harsh And who tf don't want 90s rock I mean there's many band legendary in 90s but I prefer nirvana🤘🤘

Yeah,, I've Seen it too.. there's a college just around the corner from my house, and whenever I go by there, I see zepelin,, Metallica,, acdc, g.n.r and nivarna t shirts everywhere.

You'd put a new album up leaning against the wall so you could look at the cover for a few weeks. It was a whole different thing. And there wasn't the access, not MTV or anything like that, you'd have to wait until a new album came out.

We got an education by reading the liner notes on those albums.

True...Bring back Korvettes!

Sometimes there was a poster, beatles white album..

I'm 17 and own around 300 vinyls and still go searching for them and know a lot of people who still do! All hope isn't lost.

there's hundreds of newer bands that play instruments. they're just not well known.

on the other side you have the growth of Djent and Technical Death Metal, where requiring more effort to play is a goal in itself

@@AnarchistMetalhead Yeah, but for me, most death metal [these days] is more about technique than being truly melodic, or even original.

You’re right, but it’s also a vicious cycle. If fewer kids are playing, then fewer are setting trends and in turn inspiring the next gen to WANT to play. We’re in the “diminishing returns” phase. Metal is doing great, btw! Metal guitar is MUCH harder and more challenging than “rock guitar”, especially if it’s extended range, etc.

@@51MontyPython I agree, mostly. But that doesn't mean he's wrong about how tough it is to play that style vs. "the Kinks" or even Punk. In other words, if a kid wants to play guitar at all these days, it's Metal they will play not Rock.

Yes, especially would love for him to interview Shirley Manson. She is one of my fave people ever.

Rock hasn't been the soundtrack of Anerican culture since the 90s. Without having seen the entire video, I'd say it's due to rock losing it's blues base, and not having a melody as part of the story.

Awesome! What's the name of your band? I'm doing a gig with my band this coming Saturday

@@NickNicometi you nailed it!!!! Old rock bands created a lie called COVID-19 to revive rock music!!!!!

Bang on. If you scout the Japanese market, Uk market it is there in various forms. Commercial radio, today is just run by fat greedy A and M people that can't be bothered taking a punt on a band.

Again we're interpreting it as a nepharious industry thing but people just don't want rock music. Rock music has kind of run its course and most rock music since the 90s has been less and less original. Rock stopped being fun since the 80s. It was still original in the 90s and 2000s, a lot of good new movements, but any bands people name to say "rock isn't dead" are literally just a rehash of what they liked as kids.

@@man4437 When you say a rehash of something. Music has always taken something away from its predecessors. Zeppelin stole the blues. The beatles started out playing Rock n roll. Then it evolves into something new. The only exceptions to this really are punk and grunge which both were a rebellion against conformity. That's what we need now.

At around 14 minutes you mentioned guitar sales. I picked up my dad's 50 maybe 60 plus year old Gibson J45 at age 45.

If rock music has run its course due to lack of originality, how the hell do pop & country get away with copy/pasting the same simple garbage for 40 years? All of human achievement capped by a teenager swearing along with a drum machine. Ugh.

On the contrary, making music digitally is cheap and flexible. It can really allow for the producer to show their artistic views. There are definitely pros and cons. The cons are that the results will be less organic. But it doesn't mean it won't portray any less emotion. Now , the sound of real instruments and vocals with little less compression will always be more human than the digital sounds. Because it can be played live, and because we hear the voices of real people in them. And generally, most people feel at home with that kind of music.

You came up in a great time sir, in my opinion it doesn’t get any better than rock and roll out of the 70s…Rock On

Cool changes over time what’s cool then isn’t now but that stuff comes back it ebbs and flows Yk

I really want you to be wrong but everything you said makes sense. I grew up in Greece, NY in the 70s and everything you described was factual. There’s simply not enough cream to rise to the top today. That coupled with the use of computers to develop music as opposed to the human brain and ear along eith the robotic enhanced voices pretty much dooms any comeback.

You can still see live bands. I did this past weekend. In fact, you can every weekend where I live.

@@bobbyd7524 You would have to go back in time to see the difference. I used a lot of qualifiers. Big city bands visiting medium town bars traveling a circuit. I'm talking about seasoned pros that are really, really good. People that do it as a career and it is the sole source of their income. I'm talking about it routinely happening. Everywhere. You don't know because you can't know. You never experienced it.

Very interesting! I've never heard someone put it that way

Mike, you are right in line with my view. Before the internet there were a handful of television stations, each town had a handful of radio stations, so the choices were more limited, and as you point out, more controlled. Today there are literally millions of streaming channels and the music that I am looking for is much harder to find, but it is still out there.

People rely on algorithms to make their decisions now because there's too many songs and artists to choose from. And those algorithms are 'curating', if you will. They also create echo chambers.

The younger generation is a mindless sea of robots. They want pop and rap that all sound the same.

Rock and Roll was born in the 50's, it was an adolescent in the 60's, it was a grown up in the 70's and dropped dead in the 80's.

Exactly, there is no common culture and a really big set of creators hawking their artistic endeavors through alternative channels.

There's a key word: algorithms are ruining human choice. It's like everytime you look for a healthy meal, someone comes and shoves a Big Mac in your mouth, just because you took a bite two weeks ago.

@ghost mall Perhaps an adult with self judgement has the ability to do that. But teenagers and young adults are easily influenced by the mainstream and from what’s “trending”.

@ghost mall Agreed. Marketing strategies are pretty much the same. The only thing that has changed are the platforms. If I used to listen Nevermind day and night until the tape worn out, I can’t imagine how many times does a kid taps the click button to hear the same trap song in a single day. No wonder why Disney songs have billions of views, which also have an impact on those stats. I can enjoy Abbey Road every couple of months, because I’ve heard plenty music to choose from. When you’re a kid and you’re just exploring music, every new release becomes an obsession, and there’s where the algorithm plays it’s part, maximizing the exposure of the user to the trend, like a sugar rush, so those numbers are not completely accurate, since some adults do not use social media.

The issues are with the genre's and sub-genre's!! Think of this term nowadays: "Mainstream"... It has a whole new meaning with the crap streaming services ruining music!!

Wonderful! Sounds like me at that age. Playing instruments really helped me a lot when growing up. They’re stress relief, creativity, and just fun.

Rock songs may not be chart toppers but they often have more longevity than other genres. Lava has The Warning signed to a five-album contract, which gives a lot of time to build an audience.

They need to just keep doing what they are doing and big success will follow. All the super great bands from Led Zeppelin to Van Halen to Queen to Nirvana to many others were either not together or unknown when they was at the age Dany (22) Pau (20) and Ale (17) are now. to paraphrase an Eric Church song " The Warning still have a lot of boot left to fill" but right now, they (and many other young bands) are sacrificing everything to hopefully see there dream come true. and just to be clear and transparent, I'm not suggesting or implying they compare to the bands I listed. although I do feel they are the most refreshing thing music wise to enter my life in almost three decades.

I feel the same about The Warning. Their passion and energy have me hooked. I stumbled across them while looking for Queensryche’s album “The Warning”. Saw the cover art for Queen Of The Murder Scene and thought it looked interesting. Listened to the first track and was blown away. They are currently my favorite band. My 12 year old son is really into them too.

Echoes is a journey in itself

Think about why we (people over 40) listened to music back in the day as kids. It was about rebellion. About expressing emotion and doing it as a community of fellow kids with our friends. Kids today don't have that. They don't have a force of rebellion. They replaced all of that with social media, RU-vid, Twitch, tik tok and massive amounts of anxiety. They don't cruise around and listen to music with their buds. They go around making silly videos to try to go viral on tik tok or RU-vid. The society completely changed and it was the internet/social media that changed it. I think a smaller part of it is there's nowhere else to take music. It was a source of rebellion against our parents. Rock turned into metal and hard metal. Our parents hated it. Rap turned into gangsta rap. Our parents hated it. And we loved that. That's all gone, can't get harder and more controversial than death metal and gangsta rap.

Pink Floyd was always a snooze fest to me. 😴😴, cure for insomnia.

​@@vicenzor3625 if you're goal is just to piss people off, your just no good. And billions are NO GOOD.

I remember the Sunset Strip scene in LA right at the crux of terrible 80's hair-band 'pop' metal, and grunge coming in. I swear, in my recollection every terrible hair-metal band that was trying to be the next 'Poison' - in the span of like a month, they had all cut their hair, put the makeup away, and donned flannel shirts, trying desperately to play what they thought was grunge. But I LOVE how Nirvana in my recollection killed all the lame hair-band crap that IMO would have finished off rock a lot sooner had it run its course.

This sounds like the plot to a movie I watched. 2013 CBGB. End of the disco era, music club gets famous by only letting original music into his club. It's where the Ramones, Blondie, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, and on, and on came from. It's a good movie to turn the sound up on and has a lot of great actors too. I guess that was the New York punk scene of the 70s and 80s. Some of the lesser knowns are in the movie too. Like Television and The Dead Boys. Great flick.

Whats a grunge? That died a LONG time ago.

That’s the problem they always ignore indie acts. It’s funny those acts have been rarely big since the 80s and accept new artists. From mgmt to tame impala to cigs after sex.

It’s still here in the uk definitely, but it’s not mainstream at all

He knows them well.

With auto tune and labels demanding safe, pop sounds.

nailed it.

@@GizzyDillespee great!