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Originally Posted by Mutt
i asked a 19 year old the other day on MyFreeCams to name the members of the Beatles and she did correctly. lots of today's kids like and know classic rock. of course lots don't.
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Yep, thanks to "Guitar Hero" my teenage daughter knows all the classic rock bands.
And thanks to the movie "Across The Universe" that came out a couple of years back, she and all her friends know about and love The Beatles.
Those "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" video games turned millions of teenage kids onto classic rock music. And they all love it. Listening to these highschool kids talk about those great songs and discussing how the new bands aren't as good really shows me that it's not me being "old" or "not getting it".
When 16 year olds in highschool are saying the same thing as I am...then it's not just a generation gap...the truth is that most of the stuff out today is contrived and calculated. It's pure crap.
And when these young kids hear music that was actually made and produced by bands like the Stones, they recognize the difference and hear the freedom in the music.
I can't even imagine a pop band just laying down a groove on a record and letting it roll for 3 or 4 minutes of jamming in 2013 like The Stones did, or Zeppelin did on their albums. And I'm not talking about any of you guys giving me some example of an obscure band with an album that sold a couple hundred copies.
I'm talking about albums by The Stones and Zep and others of that period that were number one albums and sold millions.
Todays homogenized music scene won't allow an artist to stretch out like bands used to.