Where Did All the ROCK Bands Go?

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[arcenal_studios]

The irony is that rock is back where it started... as an underground style of music.

[TheophanyComedyGuru]

I'm uncomfortable with Marty holding a guitar the whole time, but never playing it

[SwP_]

Rock won’t die, we just missed the glory days

[why.]

Rock fan's aren't giving these new rock band's a chance that's why the industry doesn't focus on Rock anymore

[eliwallace]

Rock music isn't dead at all. There's a revival on the way, we're just keeping the scene alive underground right now.

[hardluckharris]

I saw Skynyrd and Black Berry Smoke last year. Both shows were packed. Rock is alive. Radio is dead. They only play trash.

[Camel.Yellow]

Rock isn't dead, rock as we know it is dead, frankly most genres are dead in terms of creativity, hip hop and pop are ridiculously saturated. i think a new type of rock will one day emerge

[MaxSnowDude]

We shouldn’t be sitting around!
Let’s start a rock revolution!

[gadgetguy]

Rock and Roll is my religion and my law.
Won't ever change, may think it's strange.
You can't kill rock and roll, it's here to stay.
~Ozzy Osbourne

[lyjaugs]

Rock music will never die as long as people keep playing REAL INSTRUMENT

[cs-]

AC/DC said it best, Rock n roll will never die.

[ian_b]

What has happened is that while rock is alive in the sense of still being made, and having fans, it is no longer the cultural mainstream. It has joined jazz in that regard.

[jacobkaufman]

Rock isn’t dead, it just smells funny

[David-swir]

I'm 14 and I just started a rock band in a backroom, anyone can bring rock back you just need the drive like the band's used to have back then I mean thats the whole reason I decided to start playing, anyone can start a band if you find the right group thats willing, rock will never die you just need the right people to bring it back!

[wickednotes]

Rock is just taking a nap from all the partying.

[bare-bonesjoe]

Musical instrument stores in my city that have been there for over 40 years have closed and the last big store is not doing well. Marty is right on the tech front but rock is sleeping a deep sleep and may never wake. Even Gibson was filing for bankruptcy in 2017.

[yoursensei]

Marty: "Tech killed music"
Me: *nods at phone in agreement*

[daniel_naaden]

80s hair metal was rock! That's what I miss.

[GaryBook]

Unfortunately, the present players don’t study roots music or read literature or poetry. From Dylan and the original bands from England, they studied the great old players. Dylan is a musicologists. Robert Plant talks about the old players from 70 - 100 years ago. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards studied their idols. Bands today don’t have that foundation. Paul McCartney has an extensive knowledge of music. John Lennon was an art student. They were all exposed to great culture and it affected their work. Without such an education, you will never create great work.

Led Zeppelin reinterpreted blues, The Rolling Stones redid the blues and Chuck Berry; the Beatles took from Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Motown, Chuck Berry; Dylan was Woody Guthrie, Odetta, and every roots player. They absorbed from the greatest and then created something new.

[allendawson]

Marty fans, Lets start a rock band. Lets bring it back. Im about it!