Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).Brutal.
Honestly most of these people should have gone away in the early 90's. Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick did. She packed it in when she turned 50. Rock is a young person's music, she understood.
Why do the Strolling Bones not get that? And we did not need to see septuagenarian Roger Daltrey singing 'Hope I die before I get old,' at the Super Bowl a few years ago.
As noted before this blog believes rock peaked about 1980 with all those 70's era power bands. There is now greater riff than All Right Now: A...A...D...A ...D...D...D...D...D...D...D..G...A.
Perfect.
MTV gave rock another ten years. The music video was an interesting art form and well suited to Metal, which dominated the decade. Grunge was the last innovation and died quickly.
Thank god.
And after that?...
The pop sound migrated to country, which looked like it was having a better time, while...while the geezers refused (and refuse) to die.
There was nowhere left to go.
And then country died thank God for bluegrass but even now pop is making its way into that killing the traditional sound I hate bubble gum pop with a passion
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