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Oh, blog. I haven't been around in a long while, and I apologize for that. I am a horrible person. A lot of things have happened since we last spoke. So, this blog will be a cololition of random topics and observances, because I don't feel like making one that makes since.

So Much For Rock and Roll....

In the days when they made good music, what did it take for a band to become famous? The answer is really quite simple. Good writing and solid music, that's all. And while that may seem like and easy combination, those ingrediants are hard to come by. Band like  The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, CCR, and a few others where able to capture these elements of musician ship and that why kids still listen to them.

Compare this to today. Rock and roll has become an image, a comodity to be traded and sold. Bands are no longer made famous because of what they do, but becasue of the organization that they have backing them. The best example of this is the Jonas Brothers, who happen to make some of the worst bubble gum pop music I have heard. The singers ambition to keep his pre-pubesent tone is horrible to listen to, and the other boys look like they can barley hold there guitars. Yet because the souless enterprise known as DISNEY, knows how to market the heck out of something, the seemingly taletless children make millions. And because they don't know any better, the kids who by this crap consider it ROCK.

Furthure more, the lack of talent that is required to be a ROCK musician is startling. Thanks to advances in computers and digital music making, singers no longer need to sing ... All they have to do is howl into the mic and the producers to the rest ( just think of Brittnay Spears ) Some groups can't even play instruments any more. I know for a fact that KINGS OF LEON, at least on their first CD had to have people show them how to play songs. And have you heard any of these groups live? I want to stick needles in my ears for listening to them. FALL OUT BOY sucks flat out, the guitarist ar to busy spinning around all the while hitting bad notes and the singer, who is to big for his clothes, no matter how much he won't admit it, sounds like a dying cat. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE all they do is wine wine all the time. AFI no only sounds bad but has a front man that looks like a foot. I actually hated the guy before I heard him sing. He looks like an ugly chick for crying out loud, and sounds like banshee.  These bands, alog with lack of talent and dudes that looks like girls are killing ROCK and ROLL

Secondly, band that sream crap on albums and have drummer that sound liek helicopters are not good music either. Everything that is good comes in moderation. And this music is not moderation at all, but reather the extreem oposite of the other that I had previously spoke. So what is the drummer can play 12452563 beats a minute and the guitarist play riffs till it comes out his but. That is not music, there is no musician ship there its just noise.

These band will not last the test of time. Their anthems of hating my parents, that are all in drop D tunning by the way, will fade away just as fast if not faster than the girly sounding stuff. WHY? Because people grow up and when that happens they stop listening to noise, becasue they have to focus on life. And when that happens they listen to the old stuff, the classic, that have been able to with stand.

Is there hope for modern music? Will there be bands that are able to recapture the spirit of the old times? Will there be bands that we listen to now that will be heard by our children? I am not sure but here are a few that very well could.

THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS great sound with some amazing albums

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND not a fan really, but they are talented and have solid song writting

WEEZER simple yet always good to hear. I believe in weezer

RADIO HEAD are already classic, hopefully other generations will pick up on them

Thats really all I can think of right now. Which may be bad for music itself. But maybe some more will come along that can capture the old times of good rock music, only time will tell