"Rock is finally dead" says Gene Simmons and its all because of filesharing
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And with 3D printers, they'll be able to make all the free KISS merchandise they could ever want.
(Nobody wants KISS merchandise.)
What a fucking loser. He's some far right sellout who can't help but bring his backwards bullshit ass views when he should be playing his shitty music instead. I never liked KISS to begin with, and now especially I'd tell him to go to hell if I saw him.
Like a goddamn wolf in sheep's clothing.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Simmons#Political_views[/url]
[QUOTE=Viva;45910822]Honestly, if anything rock is the opposite of dead. Thanks to the internet the indie rock scene is exploding and low key bands are getting larger audiences or more publicity.[/QUOTE]
plus Hercules was actually decently reviewed for a supposedly crap film.
Rock and roll lives on because of file sharing. It's today's equivalent of cassette recordings off the radio. Doesn't stop me buying a genuinely good album though, whatever the genre.
fuck you gene simmons, your average kiss fan is like 50 years old, your music is generic at best
[editline]6th September 2014[/editline]
he's like the most anti-rock anti-fan person ever and the textbook definition of a sellout
also i hope the cleveland gladiators kick the shit out of the las angelas kiss'
Jazz literally WAS the music industry and defined everything music back when music actually became something big. (Because of records and TV and Radio and musical communities and depressed people who wanted to have a good time)
it's still alive today and people still fit the Jazz bill. It was MASSIVE culturally, and still is. Same goes for Rock, only much lesser so. Rock is only one of the many, many things that jazz created.
Rock and Rock culture will always live on. Even to day people make classical Bach era music, and same goes for the more recent 1930's style jazz in 2014 with 1930's feel. People fucking love music culture, no matter how "Dated". Rock is very recent and was huge, and still is, so it's not dead. In fact, it'll never die.
People dress up in 'dated' attire even if they never lived in that era just because they appreciate it, just to have a good time. Music is important, and saying "Rock is dead" is a stupid and ignorant thing to say. You'd have to not appreciate music as a whole in order to say that, and that's pretty crazy to think that him of all people could.
retweet this message if you listen to REAL music
fred durst 4 life
[QUOTE=J!NX;45910834]Who is he again? Some old guy?
seriously though how is he an authority on this? because he isn't, at all.[/QUOTE]
The lead singer of Kiss, a hugely famous rock band? I mean, I get what you're saying, and as much as I don't agree with him, he's like one of a few hundred people on the planet remotely qualified to make this kind of claim.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;45911574]The lead singer of Kiss, a hugely famous rock band?[/QUOTE]
I was being sarcastic, hopefully it wasn't that vague
but still, I don't know how that makes him an authority on it.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;45911574]The lead singer of Kiss, a hugely famous rock band? I mean, I get what you're saying, and as much as I don't agree with him, he's like one of a few hundred people on the planet remotely qualified to make this kind of claim.[/QUOTE]
he might be, but does he have the right to?
i mean yeah there aren't exactly many rock stars but from what I hear he apparently sold out to pop. If that's really true that makes him the least bit qualified imho. Even then though, there is still tons of good rock. It doesn't have to be ACDC or Kiss or whatever.
[QUOTE=J!NX;45911469]Jazz literally WAS the music industry and defined everything music back when music actually became something big. (Because of records and TV and Radio and musical communities and depressed people who wanted to have a good time)
it's still alive today and people still fit the Jazz bill. It was MASSIVE culturally, and still is. Same goes for Rock, only much lesser so. Rock is only one of the many, many things that jazz created.
Rock and Rock culture will always live on. Even to day people make classical Bach era music, and same goes for the more recent 1930's style jazz in 2014 with 1930's feel. People fucking love music culture, no matter how "Dated". Rock is very recent and was huge, and still is, so it's not dead. In fact, it'll never die.
People dress up in 'dated' attire even if they never lived in that era just because they appreciate it, just to have a good time. Music is important, and saying "Rock is dead" is a stupid and ignorant thing to say. You'd have to not appreciate music as a whole in order to say that, and that's pretty crazy to think that him of all people could.[/QUOTE]
at least rock was responsible for both country and western as johnny cash lead to a generation of shitty country and later western (johnny cash himself is amazing and timeless)
[QUOTE=Hamsterjuice;45911558]retweet this message if you listen to REAL music
fred durst 4 life[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MI-_jWAmlE[/media]
rip real music ;-;
as ac-dc once screeched
"rock and roll ain't gonna die"
[QUOTE=Sableye;45911643]as ac-dc once screeched
"rock and roll ain't gonna die"[/QUOTE]
they then proceeded to beat rock n roll to death by playing it without change for 40 years
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/A1bSYHT.png[/IMG]
I'm not too sure how reliable Google Trends is for determining how popular music is, but from this it doesn't look to be dead (compared to whatever other genres I could think of at the moment).
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45909125]If the classic rock of the 70s and 80s is what inspired what people call "rock" today then it is definitely dead.[/QUOTE]
You do realise that music was inspired by the music from 30 years before it as well, right? Would you call blues and jazz dead?
Gene produces music now doesn't he? He's so disconnected with his audience its not even funny. Like i remember seeing KISS tickets sell for like 400 bucks?! who wants to see them that badly?
God damn I wish I could remember any of my fathers speech he told me about this kinda subject off the top of my head as he's worked in this medium for almost 25 years.
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;45911693][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/A1bSYHT.png[/IMG]
I'm not too sure how reliable Google Trends is for determining how popular music is, but from this it doesn't look to be dead (compared to whatever other genres I could think of at the moment).[/QUOTE]
Here's a more reliable source:
[url]http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/[/url]
[editline]6th September 2014[/editline]
This actually tries to estimate percentage popularity over time.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;45909496]Gene Simmons will do anything for money. It's even funnier since he changed his name to Gene Simmons from something extremely jewish[/QUOTE]
nothing like just trying to read a news thread about some old fuck saying something irrelevant, and finding some blatant anti-semitism right on the first page.
because all of us jews will whore ourselves for money like gene simmons huh ahahahaha right shut the fuck up goyim
[QUOTE=Shark Cat;45909631]people are just too busy pretending they like certain bands (pink floyd, the who, led zeppelin etc.) just because they're "classic" when really there are thousands of bands under so many sub-genres nowadays who produce better music, "rock is dead" is just a stupid person's way of saying they don't look hard enough[/QUOTE]
You know, if you could link to me a band that produces better music than Floyd could you actually please do so, because I've really been craving something similar to the style of Dark Side of The Moon or Wish You Were Here and I really can't find it despite having looked. I don't mean like individual songs either, I mean an entire album of that calibre.
I mean I realise there is other music out there which is, in its own genre, comparable, but in the genre of progressive/psychedelic rock I'd really like something to listen to similar to Floyd.
[QUOTE=Chrisordie;45908661]The quality of music is not measured in it's sales but in how it lives on and influences the lives of those who listen to it.[/QUOTE]
so still rip gene simmons
[quote]And who is the culprit? There’s always the changing tide of interests — music taste changes with each generation. To blame that is silly,” [/quote]
So changing interest is what killed rock but no it isn't. Very coherent, Mr. Simmons.
[QUOTE=Mysterious;45911636]
rip real music ;-;[/QUOTE]
nah fuk fred durst kreed is the real music
[video=youtube;ctoQ0z88cG4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctoQ0z88cG4[/video]
isn't it really coincidental that Gene Simmons has a new album coming out?
[QUOTE=sltungle;45912765]You know, if you could link to me a band that produces better music than Floyd could you actually please do so, because I've really been craving something similar to the style of Dark Side of The Moon or Wish You Were Here and I really can't find it despite having looked. I don't mean like individual songs either, I mean an entire album of that calibre.
I mean I realise there is other music out there which is, in its own genre, comparable, but in the genre of progressive/psychedelic rock I'd really like something to listen to similar to Floyd.[/QUOTE]
i like pink floyd, they're nice to listen to sometimes, but the five minutes of weird sounds and stuff gets a little boring (for me) after a while, i'm not saying that's all it is though, i'm also not saying there aren't people who still love floyd more than anything else around today, my dad still goes down into the basement now and again and listens to every album on his turntable, but to say that they're better than anything today is completely down to opinion
for example i like post-punk and "skate punk" (bands like fidlar, wavves etc) more than i like progressive, so floyd wouldn't really be my thing anyway, so what i meant by "better music" was "music that i like more" but there are a LOT of progressive rock bands popping up lately, you just have to look around more and go to small gigs :smile:
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;45911693][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/A1bSYHT.png[/IMG]
I'm not too sure how reliable Google Trends is for determining how popular music is, but from this it doesn't look to be dead (compared to whatever other genres I could think of at the moment).[/QUOTE]
Often if I'm looking for new music I won't Google the genre. I usually get it from word of mouth, last.fm, or browsing bandcamp. Even if I was going to search genre, I probably would search indie or alternative and not just "rock."
[QUOTE=mikeyt493;45911662]they then proceeded to beat rock n roll to death by playing it without change for 40 years[/QUOTE]
AC/DC is good in fragments.
I can't stand to try and listen to a whole album, though.
[quote] It was murdered. And the real culprit is that kid’s 15-year-old next-door neighbor, probably a friend of his. Maybe even one of the bandmates he’s jamming with.[/quote]
so basically blaming the people...who consume rock music for killing said music, ya thats as passable as blaming teens in the USSR for the vast amount of bootleg records in the USSR, they're totally at fault and not a symptom of a broken industry
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