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I know these old guard musicians love to talk about how it is, but rock isn't dead.  There are some really great rock bands out there.  I caught Shinedown, Papa Roach and Spiritbox this past weekend and it was really great.  I honestly had not given Papa Roach much thought in years and they were my favorite act of the night, I've gone headfirst back into their stuff since this weekend.  Really great, live. 

Shinedown is fantastic.  I've seen them a few times, they are just pros.  They know what they are doing and do it well. 

Spiritbox is stupid good.  The only way I can think to describe the lead vocalist is if Corey Taylor and Amy Lee had a child, and that child fronted a band. 

...wait, is she Corey and Amy's love child?  ???

Anyway, what's the latest show you've seen?

I believe Hugh Anthony Cregg III said it best....."the heart of rock and roll, heart of rock and roll is still beating"

My last concert was Gov,'t Mule. For those that know them, they formed as a power trio with a couple members from The Allman Brothers Band. You get some blues, southern rock, etc. I had a bluegrass show out of town planned but my friend had emergency gallbladder surgery and I couldn't find another person so I didn't go.

Iron Maiden and Tesla still put on a great show live as of a few years ago. George Lynch still plays good, but Don Dokken's voice is shot. Yngwie Malmsteen is Yngwie Malmsteen, but still a great show. Joe Satriani is great. I want to hit the Monsters of Rock Cruise before I die. Lots of alcohol, music, and chicks. Takes me back to '87 LMFAO....

I've spent much of my life as a live performance junkie. Pink Floyd (minus Roger) was possibly the most enjoyable, but tons of great shows...


One of those fluke awesome performances... I was sitting in a small piano bar in London in 1984, and Huey came in, sat at the keys, and played for about a half hour. Material that I had never heard before, and I was a big fan of his recently released "Sports" album.

Six, the new Extremealbum is pretty good.
Myasthenia live show was Scorpions final US show in Vegas.

Rock is dead in that it’s no longer the cultural force it once was, there’s been a great live and indie scene though.

One of the few bands that is is cultural force is Ghost I saw them in August and they are incredible, the best act in the world.

Rock will never die.  It will distort in an amalgam of popular music from its day and you'll get rap/rock, ska/rock, punk/rock, techno/rock, pop/rock, etc....but those cycle back and you'll get back to angry kids making music to buck the system on bass, guitar, and drums.

I saw Godsmack and Atreyu in concert a few weeks ago and they were EXCELLENT.  Its my second time seeing Godsmack, the first time they opened for Metallica.  They can absolutely carry the show on their own. 

But Atreyu was fantastic also.  I like their music but never seen them in concert.   I was pleasantly surprised, they put on a great show.

I wanted to go to Shinedown/Papa Roach, but it just didn't work out for me.  Looking for my next concert opportunity...  Probably will be Aerosmith when / if they resume their tour.

but is that just in Cleveland?

I've seen Papa Roach in Daytona but rock is dead. Especially when our generation dies out. Some of us listen to old stuff but no new music is being made that will become main stream. They may get sampled for other songs but there will never be another Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Motley Crue, or AC/DC.

I think Rock is dead as I know/knew it.  Being a teen in the early 80's there were lots of great rock groups playing, some new and some from the 60's & 70's.  Back then groups toured every year to sell their albums, that doesn't happen anymore.  At my local arena, which holds about #7000 with floor seats, there would be at least 15 good concerts per year (ZZ Top, Grateful Dead, Crosby Stills & Nash, Tom Petty, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Metallica, the list goes on and on - heck Elvis played one of his last shows here).  Then you could go to bigger stadiums (50K-60K) to see the biggest acts of the day like The Who, Rolling Stones, Police, Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, etc. - and the tickets were affordable.  MTV was really a big driver of Rock music in the 80's and 90's.  Now my local arena might have one or two acts per year, and the're usually both country acts.  I think streaming killed Rock music, there was just something about going out and buying an album or a CD and taking it home and listening to it over and over until you knew the words to every song.

^ I don't know how old you are, but I heard the same arguments about MTV killing Rock and Roll, so it's funny that you say that.

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Just saw Tool Friday night.  They crushed it.

The thing in music that I think is dead is "the album".  You used to buy a collection of music that was often conceived together, sometimes linked thematically, and there was often a rise and fall to the track order.  You would start listening to the more digestible radio hits, but sometimes the real gems took longer to warm up to and were deeper cuts with more complexity.

I was never someone who liked to shuffle songs or randomize when listening to a whole album.

I think that concept is largely dead ever since music switched over to MP3 format primarily in the mid-late 2000s.  This is even more solidified in the streaming era.  Everything is singles now and I don't see it going back.