When did you stop enjoying Rock?

Mat Rhodes · Post by **Mat Rhodes** » 17 Jan 2006 3:33 pm

At 36, I NEVER thought I'd reach the point in my life where I stopped enjoying Rock. I currently play in a fairly modern rock band and considered what I was doing was kind of cutting edge for a steel player. But only in the last few weeks, I've lost the passion for Rock music. That goes for radio, MTV, etc. To me, it has become predictable and tired.

So I was wondering if any of you have felt like you've lost the Age of Innocence. Call it age, more responsibilities, or oversaturation from the media. Can any of you remember when the transition occurred for you and what caused that transition?

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Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 17 Jan 2006 3:47 pm

I stopped enjoying Rock when it started to sound like today's Country ........

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 17 Jan 2006 3:55 pm

I was 32 and just got tired of the boom-crash. Went back to my country roots and enjoyed it ever since.

Steinar Gregertsen · Post by **Steinar Gregertsen** » 17 Jan 2006 3:58 pm

Never stopped enjoying (high quality) rock, just learned to enjoy a whole lot of other music as well. So it feels like I enjoy rock less sometimes, but that's really not the case...

Steinar

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Jim Phelps · Post by **Jim Phelps** » 17 Jan 2006 4:05 pm

About the time Brittney Spears and the like became popular.

Jim Jasutis · Post by **Jim Jasutis** » 17 Jan 2006 4:25 pm

Back in the 60s or 70s when it went all druggy, and the DJs all started laughing when a policman would get hurt in a drug bust.

Billy Wilson · Post by **Billy Wilson** » 17 Jan 2006 4:41 pm

In the year 2525, when somebody left the cake out in the rain.

Mark Metdker · Post by **Mark Metdker** » 17 Jan 2006 4:45 pm

I still like it, at least some of it. My view on all genres of music is about the same, I like it if it is done well. I tend to listen to a wide variety of music. I posted recently how I am currently enjoying listening to sitar music. Then, I'll put on some U2, or Coldplay, and back that up with Bobby Flores or The Derailers. I think everything can be good in moderation. Although I play in country bands, I can't sit and listen to country all day, or just rock all day. I like a little of all of it.

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Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 17 Jan 2006 4:59 pm

Bravo, Barry!

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 17 Jan 2006 5:07 pm

I'm not tired of it yet....but I dig deeper than mainstream.
Go find it, it's out there. There are killer bands out there, you just gotta look.

I'll start you off....
Look for a band named "Superunloader"
I don't think they're touring anymore, but they are still out there active in the business....

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 17 Jan 2006 5:13 pm

I liked rock through the early '70s. Like most every other kind of popular music, the spark and originality (individuality?) just went away in the mid '70s. It became schmaltzy, overproduced...and generally "more show than go".

The same thing happened to country music in the mid '70s.

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 17 Jan 2006 5:31 pm

The first time I stopped enjoying it was when Elvis went into the Army and Pat Boone and Frankie Avalon took over. I took up jazz, then folk and blues. Dylan, the Stones, the Byrds, Hendrix and Motown got me back into rock, but by then I wasn't playing it myself. Then I started getting into country and bluegrass, partly because I was interested in my roots, and partly because these genres have adult themes. I started playing dobro and pedal steel. Then the Eagles, New Riders, and Linda Rhonstadt brought me back to country rock. Then disco and grad school sort of cooled me out. Then punk, new wave Goth, and young women got me interested again for awhile. Then marriage and kids and Britney and boy bands and rap took my interest away, and I really didn't have time to search out the indies and the grunge scene. Then divorce put me on the meat market again, and I decided to go back to the beginning and play rockabilly, alt country and blues. Now my kids radio stations are beginning to work on me, and the more R&B oriented hip hop (Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys) is sounding interesting. But I can't figure out how to work steel into it - maybe RR can show the way. That's probably way more than anybody wanted to know - but that's what happened. It's been a long strange trip.

Sonny Priddy · Post by **Sonny Priddy** » 17 Jan 2006 5:34 pm

The Real Rock & Roll That I Knew Went out About 1957 or 58 Now that was rock & Roll. SONNY.

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Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 17 Jan 2006 6:15 pm

I more or less lost interest in rock around 1970. The band that specifically turned me off was Led Zeppelin. I hate Robert Plant's so called singing.

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 17 Jan 2006 6:23 pm

The first time I heard it.

Geoff Brown · Post by **Geoff Brown** » 17 Jan 2006 6:34 pm

I've never lost interest in rock music, or pretty much any other genre. My tastes have changed over the years, but it's not as if I woke up one day and said, "rock music sucks and I'm moving on". Today, we have more music being made than ever before. "Rock" is such a broad term to begin with. So many sub-genres in there. If people limit their listening to their local FM radio or watching MTV, they're getting no exposure to 90% of the music that's out there.

Leslie Ehrlich · Post by **Leslie Ehrlich** » 17 Jan 2006 6:55 pm

1975 was the year rock 'n' roll died for me. That was the year that disco took off, and for the rest of the decade 'corporate rock' replaced the hard-driving guitar rock of the early 1970s.

I was a teenager during the late 1970s, and I tried to avoid disco and corporate rock by learning to play the old guitar rock and southern rock stuff. Punk was pretty much an underground thing, the 'new wave' stuff that followed was too clean for me, and heavy metal was too fast for my liking.

By 1982 I abandoned the pursuit of rock stardom and music has been a hobby ever since. Several fads and formulae have come and gone since then and I've ignored all of them. I never abondoned rock 'n' roll however, and in recent years I've turned to recording and playing original music.

One thing I promised myself was that I would not turn to country music just because rock 'n' roll was changing. Good thing I didn't, because country music took a turn for the worse too.

Rick McDuffie · Post by **Rick McDuffie** » 17 Jan 2006 7:10 pm

I love intelligent music of (nearly) all genres, rock included. I despise stupid music of all genres. Bad country music is just as despicable as bad rock. It doesn't make any sense to eliminate an entire (huge) category in a wholesale manner. Oversimplification.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 17 Jan 2006 8:12 pm

I was never a fan of top 40 rock but the rock I did like I still do: The Band, Tom Waits, Little Feat, The Beatles, Greatful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads. I like them all just as much as always did but I had a very narrow interest in the genre.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 17 Jan 2006 9:27 pm

I enjoy watching a good rock band in concert on DVD or HDTV. The studio recordings just don't excite me, though. Most of them are too sterile and contrived for my taste.

I've felt that way since the mid-80's. I sort of burned out on listening to rock when I worked at the Boogie factory.

I like playing good rock tunes on steel. A lot of rock has interesting chord changes, mode changes and rhythms. It's not as limiting as blues or country in that respect.

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Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 18 Jan 2006 2:58 am

I still enjoy and listen to a good deal of Rock...( not 80's Punky Rock) although I do like the Ramones and the Romantics...

Stones..Mountain..Cream..etc...(roots for me)

It's the Rolls that are killin' me, expecially them dang Sweet Rolls , Dinner Rolls, etc...

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David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 18 Jan 2006 3:17 am

It seemed like into the mid-70's, bands (and guitarists) had distinctive sounds - you could instantly tell Hendrix from Clapton from Santana from Allman. To my ear, Boston, Heart, and Jefferson Starship took major steps in formulizing rock, and quick on their heels came the "designed" bands: Styx, Foreigner, Journey, Oreo Speedcookie, and on and on. There have been glimmers of talent sneaking through now and then - Dire Straights, the Police - but they've been few and far between lately. Nowadays, all the children's minds have been fried by too much television anyway, so musicality doesn't even matter - it's all about style. I am a fiend for long, evolving melodies, and as rock guitarists can't solo anymore, I get my jollies from violin concertos and Indian music.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 18 Jan 2006 3:37 am

It comes it goes, but never completely ends.
Like Steinar, I just added other music to the mix.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 18 January 2006 at 10:30 AM.]

Keith Cordell · Post by **Keith Cordell** » 18 Jan 2006 4:37 am

My interests have simply widened, as well. I'll never stop loving the Clash, Elvis Costello, etc., and I think unlike Mr. Perlowin I think Led Zeppelin was about the pinnacle of the genre but most of what is commercially promoted on radio is crap. Fortunately I have time to look for the stuff I listen to, like the Hellacopters from Sweden, the Handsome Family, Wilco, Son Volt, The Bottle Rockets... there is a wealth of great music out there if you take the time to look, and some of it is absolutely amazing.
Of course the old stuff still sets the standard and I'll always go back to Ray Charles when the **** hits the fan.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 18 Jan 2006 6:13 am

When did you stop enjoying Rock?

Isn't that like "When did you stop beating your wife?"