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Posted: 18 Nov 2012 3:53 pm
by b0b
Alan Brookes wrote:I have no idea what the term "rock" now encompasses. It seems to mean nothing more than "pop" nowadays.
Pop music today bears no relation to rock. Alan. It's all very clever, advanced digital gimickry. The most popular singer in the world today is "auto-tune".
Posted: 19 Nov 2012 2:25 pm
by Theresa Galbraith
LOL topic!
Posted: 20 Nov 2012 12:19 pm
by Alan Brookes
Bobby Lee wrote:...Pop music today bears no relation to rock...
Then what is rock ?
Posted: 20 Nov 2012 12:48 pm
by b0b
Rock is typically guitar-based music in 4/4 time with strong bass lines, drums & cymbals. Very little of today's pop music is remotely close to that profile.
Posted: 20 Nov 2012 12:55 pm
by Joachim Kettner
Posted: 20 Nov 2012 1:47 pm
by b0b
Contrast that with Rianna's current pop hit:
http://youtu.be/2LT23ixDaJo
or Maroon 5 (currently #1):
http://youtu.be/fwK7ggA3-bU
It's not rock. It's a different kind of music.
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 11:24 am
by Alan Brookes
Bobb Lee wrote:Rock is typically guitar-based music in 4/4 time with strong bass lines, drums & cymbals. Very little of today's pop music is remotely close to that profile.
Yes, that's
rock and roll, and it's usually syncopated, but during the 60s they even started calling Joan Baez rock, and they started introducing all sorts of minor chords. It seems to me that the term
rock has lost its meaning.
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 11:42 am
by b0b
I virtually disagree.
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 9:12 pm
by Bob Ritter
Do you guys think Robert Randolph can even play country music on the pedal steel guitar
Posted: 22 Nov 2012 1:43 pm
by chris ivey
yes.
Posted: 23 Nov 2012 6:49 am
by Joe Casey
Why would he ever want too? Would he like to be out of work?
Posted: 23 Nov 2012 8:04 am
by Barry Blackwood
Do you guys think Robert Randolph can even play country music on the pedal steel guitar
Bob, I have heard him do it, and it is good to the point of embarrassment for most of us.
Posted: 23 Nov 2012 8:54 am
by Joachim Kettner
Has "Let Your Love Grow" already been mentioned?
Posted: 23 Nov 2012 8:12 pm
by Barry Blackwood
Joachim, I don't believe so, but it's certainly a contender IMO..
Posted: 23 Nov 2012 11:27 pm
by Joachim Kettner
Nice to see that you agree, Barry. I've seen the Bellamys in the mid- eighties. They were advertised as "Country" on the concert posters. It wasn't so.
Posted: 24 Nov 2012 9:38 am
by Barry Blackwood
I used to refer to them as the "Bellowing Brothers…"
Posted: 24 Nov 2012 9:55 am
by Alan Brookes
Up until the 20th century, Country Music was a bunch of farmers singing in a pub while swilling beer.