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Still waiting for that to happen, still waiting for something new
I am surprisingly pleased with a lot of the Twenty One Pilots catalog. It's not throwback classic rock or anything, and it's not super flashy. But the music is stylistically all over the place and most of the basslines are rock solid (not much flash, but well represented in the mix and detail), and the lyrics are are about 20 times deeper than anything else you hear on the radio without self-aggrandizing, etc.
Still waiting for that to happen, still waiting for something new
I hear plenty of music that's new. But none of it is rock music. The only thing that is constant is change, rock hasn't changed significantly for 50 years. I drank the kool-aid when I was a teenager but as I got older and started playing music myself I started to see how much BS I had taken at face value.
Rock gods were just the result of marketing. Once corporations woke up to the possibilities after Woodstock, it was all over. Things really hit the fan when Rolling Stone in issues #100 and 101 did a lengthy two part interview with Jerry Garcia that ended up as a book titled Garcia: A Signpost To New Space where Uncle Jerry manages to dispense his philosophy of the world after a few tokes of Maui Wowie. Hey, the guy was just a guitar player, not the Dalai Lama.
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That conjures up a great image of a '70s music celebrity surrounded by acolytes waiting for enlightenment from his words of wisdom, only to hear "man this is some great weed, roll another".
That might be one of the reasons the new blood can't measure up... we're too smart and/or jaded at this point to believe the hype like we did as kids...
Well, we do have (music) anti-Gods. I don't have the time and patience to search, cut and paste Google Images for about a million of them. I was gonna post 2 photos but I am afraid of a warning. So use your imagination.
