Who said “Rock is finally dead” ?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

106. Frampton Comes Alive? Bob Seger? BTO??

Livin' in the Seventies, yeah!!

Frampton Comes Alive was a MONSTER hit double album.

I found a concert t-shirt in my closet that said "Bob Seger American Tour '74". I have no idea where it crawled in from. I've never seen Bob Seger live. My kid borrowed it and wore it and that was fine with me. She also stole my Frank Zappa T-shirt that said "Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar" on the back. And my Bruce T-shirt from 1999.

I preferred cassettes to 8 track back in the day.

And I gave up on rock pretty much when The Police broke up right after the Synchronicity Tour in '83. I remember having a side seat and staring straight ahead at Stewart Copeland's drumming. And every single lick was just like it was on the last two albums. I didn't think any new bands would come along with the complex rhythms that they had. They broke up just when they were getting quite good. There were a few people I listened to in the late 80s, but I decided rock died when The Police died.

Andy Summers has gone into jazz (7ths, 9ths, 11ths, 13ths, suspended chords) which is an indication he's an excellent musician. He's also studied classical a lot. Classical music gives you a rock-solid foundation of discipline for any other type of music. And if you get bored with classical, you can go into jazz. That is what very intelligent musicians often do. I noticed this because I started out as a classical music student and was totally obsessed with it for a couple of decades on two different instruments, and still love a lot of the complexity of some of it.

I have not heard any rock bands since The Police that had that complexity that I always find interesting. Not DA-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP in a straight 4/4 rhythm. But then I was playing Stravinsky orchestral pieces in high school, like The Firebird Suite. Last page of The Firebird Suite is in 7/4.

And then grunge came along.........barf.

Get off my lawn!!!