Rock and Roll is Dead

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I was coming back from my agent's office today, jazzed as I usually am after dropping off pictures, sure that each headshot would being me fame and fortune, and I'm driving down Ventura Blvd. past all the studios, and I'm digging my life, and I flick on the radio and catch John Lennon singing "Twist and Shout". I start singing and drumming and rocking and rolling and thinking "This song kicks ASS mother-fucker", and I'm on top of the world. Then the song ends and I hear this stoopid jingle .... "Radio Disney! We're All Ears!"

John Lennon's bitchin' voice is now kiddie fodder for the mouse network. Suddenly I'm not so hip, not so cool. I get to the ugly Cahuenga Pass and drive into seedy Hollywood, my car is dirty, and I realize I hate my headshots.

Fucking Disney.

 

[Weevil]

Just cause you've got one foot in the grave doesn't mean music does

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Yes. It does.

 

[YoungGun69]

Can I have your CD's then?

 

[Weevil]

Oh. Really?

Nuts. I was just getting to like the stuff.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Actually, I think Rock and Roll died right around the time Wham! got a record deal.

 

[Weevil]

Actually, I think Rock and Roll died right around the time Wham! got a record deal.

As my Granpa says, Rock died the day Elvis got out of the Army.

 

[floridaguy64]

Yeah, so I've heard............

Actually, I think Rock and Roll died right around the time Wham! got a record deal.

It's that fucking George Michael's fault!

Where's my rope?......... Hang Him!!!!!!!!!!!!, Hang Him!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Laurel]

Manu and I were just talking about this the other day...with the weakening of anti-trust laws, we're now at a point where the same companies that own MTV also own the record labels...in effect, the corporations that sell crap to us now own the media. Ever watch those little MTV News bits? They used to throw in a little real music news every now and then...now they're all blatant ads for whatever mediocre record the labels are pushing lately.

And I think to myself - MTV sucks, local radio stations suck, but at least I have my Spinner, right? Not for long...thanks to The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (and the suckass bought & sold Congress that allowed the record industry to write it, then passed it on through without question), online radio stations have to not only pay the artists royalties for playing their music (which is fair), they must ALSO give 15% of their gross sales - not PROFITS, SALES to the RECORD COMPANIES, NOT the Artists. This only applies to Internet radio stations, most of which do not turn a profit, and can't hope to ever do so while being extorted in this way.

And musicians are still tied to the same ridiculous slavery contracts that actors freed themselves from years ago.

Fuck the record industry. Fuck music. I'm going to sit in silence from now on, in protest.

 

[Weevil]

Oh blow a gasket why don't you.

The further and further real music is driven away from Record Companies, MTV and radio the better it is for the only person who really matters in the equation

Me. Or more accurately the consumer.

 

[sexy-girl]

i love music still british bands especially .... i maybe wrong but i think radio stations over in america are worse then ones here ... ours are alittle more open to playing new music and different music ... but i think our radio stations are heading fast to being like yours

 

[Laurel]

Oh blow a gasket why don't you.

Thanks, I think I will.

 

[Weevil]

i love music still british bands especially .... i maybe wrong but i think radio stations over in america are worse then ones here ... ours are alittle more open to playing new music and different music

I wonder how that can be as British music is so uncharacteristically awful right now.

 

[Siren]

Rock and Roll died when Rap came in

 

[Dillinger]

Down at the Astoria the scene was changing,
Bingo and rock were pushing out X-rating,
We were the first band to vomit in the bar,
And find the distance to the stage too far,
Meanwhile it's getting late at ten o'clock,
Rock is dead they say,
Long live rock.

Long live rock, I need it every night,
Long live rock, come on and join the line,
Long live rock, be it dead or alive.

 

[sexy-girl]

I wonder how that can be as British music is so uncharacteristically awful right now.

hehe are you the american version of p_p_man ?

which british bands are you refering too ?

 

[Guest]

hehe are you the american version of p_p_man ?

which british bands are you refering too ?

Well, radiohead sucks, Travis sucks, Manic Street Preachers suck, The Stereophonics haven't released anything decent in years, Blur seems to be content to noodle about, Oasis seems to going more supertramp and less Who and Ash sucks(Although I know they're Irish)

The only two bands I'm really likin' is Gomez and The Beta Band.

 

[Weevil]

me again.

Damn cookies.

and I'm fucking Canadian.

 

[OUTSIDER]

I wonder how that can be as British music is so uncharacteristically awful right now.

There is an awful lot of crap about at the moment in the UK charts but if you look a little deeper there's some really good stuff to, try checking out the top 40 chart played on BBC Radio 1 every sunday, I forget what time but you should be able to find out online.

The really good stuff sometimes doesn't get into the top 10 because the market is skewed towards the teen and preteen market at the moment, it's no surprise the top ten is crap when it's made up from the buying habits of 9-16 year olds.

 

[Weevil]

Bah!

 

[Siren]

Outtie, I lost my respect for Brit Wanker music

 

[sexy-girl]

i love these english bands/albums


supergrass - dont know album name
blur - 13
stereophonics - word gets around / performance and cocktails
toploader - onka's big moka
jamiroquai - everything by them
the verve/richard ashcroft - split up now but liked ashcroft new album
kula shaker - broke up but still cool
gomez - bring it on
paul weller - old but still rocks
radiohead - omg they still so cool
oasis - only did one truely great album
manic's - everything must go (rocks)
david gray - white ladder
ocean colour scene - moseley shoals

 

[OUTSIDER]

Re: Outtie, I lost my respect for Brit Wanker music

.....after the Spice Girls

Like I said what do you expect when the charts are compiled from the buying habit's of the foetus

 

[sexy-girl]

spice girls dont count as music ... america has more naff music like that then we do back street boys britney spears and LOADS others

 

[OUTSIDER]

Mmmmm Supergrass are "Da Bomb"