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Gene Simmons full Esquire interview with his son here…

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Music fans are getting their panties in a bunch over Gene Simmons controversial “Rock is finally dead” comments. How much do you wanna bet that most of them didn’t read the actual interview itself before slamming the guy? I just finished reading the interview with Gene and his son at Esquire magazine.

Before bashing Gene Simmons, maybe you should read the entire interview and then you would understand what he’s saying.

Read it here:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/gene-simmons-future-of-rock

I think the interview is very interesting!

A lot of people are coming to a misunderstanding when he says that “Rock is finally dead”. He’s not saying that there are no rock bands anymore. That’s not what he’s saying at all. He knows that there are new rock bands today but what he’s saying is that they will no longer get the “iconic” and “legendary” status with the way the industry is going today.

Today, the industry have been giving the “iconic” status to fake pop-stars like Justin Bieber, Kanye, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Psy, etc. who are mostly manufactured by record labels. Those pop stars don’t write their own songs. It’s mostly the record labels that writes the songs in today’s mainstream these days.

Back in the old days when Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Clash, etc. all came around they all got the iconic and “legendary status” ’cause they wrote their own songs and played their own instruments.

You know how legendary and essential albums like Led Zeppelin IV – Zoso, Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon”, The Beatles “Sgt. Peppers”, The Clash “London Calling”, Hendrix “Electric Ladyland” are all important albums that we’ll never forget???

With the way the industry is going today, we’ll never get that essential classic again.

That’s what he meant when he said that, “Rock is finally dead”. When real rock bands and musicians get together and make albums that are huge and iconic that is rock n’ roll. Those days are dead and gone now.

People are accusing Gene of being behind of the times but he’s not. Yeah, there are rock bands today sure but most of today’s bands are manufactured and created by record labels too like Linkin Park for starters. Everything is created by the labels these days.

Gene just wants bands who writes their own songs and play their own instruments getting success in the music business.

I’m sure Gene is gonna get asked again about this in his next interview and I’m sure he’ll talk about it even more.

Read that interview I posted above, the whole thing. It’s good and Gene is so right on everything he said. I’m still siding with him.

Kev

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Somebody finally says it, “Rock is finally dead”… thanks Gene Simmons!!!

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Gone are the days when kids just want to look after their favorite rock stars and buy all of their albums and hang posters of them on their bedroom walls. These days kids are listening to stuff like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Kanye, Justin Bieber, Kenny Chesney, Luke Bryan, Keith Urban, Toby Keith, etc.

Gone are the days when kids want to pick up a guitar, learn a few chords and jam on pentatonic scales — then try to start their own band and play in their garages to try to score a record deal with a major label. These days kids are desperately trying to get fame by getting on garbage competition shows like: “The Voice”, “American Idol”, “America’s Got Talent”, “X-Factor”, etc.

Gone are the days when you want to see your favorite rock bands in large arenas so you can mosh to them, bang your head and raise some hell. These days large arena concerts are for teenagers and young girls so they can scream their heads off to their favorite boy bands or rap stars.

Okay, I think you get my point now. I’ve been saying for years on my blogs that “rock n’ roll” is dead. Rock tries to make a comeback in the mainstream but it is always dominated by pop, rap, and country. Today’s mainstream of music is shit.

I don’t buy new albums much anymore. It’s getting harder and harder to find good music these days. That’s why on my Ipod, you’ll find mostly older music like in the 60’s and 70’s. Sometimes 80’s and early 90’s. I don’t listen to new music too much. I only listen to new music if it’s good and something catches my attention. While I’m not a big fan of pop, rap and country… I can take a little bit of it.

I listen to all sorts of music. A little bit of everything but my no 1. preferred genre is rock n’ roll. I’ve listened to rock n’ roll my entire life so I know it’s a dying industry. It really is sad where the music industry has come to today. Thank you for telling it like is, Gene! \m/

http://loudwire.com/gene-simmons-rock-finally-dead/

Kev

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The Top 10 Best Supergroups of rock music

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In celebration of the new Chickenfoot album coming out soon, I thought it would be fun to make a top 10 Best supergroups of rock n’ roll music.

Here are my choices in the list below along with videos:

1. The Traveling Wilbury’s (Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and George Harrison…4 huge superstars in a cool rock n’ roll band that I always admired, loved their music!)

2. CSNY (This band includes members from Buffalo Springfield, The Hollies, and the Byrds. If you don’t think this is a supergroup, then what are they?)

3. Cream (Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker, hell yeah)

4. Derek & the Dominos (Another Eric Clapton supergroup that I always loved. Duane Allman at his best!)

5. Bad Company (This band has members from Free, Mott the Hopple, and King Crimson. I’ve always loved Bad Company and always loved their hit in the video below, great song…)

6. Temple of the Dog (Some of the guys in Soundgarden and Pearl Jam both joined forces to do an album in tribute for Andrew Wood, the singer of Mother Love Bone. This was an incredible and mind blowing album…)

7. Them Crooked Vultures (Dave Grohl teams up with John Paul Jones, to make this excellent album released in 2009. I wish they would get together and make another album, dammit…!!!)

8. Chickenfoot (Sammy’s best project in a long while, I really loved the first Chickenfoot album and looking forward to the second album…)

9. Oysterhead (Band includes Phish’s, Trey Anastasio, Primus’s, Les Claypool and the Police’s, Stewart Copeland. I thought this band was fantastic. “The Grand Pecking Order” was such a fine album and so unique, I wish they would get together to make another record too…)

10. Emerson, Lake & Palmer (I’ve always loved this album. Used to listen to it on vinyl all the time…)

Enjoy!

Kev

Edit to add: I took the videos off ’cause it was making this site too slow with too many videos.