Rock music that is


If you have noticed if your an all around music listener, rock music is falling to pieces. But the beginning was so great. What happened? How you play and your style most would say is your influence, but really influence reflects how you think in a way. Rock music started from people like Chuck Berry which evolved from a sort of jazz influence but really no influence at all, playing their own thing. Then comes bands like Beatles, The Who, and Rolling Stones guitarists would be influenced by another guitarist like Chuck Berry or B.B. King but that doesn't influence the whole band so again their on their own thing there. Some of the best music ever with barely any influence. Now Lets take on. Other genders of music progress like Metal and Punk (Real Punk). They are influenced by what they like. Take example of Kirk Hammet of Metallica, a metal guitarist whos influences were Jimmy Page, Hendrix and people around that time. Is Metallica good? Most would say yes, like mwa. Are they better then the influences? No, of course not (Most would say), you can never beat the influences, not at that time. Then people get influenced by him or his band, are they better? No way. What I'm saying is that sooner or later music is gonna start to suck if people only keep on going down this ladder. When is that? Now. So in comes a little band called Green Day which are influenced by The Clash. They better? Self explanitory. So as we go down this ladder, people get influenced by Green Day and this is where everything starts to fall. I'm not saying that GD is horrible but we've too far down this ladder that bands are calling themselves punk when there really should be a gendre stunk to fit them somewhere. So nowadays to find a good band (In an all arounders opinion) you'd have to go up that ladder and get early influences. Or even a mix. Like the band Fighting Instinct. They're influenced by Soundgarden, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Led Zeppelin. If you like all three of those bands then you'll be sure to like Fighting Instinct (Listen to "I Found Forever" by the way), Because it takes part of their sound. Music is falling because people only listen to music out around now to choose their influences. If they'd expand it a little more they'd be pretty good. Like MCR. Yeah I don't like them much but they have a sense of uniqueness in them from the rest of the emo tribe. Why? 'Cause they listened to a lot of Iron Maiden. No other emo band does.



So what do you think about this theory?