Classic rock

Since I got addicted to KFOX recently I started thinking about the term 'Classic rock'. Ever since I listen to the radio which probably started around 25 years ago the music that is covered by this definition is the same: music of the 60's and 70's. You'd think that what's classic shifts together with time, right? But it seems that whatever happened with music after the middle of the 80's cannot be classic. Ever. And probably that's the best for everybody...

And that's the time when the role of 'industry' in this context changed from distribution and marketing to complete control including producing. Instead of finding talent and giving them the opportunity to reach their audience which probably describes what Motown was doing (if you clicked that link, to see what Motown was, shame on you!), nowadays they 'create' talent. Which means to get a bunch of good looking guys and/or girls and let the army of producers and marketing people do something with them. And that's more or less the death of music.

Well I'm not working in this industry, but this video below seems to cover what's going on:


The clip above is from the movie Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, which is one of the most interesting projects around music of the last decade, I think.

So I don't really know what kind of music my kids will discover when they'll get to the phase in their lives, when every child goes through the record collection of their parents... But luckily I have a huge collection of the 60's and 70's, too ;-)

This brilliant picture below grasps the problem very well (source):

And you know what, if we'd go back to the concept to let musicians write and produce music, the industry wouldn't have problem how to get the money, because you'd pay the price to own that album! But would you be a proud owner of a Ke$ha album?? Not the same, now is it?!