AI destroying music ?

Tool, Oceansize, The Mars Volta, Thrice, A perfect Circle… just to name a few!

Thanks...I'll have to look some up. Name a few more that you like the most.

Of course, glad you're interested:

Karnivool, Arcane Roots, The Ocean, The Hirsch Effect, Breaking Orbit and more recently Feather Mountain. That's far from everything I listen to but that's some of those which likely have been influenced by the era where prog was big, without trying to imitate that sound or limiting themselves too much (which kinda contradicts what I always perceived as the the main ideas behind that music anyway) to any genre norm in general.

Thanks...looks like I have stuff to look up. Always good to get a different opinion.

I can imagine Johnny would issue a proper sign if he heard this....

When Laurie Anderson started using a Vocorder it was pretty cool, in the context of the music she wrote. Nowadays the use of it in pop music is so much the norm' that I find it annoying to the max! But, then again, I have ignored mainstream commercial music for decades now.

I think music is far from dead. In fact I find it thriving within the genres of music I listen to. I am thankful for sites like BandCamp and online radio like SomaFM for turning me on to incredible artists I never would have known otherwise. Plus, I have always said that some of the greatest musicians on the planet will never be known. They work 9 to 5 jobs with responsibilities to their families and they get very sparse time to play or create, but they are incredible with their talent.

As far as Prog Rock, I never got into it like many people I know did. The only exception is the band Focus because I'm a huge fan of Jan Akkerman. He was once said to be the greatest guitarist on the planet. To go from that style of music to releasing several classical lute albums is very impressive.

It wasn't, just a general statement I have about how the artistry in music is being ruined by capitalism and how the same system then turning around and complaining about it is rather insulting. The record industry made this problem by design.

I like rock too, but look at where it is culturally today vs 20+ years ago. It's been basically buried to the back ground of popular music. I said this like a decade ago, how many radio stations in your local market play rock? One if you're lucky, and I bet they don't play a lot of songs post 2010, or new songs you don't know. Men, who are the primary demographic who listen to rock, do not buy music, compared to women. Not telling tales outta school but I can count on one hand the amount of cd's I bought once I got a burner and I know I'm not the only guy to do this. Women, buy cds, ringtones, tickets, etc, and because there's all this data that says so, and how pop has the most appeal across all demographics, we've seen a terrible shift away from that feeling Zeppelin can still drop on kids today. Instead, it's music that's forgotten almost as soon as it's popular.

You know who is not a genius, a lot of modern musicians. Helluva bunch of business first types, though.

Every pop song on the radio is influenced by his work, either in the artist's personal experiences, which will undoubtedly phase out a bit over time, or his work in production, which, is probably gonna be around until we evolve to the next phase as a species. 40 odd years later and were still following some of the same production ideas he made popular, both in audio recording, and video production.

loved this 1970.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0F_XiR48Q

thats too funny i just posted a focus utube from the 70s awesome lead player.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0F_XiR48Q

That is not true, even though most musicians 'borrow' from other musicians. The radio stations rammed that music down everyone's throat. His music was barely palpable.

I have listened to "alt rock" for decades. In the 90s much of it became grunge and became wildly popular. Today, when listening to Alt Nation on XM radio, the genre appears to be alt pop more than rock. The 90s rock has now become the Lithium channel, as it doesn't resemble alt rock today's version in any form.