is rock 'n' roll dying, or is it already dead?

I'm curious as to how many active members there are on progaqrchives.com.  I know they cite something like 40,000 members, but when I look at the forum board, there are usually only a few viewers if any at all on any one forum.

Maybe it's just that nobody cares about Flash and people don't like being advertised at.

You two are clean ignorant.

There is a difference between being interested in a band (I'm interested in lot's of bands) and willing to shell out money and time to go see them in our busy lives---as opposed to just watching them on YouTube---I love prog but there are only a handful of groups that I will take the time and go see live--usually just the one's I'm obsessed with---and they usually have someone in the band that I'm a fan boy for---but that's just me.

Knobby wrote: You two are clean ignorant.   I care about Flash.   Great band.   You dont care about Flash? Then prepare to be saddled with the consequences: you are ignorant of good music, Jimmehs.

Have you their latest album? Have you reviewed it? Have you commented upon it in the forum? Do you even know they've released an album this year?

... so that's a "no" to all four questions then.

To answer your questions, I buy between 100 & 150 cd's a year split pretty much 50:50 between old & new stuff. I go to two festival a year and around 10 to 12 other concerts, everything between 10 and 2000 people.

Flash aren't really my thing, I checked out their material but it ain't for me. 

I'm doing what I can to support the music but that doesn't include people overly forcefully pushing bands I'm not into.


Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - June 30 2013 at 19:32

As long as people are listening to it and bands are playing it, whether the music is new or not, Rock is not dead.  That is not to say it is in the mainstream of popularity.  We live in strange musical times.  Many of us remember when Rock was the height of popularity and when several Prog bands were extremely popular.  The music listening public is fickle, however, and the unwashed masses are content to hear only what amuses them at the moment.  There is more music now that is more widely available than ever before.  I am not that familiar with the music of Flash, but it is good to hear that they are still active.  Right now, I am listening to Todd Rundgren's Utopia, which I just bought (and he just released a new album).  I have acquired several dozen albums this year so far, mostly through purchase but also through trading with some buddies of mine.  Little of that is brand new, however.

Ambient Hurricanes wrote: Rock 'n Roll is very much alive and well.  It has moved out of the mainstream.  That is all.

qft

Edited by sherrynoland - July 01 2013 at 19:41