I though I was done with Queensryche....Now I am sure of it....

[Hardrock69]

Geoff Tate says "Rock is Dead". That was the same lame bullshit people were saying 20 years ago.....and 20 years before that. If rock is dead, what is this music that hundreds of millions of people are listening to?

If he hates rock music so much, he should fucking retire, but I guess he wants to ride his "Dead Horsie" into the ground.....

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=160793

Classic Rock: Songs like "Wot We Do" sound like hip-hop. Can rock fans handle that?

Geoff: Well, I think they should. Rock is pretty much dead. If you look at the numbers, it's definitely not the music of the times anymore. If it's gonna keep moving, bands need to embrace new ideas. There's a lot of elements to rock that, mentally speaking, are kinda boneheaded. Like the whole "chunk-chunk-chunk" guitar progression — the stuff you play when you're learning the damn thing. You would hope bands would get beyond that.

Classic Rock: Wikipedia describes QUEENSRŸCHE as "progressive metal." So you agree?

Geoff: Absolutely not. I never want to be in anybody's genre. I don't want anybody to ever tell me what I belong to, where I should go, what I'm part of. That's not anybody's business but my own. Brackets are so over. Honestly, these days, with record companies pretty much gone, all the rules are changing. There's not gonna be any need for genres or categorization, it's all gonna be alphabetical order. The beauty of the Internet is that we can all invent ourselves any way we wish.

He just insulted a lot of people who like "chunka chunka chunk" music.

Guess he made his millions and does not care....who the fuck are the fans anyway? Has he been talking to spEd lately?

[VAiN]

I dunno, I agree... I believe he's referring to the Korns, Limp Bizkits, etc.. of the world... and yes, that stuff is crap. So to that extent, I agree, rock is dead. Can you name me a 'guitar hero' from the last 10-15 years? That era has gone bye-bye... It's not popular with the majority of young people.

[Seshmeister]

Queensryche peaked around 20 years ago and have been in a slow miserable decline ever since.

[chefcraig]

Queensryche peaked around 20 years ago and have been in a slow miserable decline ever since.

You can pretty much say that about any group that existed 20 years ago.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

saw them last halloween, and i thought they sounded wonderful. a good nostalgia show.

[binnie]

Rock ain't dead. That's complete and utter crap - there's great stuff out there, not on the radio, but then it never was.

Has anyone heard the new Queensryche record? It is beyond woeful. Seriously, it sounds like a parody of a bunch of dads who are trying to impress their teenage daughters friends.

[Coyote]

Can you name me a 'guitar hero' from the last 10-15 years?

Alexi Laiho?

[binnie]

Would Dimebag Darrell count? He'd be active in that period.

Chris Brodderick, Jeff Loomis, Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah).

There's a new band - Sylosis - who have an epic guitar player. Yes, it's not got clean vocals, but it's a hell of a record.

[Sam42]

Rock is really dead to the majority of kids today. My nephew, who's 15, a fine kid, who plays football, very popular, wanted me to teach him some guitar licks and stuff. He absolutely loves hard rock and can't get enough of old school VH and other bands. I can ask him any day of the week if any of his friends or other kids his age listen to rock. He just laughs and tells me everyone thinks his taste in music is weird. All they listen to is rap and other crap.

[Anonymous]

Alexi Laiho?

Who?

Would Dimebag Darrell count? He'd be active in that period.

Chris Brodderick, Jeff Loomis, Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah).

There's a new band - Sylosis - who have an epic guitar player. Yes, it's not got clean vocals, but it's a hell of a record.

Of course Dimebag counts. He's the only one in your list that does.

Guitar HEROES, those that everyone knows & loves, not extremely good garage/basement guitar players that no one gives a fuck about because they're either boring, too technical, both or just plain unoriginal.

And of course, when you have to tell us which band the guy plays on, well... you should realise by yourself that basically rules him out.

Cheers! :bottle:

[Unchainme]

He's not exactly wrong in my eyes.

And of course, you'll get a binnie or a few of my friends who love a lot of the new rock n'roll out there. And more power to them, it just ain't my cup of tea. Plus I don't feel like digging through it to try find a new band, I kinda like just being able to find stuff a bit easier than that.

Problem is. simply this. A lot of the good rock bands that may or may not be out there are not getting air time from the rock stations, MTV, etc. The local DJ for example, ain't going to be taking in this new hot record a buddy of his recommended or MTV isn't going accidentally play this generations GN'R or Nirvana record. In radio, it's controlled by the labels and clear channel what's getting played. The DJ's just play whats on the setlist and sit back bored. MTV? It's either showing some show about guidos getting drunk, teens getting knocked up or fuck..they even play movies on there. And if you do catch music on the channel it's usually at like 3 am and usually complete shit teeny bopper-pop or "hip-hop" with lame fuck rhyme skills and beats.

For the time being Rock Is Dead.

[sadaist]

Would Dimebag Darrell count? He'd be active in that period.

Chris Brodderick, Jeff Loomis, Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah).

There's a new band - Sylosis - who have an epic guitar player. Yes, it's not got clean vocals, but it's a hell of a record.

Dimebag would count as a guitar hero. But the others, even as good as they are, are not 'heroes'. They aren't the household names.

Maybe we should just see if we can make a lit of any rock musician that is a household name from the last 15 years.

Dave Grohl?
Dimebag for sure.
Kid Rock perhaps?
Jack White?

ummmmm.............................


Rock isn't dead...but it's definitely on life support. I know what we need in dire times like this.

[Etienne]

...Can you name me a 'guitar hero' from the last 10-15 years? ...

If Dimebag counts, what is with John Petrucci of Dream Theater?

Well not household name...

[VAiN]

If Dimebag counts, what is with John Petrucci of Dream Theater?

Well not household name...

Yes. That and Dream Theater are... ummm... an acquired taste? You can't really hum the tunes. To me they sound like math. I don't like math.

[sadaist]

To me they sound like math. I don't like math.