Will classic rock last for all eternity?

Oak Lawn (IL) Reporter ^ | 4/17/03 | Michael M. Bates

[PISANO]

You know, The Locomotion keeps getting better with age

I doubt if Rock n Roll will be around when our sun expands to a red giant and engulfs the entire solar system. So unless we export Rock n Roll to another solar system within the next 4 billion years or so, I fear the DAY THE MUSIC died is inevitable.

[Captiva]

I was also at the reunions during Live Aid...

Did Phil Collins ever hear a Led Zeppelin song??? He looked clueless back there!

[eddie willers]

the statue of W.C. Handy on Memphis' Beale Street,

W.C. Handy
I'm rich and I'm fey
And I'm not familiar with what you played
But I get such strong impressions of your hey day
Looking up and down old Beale Street

Even she is the very epitome of a limousine liberal, I much prefer Joni's music to much of what is played on "Classic" Rock Stations.

[jeremiah]

That's right, just like the music of Bach and Beethoven, led to Frank Sinatra, then to Elvis, Beatles and Donovan. The music of the GenXrs, is going down in history, with Edsels and Presidents Clinton.

[Revolting cat!]

Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, Little Eva, Johnny Tillotson and Freddy Cannon,

Big heroes, every one of them! Series!

[Captiva]

This great tune has sold cars too! Jim Rome uses it like Rush uses My City Was Gone by the Pretenders

[InvisibleChurch]

[Captiva]

For the record, Im a Gen-X'er (blech, I hate that term) and I do not listen to M&M&M, Inane Clown Puss, or much of anything else that fraudently trys to pass itself off as music or talent.

"You sound like my parents"

[Tribune7]

Do we really want to be listening to bands like Bad Company when we're in the retirement home?

Yes! I want the Muzak to be playing Foreigner's "Rev on the Red Line" or anything by Journey.

[Tribune7]

Led Zepplin is classic in the sense of the AMC Pacer.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Rock and Roll has already been exported to every solar system within 50 light-years via radio and will echo through the universe forever regardless of the fate of the earth and humanity. Just waiting for confirmation from SETI or one of Art Bell's successors.

[Revolting cat!]

Little Eva dead? Saw nothing in the papers! That was a monster hit, but a few years later when Carole King became prominent we saw (or heard) that Little Eva did little more than imitate Carole's demo note for note, inflection for inflection. That's all right, they all do it.

As far as this stuff lasting, don't make me laugh! Rudy Valee's stuff was supposed to last too! Bing Crosby anyone? Cole Porter, Irwin Berlin are nearly forgotten now considering their prodigious output, and will be completely forgotten in a couple of decades, save for a small handful of embarassing lounge standards and jazz themes. It's a generational thing, that's all. I made a note recently of how the oldies section in my local TOWER Records outlet has been shrinking over the years.

I'm reminded of a quote in a Russian film I saw recently (The Russian Ark:

"Everyone knows the future, but nobody remembers the past!"

Even George Harrison knew that "All Things Must Pass"!

[TruBluKentuckian]

Heard the Allmans new cd, Hittin' the Note yet? Damn fine.

[Chi-townChief]

Classic Rock is to pop music what the Seniors' Tour is to golf.

[ffusco]

Target market me Baby!

[ffusco]

I saw the Allman Brothers in NYC in 1993....or was it the Doobie Brothers?........C.S.N. and sometimes Y?

[TruBluKentuckian]

The only time I've had the thrill of seeing the ABB was in 1986 at Volunteer Jam in Nashville. It was their "reunion" concert. It was... incredible... only word for it. What a band.

[ffusco]

Or This:http://bloodsweatandgears.com/images/special/zAPR03feature.html

[billbears]

She was living in Kinston. That's like a holding pattern for death

Hey now Appy, you're forgetting about the walking tour of Downtown Kinston. I mean I could probably spend days in the Caswell No. 1 Fire Station Museum not mention the hours that could be whittled away in the Community Council for the Arts. LOL

[maxwell]

HEY! You fergot AC/DC! DUDE!

And G&R. And REM. (Mid-career.) And Eagles. And George Thoroughgood. And uhhhhh my brain is fried right now or I'd think of more...