Rock is Dead? Full Film: Nirvana, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, KISS, Greta Van Fleet, Pink Floyd
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2019
- 'Rock is Dead?' is my most recent music documentary. It features musicians and/or producers from KISS, Nirvana, Scorpions, Greta Van Fleet, Sum 41, Nightwish, Kamelot, Dream Theater, Grand Funk Railroad, & more. The cast in alphabetical order: Steve Albini, Ellen Allien, Tyler Bryant, Gary Cobain, Black Coffee, Courtney Cox, Troy Donockley, Jack Endino, Waka Flocka Flame, Emma Hewitt, Sam Kiszka, Dylan Kongos, John Kongos, Bruce Kulick, Cone McCaslin, Linda McDonald, Wanda Ortiz, Charles Peterson, Mike Portnoy, Kristen Rosenberg, Eddie Trunk, Danny Wagner, Alice Wheeler & Thomas Youngblood.
My original music documentary, 'What is Classic Rock?', features musicians from Guns N' Roses, The Doobie Brothers, Twisted Sister, Jethro Tull, Billy Talent, Grand Funk Railroad, The Guess Who, Korn, KISS, Triumph, Styx, Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro, Randy Bachman, Country Joe McDonald, Megadeth, Blood Sweat & Tears, Mr. Big, Black 'N Blue, OHM, LA Guns, Sweetwater, Vince Neil & more.
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Both *Rock is Dead?* and *What is Classic Rock?* are completely self-funded DIY films, thanks for watching.
Cheers,
Daniel
Excellent work! Subbed of course. Thx!!
Is there a way I can make a monetary donation for your efforts?
@Jensen JamesThank you Jensen I sincerely appreciate that: The best way to support me is to purchase my other film "What is Classic Rock?" - links are in the video description.
Lots of rock tunes and MALT LIQUOR on my channel
Good job! People always say good music is out there if you look. The problem is the average person won't ever do it. The result is they continue consuming stuff that is overproduced and lacks the human element. A lot of people act like all rock is death metal or something.
“You were not born in the wrong generation you were born in the right one to keep rock alive” -slash
Would you keep it alive
Hell yea rock is life 🤙
Absolutely. I share all new rock music with people. My wife is not a rock fan, maybe the closest is that she likes a couple Zep tunes. I successfully got her into Ghost. One more person converted.
@@psuengineer84 Check out Porcupine Tree. Early albums: Signify, Stupid Dream and Sky Moves Sideways. Later more metal but early is wonderful Floydish and rock guitar with beautiful "Echoes" like vocals. You will dig it. Steve is a nice guy too. Know him. Cheers Mate!
Plenty of rock these days. Again, check out the "stoner" and "doom" bands. Not Doom Metal. It is pure rock and roll. Desert Rock, Stoner Rock - we called it rock and roll in 1978. Same! Dig it!
Rock fans are partly to blame for the downfall of Rock as the top genre. When a new band comes along that does well we tend to shit on them cuz we only like music from our past. We gotta embrace the young rock talent.
I totally agree, I've been a classic rock, prog rock and metal fan for years but never really like any of the new stuff till I found the Djent/Prog Metal genre with bands that came out within the past ten years like Periphery, Vitalism, Chon, Animals as Leaders ect... And they have kick started my love for rippin' guitars and complex but beautiful music, not the mind numbing Pop shit being mass produced today.
Nick Knee the main thing with new bands is they get hidden nowadays. There’s so much music out there cuz people make decent home recordings it’s hard to find the gems.
Nick Knee the problem with these new bands is that I don’t feel they represent me ..they don’t have attitude..they play video games on their tour bus ..they might sound decent but rock and roll is visual too ..it’s what you project to people ..it’s like women want to fuck you and men want to be like you ..and I don’t get that from these new bands ..they are like stupid teenagers that likes to get high and play video games everyday
A lot of these modern bands are just so generic. Making what someone has already made instead of going for something different. Some just sound super generic making bland boring music. They give no hooks to get you into the music. Riffs are generic and uncreative, vocals are uncreative aswell...same goes for the bass and drums. Djent and Metalcore, have a lot of bands that have that pretty boy voice vocals that in my opinion are lame vocals, also always those heavy screams that sound no different from other bands I've heard. Creativity and originality is the problem. But, still there are some bands that are very amazing, yet very underrated. I recently listen to an album called "Red Marks" by a band called Femur. That album was awesome. The riffs where heavy, and riffs I've not heard. The vocals sounded very intense and raw, and it was a screaming style I've not heard much off. Drums and all was very solid. Very good and original album. The energy, rawness and heaviness was there. Definitely recommend to any Metalcore/Punk fans.
Olive Avostrine another factor is getting fans of heavier music to be happy when they’re favorite band gets on a tour with Greta Van Fleet or Five Finger Death punch. Hell....be happy if they get on your with Travis Scott. The name has gotta get out there somehow.
Telling rockers that rock is dead is just about the best way to fuel the feeling of rebellion and non-conformance that drives it. So keep it coming. Art does not need to be mainstream to be valid, beautiful, important, or inspiring.
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Yes, I do indeed concur that Rock is definitely on its last legs! To understand WHY I think one needs to consider WHEN and WHY rock and roll had such impact and became so popular in the FIRST PLACE. Rock and roll first emerged in American during the 1950's - a time when Western society was generally still pretty conservative. The old sexual puritanism and rigid conformity standards still had a pretty strong hold over the masses, and people really needed to UNWIND. THAT is why it resonated so powerfully with all those teenagers of THAT decade, and pretty well continued to with young people of the following few decades (the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s). But NOW, in 2020, people don't need rock and roll to unwind cause that old conservatism is pretty well DEAD, or it certainly isn't as pervasive as it was in the past, and most people are already so LOOSE to begin with! In the FUTURE Rock MUSIC will probably still always BE THERE, but it'll be just another kind of music, like any other kind (classical, jazz, salsa, tango, polka, whatever). And it will probably always have it's admirers, like any other kind of music does, but it will never be a BIG PHENOMENON or have any MAJOR IMPACT ever again, .. . THAT is definitely HISTORY.
Rock isn’t dead, the industry is! There’s so many new bands that are good but, as it’s pointed out throughout this doc, the internet has completely changed the game for better AND for worse. Selling records is just not what it used to be for anyone, and the big players (record labels, radio and TV) have all lost a lot of the power they had to break an artist. Us artists must adapt in order to survive. It’s that simple.
So how many great rock albums were released over the last ten years and how many that are like: here we go again? Just a few examples as I can remember. But let me know what great rock bands I havent heard of. (besides King Gizzard and Ty Segall who are amazing)
@@robertsteinberger5667 Jack White and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (with a returning John Frusciante) have each released an album this week, and they both plan to release another one later in the year. I know, they're not new acts, but they're still relevant.
Rock and Pop music was always marketed towards young people. Youth culture is all about Rap/Hip Hop and EDM music. Also, young people don’t purchase physical media, which is why the coveted ‘record deal ‘ doesn’t exist anymore.
@Hulk Hogan Are you insinuating that they're not rock bands? Or what? Have you never seen them play?
@Hulk Hogan I suppose you could say that in a very broad sense of the word, as the UK press used to call bands like Cream and Zeppelin "pop groups" back in the day.
"If you see some guitar in music store. It means rock still alive." - Keith Richards.
i was walking in Fnac going to search some vinyl and it was playing mother by pink floyd so rock is not dead :)
---ROCK in the west might of just fulfilled its fuction as a force of progressive social change but as a musical genre I dont think its dead. The corporate gutting of depth has always been there but the clear channel type of change in media made it all worse and lowered quality, the internet has promoted a continuation of diversification though. Certain "Grunge" seemed to be the last breath of progressive social change of rocak and was a backlash of the 80s rock which was a reflection that society had already changed or been gutted by the more predatorial hallow capitalist elements. Rock helped break America and white America especially out of the rigid mental confines of the 40s, 50s and 60s
---EDM doesnt seem to be force of progressive social change but it does seem to have an interesting international element.
---HIP HOP is still force of progressive social change, partially because of its roots being connected to the black communities relation to the Civil Rights Movement and then because it has extended from that. But there are still there more hallow predatorial corporate elements which risk a genres potential to be a force of progressive social change. Hip Hop is a social movement, a culture, like rock used to be.
The "music business" part of the problem because the emphasis on the corporate destroys the emphasis on a genre as potential for real social movement. If it is not a real social movement (as opposed to corporate bullshit) it is DEAD!
Not many music stores left. That's the problem.
No rock is dead...
Pop music uses guitars too tho, even dating all the way back to Michael Jackson's era (or maybe even before)
I was once a musician, I had a hundred and one projects going. Always tried to make the best songs possible with my band, fully believed in what we were doing. I was right on that transition period were you still had to make demos and send them around but on the other hand things like Myspace started to pop up very soon after. After the twentieth band or so, the social media aspect and 'blowing things out of proportion' like a manager or someone told us to do just didn't rub me the right way. I'm here to make music, not work on a fucking theater play you know. So I quit. But seeing this now kinda makes me think it's a shame. Someone's gotta push the fucking cart man. So to all my struggling fellow musicians, trying to survive in this digital wasteland. Don't you dare go hollow my friends. I love you all!
Im 30 and have grew and transitioned with the transitions of social media. Im the same way, either listen to my music or dont. But i dont wanna have to pimp myself and my tunes out. You put soo much into videos and idk it just sucks your soul fast. I just wanna play shows again, i dont wanna do this social media bs smh.
and that right there is why the most successful rock musician is a DEAD one... (sucks but true)
@@justinfbabay I'm with you there, brother.
Goodluck for the best of everything to you
im trying to start my band with some friends and i truly believe that we could bring back rock to at least a small group
"You used to make money from sales, now you do from touring"
2020: hi
I'm watching this documentary now that I have plenty of time, Corona still going strong, and because I miss live music. I swear, I'm going to ALL the rock concerts I didn't go because this and that and bla bla bla.... How I wasted so much time working and not living properly! Music is the best thing coming out of the homo sapiens.
@@lalainamimi Agreed! I already bought a few tickets for next year's gigs over in my country! Also... the perfect time to learn how to play an instrument!
@@ivotrindade1669 exactly, my guitar skills are improving :).
I also bought tickets for pinkpop festival ... Hopefully that will happen next year..?! Good luck to you with your gigs!!
"You can't kill Rock 'N Roll - IT'S HERE TO STAY!!"
(Ozzy Osbourne)
Wolf Man I’m for Ozzie and Black Sabbath but Danny and the juniors said it first in the 50s even chuck berry said hail hail rock en roll
@@bradleythoman608 *_OZZY_* 🤘🏻
u cant even kill Ozzy
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Rock isn’t dead, it’s just on an extended vacation in Europe, South America and Asia.
Best answer ever!
And Canada my dude
Rumors of Rock’s death have been greatly exaggerated... as Samuel Clemens was known to say... buckle your seatbelts folks .
It’s happening now
No
I am 8 years older than my wife and she has always said the music i grew up listening to is the BEST. The 90's Nirvana,NIN,Smashing pumpkins,Alice in Chains,Tool,..etc. Now my daughter is 16 and she loves the same music. Hip hop is so "flavor of the week"
Rap is « not flavour of the week », it’s been the biggest genre in the music industry since the late 90s, early 2000s.
Rock will never die. It just isn't mainstream anymore.
rock is about breaking the mold but rock has become the mold....
The big times of the time have just become bigger already selling out big stadiums while at the time in their peak we’re able only to sell out big arenas
You cannot destroy the metal... the metal will live on
Tenacious D said it. And it is true
So what do you do when your born in the wrong time? You make it yours.
-Nikki Sixx
fuck yeah man
Fuckin right! Never saw that quote before, thanks for sharing!🤘🏼👍🏼
The dirt huh? Niceeeeeee..... I love the crue
@@victortrujillo1908 yhyh bro more bands should be like them
@@oliwl7811 ikr their atitude was so cool
Rock is not dead. It’s taking a breather, waiting for the people who will lift it back to the top, for the people who dedicate themselves to performance on a level that unites. It’ll happen. Beatles seemed to come out of nowhere. It’ll happen again. Keep the Faith!
Hold my beer bro
Exactly, it just takes certain chemistry with certain people. Then also for older people like me to get off my ass more and WRITE!
By the time my parents music was done (Swing) - it was no longer filling concert venues, but high school auditoriums. R&R is off the Top 20, but it can still sell tickets at large live venues, festivals, etc
"why would anyone pay for something that they can get for free" -
I own over 10,000 physical music albums. and am always buying more. I will never let the hard copy die. I guess I am just a modern day fool.
I don't have that many , but i like to buy physical récords too. CD's
That’s very noble of you and a good way to support those artists so good on you.
Holy crap... and I thought I was bad at 1200. That I had to move around a lot and eventually gave in to putting them all on my iTunes and getting more there. The convenience is great, though something I learned the hard way is that if iTunes stops carrying an album for whatever reason, it disappears from your library. Not a huge fan of that.
This 👏🏻, I own band albums and shirts, I would like to tell those idiots that those band shirts they wear “Because the font and design are cool.” Are giving money to these bands because ya know band shirts are Free. I swear rap and pop fans are such mouth breathers and posers
Free?? That depends! I don't mind paying for live music
Rock was my upbringing, I was just a little girl who grew up listening to Metallica, Guns’n’Roses, and many more rock artists! I’m 19 years old now in 2020 still listening to the same rock bands. Who says rock is dead? I’m making my own kids listen to the classics man!
Same here, my 11 year old loves Nirvana and RHCP, while all her friends are into Cardi B crap.
I'm 20 and recently got a guitar, after which i am starting on my journey in the rock world. If there are people like me and you, i guess rock will never die
@@savagedick3848 Keep her Nirvana Spirit alive! I mean, her ROCK spirit!
My kids listen to Black Sabbath and Rush. Their beta friends listen to crap like Nirvana and RHCP.
@@mramos1126 why dont you like nirvana
I'd also like to add that the thing I miss about the pre-internet music era is how, when one of your favorite bands released a new album, first of all, you had to wait until it was actually released to hear it, but more importantly, usually only 1 or 2 of your friends or yourself would be the first to get their hands on it and I miss getting together and hearing a new album for the first time with my friends. Sitting around and talking about the music and the songs and how cool this part is or whatever...that doesn't happen anymore...it's like oh..Opeth released a new album? I'll go skim through it on youtube while multitasking other shit...it just sucks man. And all these younger generations are never going to get that important human
experience
Lots of us kids still got together and did that in the internet era! There might not have been a physical album involved, but it was otherwise the same situation you described!
That sounds so dope, I wish I knew what that was like fr fr
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I never got to experience this and its so sad
Change can be a bitch.
Jim Morrison predicted what we’re seeing today.
And the blues brothers
There's that creep interview where he totally explains the future as it is today.
Our society today is so economically different from then. 80's and '90's one could have a crappy job, apartment or studio, get an instrument and have time to create. Those days are gone.
I agree, I genuinely believe economics plays a far greater part in this than most people realize
@@alexandriaorcld6365 Survival in our society depends on the ability to play the market. I'm old enough to remember when that wasn't the case.
Lol what are you talking about? Today is the very best era in history for a single person that is driven to create, produce and distribute their music... and it happens every day. The internet and computers made this possible. Nobody could do that just 20 years ago.
@@jamesbarrick3403 Good for you.
@@jamesbarrick3403 yeah but the margin to make it into that world and have success is minimum.. Not everyone can be a well known UA-cam o create an app
"The brand is bigger than the band". That statement to me personally is scarier than any "threat" that file sharing or the internet in general could have ever been.
Lol! KISS is the poster child for selling the "brand" (and the semi-annual "Farewell Tour"!!!)
@@hurdygurdyguy1 Exactly! That's why that shook me. It would suck if every thing went full KISS.
Thank you for making this documentary. Reinspired my hopes for pursuing rock (not that I would ever stop)
As Neil Young Said "Hey Hey, My, My, rock and roll will never die, and it won't
Rock and roll will never die -Neil young....Rock fills stadiums in my city hip hop couldn't draw flies
“They” have been saying rock is dead for years and years. It’s like the tide, it ebs and flows. Or waves...you gotta wait for sets for good ones. They can’t all be the Beatles, Black Sabbath or Nirvana but there will be another “big thing”! MUSIC WITH VOCALS, GUITARS and DRUMS will never die!
And bass guitar
FuckTard01 yeah I was gonna put that but figured “guitar” covered bass too. I can’t live without my bass playing rhythm brothers
it's kind of hard to become the "big thing" when the sampling size is massive compared to what it was in the early 90's. i was there, i was 14 when kurt died. all we had back then was MTV, the radio and the occasional fanzine distributed at your local skateshop (or if you were someone like me, you had a cool cousin with a deep vinyl collection and a serious case of music elitism).... today you have the internet (with youtube, soundcloud, spotify), 1000 different music channels dedicated to single genres and the occasional popstar plucked from obscurity because he was discovered on tiktok. it's saturated, therefore creating a "new big thing" is nearly an impossible task.
aw yah As a drummer I can not condone the use of electronic drums exclusively.
aw yah Dancing, while important, is not the first thing that comes to mind when I think rock & roll. There must be a certain energy or feel or vibe. A “human element” is lost with e-drums....imo.
It's definitely not dead you just have to look harder for it.
With the internet and UA-cam it should be even easier than ever to find good new rock bands..problem is there are none
Jabagh Nakhjo That’s kinda the point though before u didnt have to look hard rock was everywhere in popular music circles now its not like that even though I don’t think its dead
@@hotlanta35 Because there is no money in it anymore. It's just not profitable. Sort of like the pager or the fax machine. Some old people might be stubborn and try to fax every now and then but it's over. Who's going to become a rock musician and starve to death?
@@hotlanta35 only people who say 'there are none' have not researched the rock scene, locally, nationally, worldwide.
@@annarks70 I think it's just cause it's not in the mainstream that a lot of people assume there aren't any good new bands out there
Fantastic work! I'm amazed by how eloquent Albini and Endino are. Their spoken word is almost at philosopher level. Knowledgable and balanced.
Rock n roll isnt dead. The new generations are just too blind too see how energetic this music. Im 17 and i love all the rock that was around in the 70's 80's and 90's i reckon it was the best music of our time. Sucks it isnt made much now but we need the world to all come together once again. Listen to these masterpieces and write more rock again.
EDM and hip hop is more hypnotic, whereas rock is more emotional. These key differences will distinguish music lovers from people that just want to get zoned out by repetitive and mindless crap. Rock will never die.
Yeah rock was during a rebellious era. Now music represents the robotic people we are.
I basically agree. I'd word it a little different though.
Rock will never die because the right Rock music has lyrics that will stand the test of time.
But there's a time and a place for Rap/hip-hop and EDM as well...
Agree for EDM, hip hop not so much. Yes there's all the stupid mumble rap, but there's also lots of great hip hop like Kendrick, Tyler the Creator, Injury Reserve (RIP Groggs), Kanye (mostly), JPEGMAFIA, Slowthai etc..
I hate when people generalize a genre I don’t know much about edm but hip hop is not all repetitive and mindless it has its bad seeds like every genre does but there is a lot of great rap music and rap musicians it’s annoying when ppl say stuff like that you should try to actually listen to it and go deeper into the music instead of counting it out I genuinely used to think rock was just screaming over guitar before I actually listened to it and now I know better
i would prefer to be dead or on anesthesia to consider EDM rock or any genre of 'music'
Rock isn't dead. It's just asleep in the United States. It's still very much alive worldwide 🔥
Not true, I think is pretty asleep in Europe too, it's an electronic music culture
I agree for the most part. However, there are ‘newish’ rock bands that can pack stadiums in North America, a good example being Ghost.
@@havenlane992 EDM has been popular in Europe since the 90s.
@@pillsareyummy Yeah and Ghost fucking sucks, perfectly exemplary of the rotting, stinking corpse that is rock today.
Metal is making a comeback. EMC only became popular because it was cheaper for clubs to hire a DJ. Rock makes a comeback every few decades and then it goes underground. It always comes back in a new form.
This is great, thank you! Was SO happy see musicians from bands like Nightwish and Kamelot. I never see them included in stuff like this. I enjoyed this a lot. 🙏
This is brilliant, Daniel. Like enthrallingly so.
And now I know what that instrument is that makes that sound you always heard in older movies and TV commercials!
This is a great film.
Nice job! Thank you for making this film and reminding us that Rock has always been a vehicle for questioning the status quo. A computer could never have written "Smells like teen spirit", "Stairway to heaven" or "Purple Haze". And that's why Rock will never die.
Mike Portnoy
Drums, every band
lmao. Loved that.
Hahaha, glad you caught that
It's true lol
That used to be said of Cozy Powell
Hellhammer - Drums, every band Mike Portnoy hasn't discovered yet.
None of his bands are listenable.
Rock will never die....it's just that hip-hop these days with young people is more popular due to the fact that hip-hop is dominated by simple beats that are easy to digest....that's mainly it....it's simpler music...and that gives it a broader appeal...makes sense....
people said the same thing about rock when it challenged blues / jazz. rock as it existed in the past will never be the same. music will have guitars, but it won't sound like classic rock.
The lack of mistery and the beauty of slow discovery is a really central point. I remember back in the days being at a concert being interested in this band, then realiizing shortly after i had one song from them on a mixtape my girlfriend did for me and again recollecting that i saw an interview to the guys on mtv and finally making them my fabourite band for couple of years and still loving and listening to them. That s the key point you cannot overlook: the slow discovery of your next favourite rock & roll band
I could listen to Steve Albini talk for days on end.
Really? Because he seems like a high and mighty audiophile douchebag.
Jack Endino too.
@bmarovic79 Yeah I'm inclined to agree. I don't know why anyone would hold him in contempt for being articulate and having a really well considered point of view . He's unusually perceptive and intuitive about more things than music.
Same.
@@gfx2943 Far from it
I'm 55 years old and have been playing music for twice as long as the guys in Greta van Fleet have been alive. I LOVE THESE KIDS!!! I don't give a shit what anybody says about them, I am so HAPPY that they are doing what they're doing and I sincerely hope that they keep doing it until long after I have been pushing up daisys!!!!!!!
You have true rock spirit. Rock on brother 🤘🏻
They were kind of dissed early on as being a Zeppelin rip off but I never cared because they were good at it, good live and wrote their own stuff. But they really have been coming into their own and show other influences and more originality. It is bands like this that come along every 5-10 years and prove rock is alive and well.
@joe blanco someone didnt watch the video.....
Ya anybody that flys the rocknroll flag is cool in my book. , hail hail , rocknroll
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This is great - thanks for your work on UA-cam / this is a great documentary and I like how you conduct interviews - you let the interviewees simply talk. Thank for the good work
I loved this vlog! There were excellent interviews to support points being made. Love the point about selling out vs growing artist as related to internet exposure. Just great!
I grew up on rock, punk and metal music and I have always found myself actually happy listening to all the bands I love like KISS, Metallica, Misfits, Aerosmith, Ratt, Europe, Lita Ford, etc. Pop makes me angry and it doesn’t give me feeling and no matter how much people try to make me listen to pop because “it has more soul that what you listen too” I don’t I never understand how it has more soul. I tell the people to read the lyrics to rock songs and compare them to today’s music.
I like a lot of pop but grew up on rock as well. I agree. Some of the pop that comes out are just trash.
I love rock and metal too but try listening to “Assassin” by John Mayer. He’s got lots of great songs but that one especially is good. I don’t like most modern mainstream pop but if you really look you can find good pop and rap
Old.
If rock ain’t NEW, it’s dead.
STRAP ON A GUITAR & MAKE YOUR OWN🇺🇸
Technology made it harder to find good music. I can listen to 20 newer artists every day for a year, and not become a fan of any of them. Years ago, I'd buy a magazine like Metal Maniacs, and become a fan of 3 bands every issue.
It's saturated now. Everybody with 3 months guitar experience and a good computer has an "album" out now.
@@kungpao-wp2sq Nah, I just do UA-cam and CDs
@@AquarianAngel Any recommendations? Am sincerely interested, always on the lookout for good music/avenues to good music.
Stoned medow of doom, is a youtube channel i highly recommend. Lots of indie metal albums.
@@ryanw1140 Subscribed. :-)
I think it's the opposite. It's easier than every to find good music.
great film Daniel, I really appreciate your minimalist & content-focused approach here, no fluff and a lot of substance. I’m in a rock band and I use that same minimalist ethic when I write songs & with how we record our music. I’m a fan bud, keep up the good work
kurts murder gets deeper and deeper the more i look into it and just with my love for that era. the thing albini is talking about at 17:10 makes me believe that the record company was afraid that bands would follow nirvanas foot steps and directly hire engineers, producers, etc....which would give the band more control and the label less....albini perfectly sums it up
Oh ffs stfu with that shit.
💯. Michael Jackson, Sam Cooke, Lynard Skynard, etc we’re all in major disputes with their labels before their deaths/murders. Jackson was a week away from owning Sony, but then his doctor killed him with a massive overdose. Wishing 72 hours, Sony made $750,000,000 off Jackson’s music and shares. Is 750 million enough to be motive for murder? Yes it is
He wasn’t murdered he was a drug addict who killed himself while on a withdrawal. Anyone who knows an addict knows it’s very common. Whenever you hear some famous person commits self deletion it’s usually drugs
We need good songwriters. That's it.
Best music 1950's thru early '90's Music today sucks... Teen/early 20's in 80's. Best decade ever!!!😁🤟
@@yousee66 nah, Nirvana, oasis green day into foo fighters, blink 182 etc was great too. Then the whole indie scene had some great rockers like the White Stripes.
@@rickyknowles yeah I wasn't a grunge person. More 80's. I saw Sound Garden, Warrior Soul when they opened up for Danzig in ATL In '90....freaking awesome!!!
@@yousee66 bet that was brilliant. Yeah only nirvana is grunge out that list, rest a mixture of pop punk rock and rock and roll
@@rickyknowles yup...used to work in music biz in atl from '86-'94
I can't wait for rock to cycle back around. A lot of rap and hip hop these days is real crap.
As a fan of both rock and rap since I was a kid, you’re so wrong about rap you sound really ignorant
@@rhinestonecowboy9720 I meant "these days"...But I hear you..I probably am on this topic.
All rap is crap
rock is White music...it won't be coming back.
@Don Curtis amen, as a bass player my self people ask me all the time: " why to practice bass if I can create on my PC/Mac?" and that pisses me off so bad because that is why today music suck because we don't have real musicians we have a bunch of kids and people with software that let them created bets so simple but because make people move their bodies there become the number 1 hit.
this is honestly the greatest thing i’ve ever seen, keep going you are sooooo talented💌💌
Man, this is amazing!!! I am Brazilian and I can confirm Endino's statement about South America: rock'n'roll for us is the sound of freedom! Freedom from the shackles of dictatorship that alienated us from so much. The birth of great Brazilian rock and roll bands were in the late 80s and it has remained, for the most part, an underground scene until this moment. Thank you for this
Mmmmm brazilian girls 🤤 ass for days
Im 25 and have been building my vinyl collection over the past few years, it is nostalgic almost for me, not because I had vinyl specifically as a kid. I'd say in my mind the feeling of ripping open the plastic, inspecting every little piece that came with it, takes me back to buying games when I was younger, and opening it in the car on the way home and reading the manual (sadly gone now). It's so exciting getting home and seeing the vinyl sized delivery on the doorstep, I always play them straight away.
A lot of wise people told me “Everything cycles back around”
we need to start by infusing rock with pop, so eventually they get used to it and we can go full hard rock!
Heroic I couldn’t agree more with you.If people want rock to come back to the mainstream it has to evolve with the times. Also another thing that has to happen is people need to stop being so closed minded “especially in the metal community”about bands that do something different. There are so many bands that should have been bigger but because they were Nu Metal/Metal/Deathcore/Emo the elitist discredit them as “False Metal” and also chases away any chance of bringing in newer fans.I could go on and on.
this new generation of pussies needs to get their heads out of their asses for Rock to come back with power
@Jesus is Dog : i've never been a fan of hip hop. I truly believe that it killed Rock music. i've been trying for over 20 years to make my own music and I can't make anything that satisfies my tastebuds.
and its coming right now....
Excellent topic, production (for the topic) and choice of people for opinions. The engineers and producers in this video really hit the mark for me...open minded and on top of the moment....especially when one admits he can't tell sometimes if a song was produced in an expensive recording studio or at home mixed by someone who understands the music he/she is mixing!
Love this documentary. One of the best music documentaries ever made. So real and educational.
Imagine you're in a large room. Surrounding you, in a circle, is the current slate of pop, RnB and rap artists. In the back are all the rockers and singer songwriters. You know they exist, they're in the room but how are you supposed to see them with all those others blocking your way?
That's the problem with current rock: the spotlight is not on them anymore.
Yep - and why don't they have the spotlight? Solo act music / EDM / modern hip hop / modern pop is so damn CHEAP TO MAKE. 1 producer, 1 singer (who doesnt even have to sing well), and a big basket fully prepared of written for all the major labels by a small cadre of professional songwriters who all write by formula. The majors LOVE IT because its a REALLY CHEAP AND QUICK way to make music that will chart, get airplay and bring in more money more quickly. THAT'S IT!
What do major labels not want under any circumstances? Bands. More bodies cost more money and are harder to manage. Bands are harder to market because there isnt one focal point in the group. Bands are much harder and more expensive to record - microphones levels, tone, mistakes, lots of cutting and pasting etc. And 'Guitar Music' - believe it or not - is a pigeonholed category in the opinion of plenty of execs.
Rock Music is certainly NOT DEAD. But as far as the ignorant, greedy pieces of shit in the major labels it is. Let's cheer for and welcome in the inevitable death of Major labels like Universal and Warner.
Cuando todas las luces han estado sobre el Rock?. Por historia el rock siempre ha estado atras,escondido,solo para las personas que realmente lo buscan.
Y lo peor que le ha pasado al rock es cuando las luces se ponen sobre el,cuando se vuelve mainstream y es lo mismo que el pop o hip-hop o lo que sea.
Todavia hay buen rock. Y como siempre esta atras de todo. Solo tienes que buscar mas. La tecnologia a hecho perezozos musicales. Y si esa banda de rock no esta en tendencias en youtube,entonces piensan que el rock no existe...
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What's funny is that going through school for Music Business, Labels are actually making more money than ever before. One may be forgiven to think that labels are dying and that's why the 360 Deal came about but no... they're doing it solely because they can.
El Cuento Yep nailed it, Economics. Only the very top earners (kiss, mccartney, u2) could afford to continue with it via touring.
@@pascalecnto68 i think u hit the nail on the head there my friend, so true.
Rock Never die. I from indonesia 🇮🇩 my age 19th. I love rock ! I still hearing NIRVANA now ! Everyday i sing and play gitar nirvana song.
this was a really great video. a lot of amazing insight and cool interviews. well done man !
Such a good film! Rock is not dead, just took a break! So many good rock bands coming out nowadays: Ty Segall/ Fuzz, TIDE-EYE, King Gizzard, and so many more!
Seriously. Ozzy is still alive and after all the stuff he did. Rock will never die
Keith Richards too
1:01:26 "Good music is imperfect" my favorite line, great documentary
I guess this is why I follow album 💿 rock so much more than I ever did.
Bands with real talent.
No tracks.
No auto tune.
The full album story front to back.
And our 17 year old son’s musical taste is almost a carbon copy of mine.
That’s very encouraging.
Rock on 🤘🎸🥁🎹🎤🎧🎼❤️
I loved this!
Thank You!🙏 🖤
Jack Endino has so much insight. I could watch you interview him for hours.
Hey hey! My my! Rock'n Roll can never die!
There's more to the picture than meets the eye!
Hey hey! My my!
- Neil Young
The king is gone but hes not forgotten
@@dizzygee87 This is the story of Johnny Rotten.
@@TheSolfilm It's better to burn out, than it is to rust
My my! Hey hey!..... harmonica please!
Being a touring musician for the past 35 years myself, this movie really hit home, especially now with covid19. Thanks for making this DocuMovie. Love it!
Covid hurt the industry a bit by limiting or eliminating many live venues but it is just making people miss it more and it will be back bigger then ever once this nighmare is under control.
Same here ,it hit me also since it's my life also.
Very well made and interesting discussions. A bit sad that the fragments from gigs are often so distorted, but considering this effort, it’s better to have these fragments as they are than to leave them out. And it does reflect the raw energy of a live show, doesn’t it?
I finally got a chance to watch this entirely. Great job on this!
When you say “Rock is Dead”..it actually means..”You are Dead.”.....you have stopped listening..accepting....being curious. Just like other...people who refuse to listen to other forms of music....other than the stuff they know...and don’t care to know anything else.
could even be dormant...like bacteria that survives the harshest environments only to revive under new conditions
Mike Burnside ...exactly!
Very well said!
No, when people say "Rock is Dead" most of the time they're wondering about how it isn't as popular, creatively new, and dominating of the charts anymore.
Without a doubt, this is the best Rock n Roll documentary I have seen in years. It has the same quality as a Sam Dunn production. That's not a comparison, it's a compliment! Wish I had seen this one sooner. Thanks for the hard work.
I got over 4 decades of my favorite music on my playlist.. Enough music to make me happy til I'm dead.
Rock will never die in my world.
Same
Really good work. Well edited and organized. And it's a fascinating topic
That was well put together. Lots of cool interviews!
Thanks a lot
@@DanielSarkissian How did you get these interviews?
Rock will never be dead. It will be there in our hearts forever.
Long live Rock N Roll 🤘🤘🤘
dude I support you but you sound like talking about dead stuff already.
Oh yeah baby!
Hail , hail, rocknroll!
No way! I and millions like me will Never let it die!you see it’s not just music it’s a lifestyle 👍🏻
It's just not mainstream like it once was... Which means decline
This is a great documentary. You know, there was a study done around 2010 that said that almost all people disliked new music from a certain age onwards. I found that disheartening because the thing I loved the most was discovering new great music. However, thanks to Spotify's algorithm I found out that that study was incorrect. I found a ton of new rock bands that inspired me and continue to inspire me since (among them Tyler Bryant and Greta Van Fleet, curiously enough) and made me rock out into a stream of new awesome new songs well into my 30s.
I believe that Rock is not dead, and right now is way easier to find bands that you wouldn't have crossed paths with before the streaming era. Even if you're the only one that likes those bands.
(Mind you I was Born in 1991, raised by parents who shared their music from the 1970’s & 1980’s with me) & I just have to say Rock N’ Roll music WILL NOT EVER DIE!!! Simply because it connects people emotionally through the LOVE of REAL instrumental music! HOPEFULLY the rest of the world can wake up to that fact & allow it to come back! 🤘🏼😆🤘🏼🎸🥁🎤🎹🎸🎷
Very Well Done. This content is extremely important for new artists
Thanks Mercy, appreciate it
If new artists need to come watch this dumpster fire of a documentary for important content than yea, rock is dead.
@@gfx2943 you sure as fuck are spending alot of time in the comments for not being a fan of this documentary!!!!
@@gfx2943 salty bitch
This is an incredibly well done, comprehensive doc. How hard was it to get in touch with these big names? Take care.
Thank you Stella. It was challenging at times, but where there's a will there's way
It’s not that rock is dead, it’s that none of the record companies want to promote it anymore! The record companies spend advertising & promotion for the genres that want to popularize, and they have an obvious bias against rock.
Land of the rising sun Japan is keeping R&R/Metal music alive and well. Phenomenal Rock/Metal music coming out of Japan. Rock group BandMaid is creating some of the best rock music ever made. No joke
Gorevent is one of the best kept secrets to have come out of the Japanese metal scene in recent years. Incredibly catchy, groovy slam / brutal death metal. They deserve to be massive!
Awesome, been following these interviews for a while, amazing to see the whole thing. Thanks for this.
You’re welcome, thank you for watching the film & the interviews. If you could please share the film
As long as there is live music rock will never die ... Even though in the last two decades it's taken a back seat to edm and hip hop but I think it will make a come back in the next decade
nebstaism Are there any bands you think could make a big impact in the next few years?
This is what scares me in the era of Coronavirus. Now that bands can't tour and mumble rap is easy to produce on a computer, how will rock grow and reach a new audience?
Slingerlandia Music Publishing this will pass.
And Rock N Roll - It Will Survive.
@@animaldays2 amen, let's hope so!! My 8 and 9 year old kids are total rockers because I've educated them about the genre's history and they play instruments. But man, when they tell me what all the other kids listen to, it's horrifying...
Slingerlandia Music Publishing oh I know, I graduated high school only a few years ago so I spent the entirety of my years at school surrounded by kids who listened to pop/rap while I was kind of in an outcast crowd and my favorite bands were AC/DC, Van Halen, Dio, Sabbath, Alice In Chains, Motley Crue, Skid Row, GNR, Ozzy, Metallica, Megadeth, Priest, Maiden etc.
I’m sure a lot of my peers look back on high school and get nostalgic for whatever was on the radio, but high school to me was all those bands I just mentioned plus a lot more. And there was a crowd for it believe it or not, we’d hang out after school and listen to Van Halen, AC/DC etc. and smoke weed and drink lol. That was all 5/6 years ago.
Rock music is timeless, I’ve loved it my whole life.
i didn t even finished watching this docu ,and i already have to thank you....finally something real about us,about music and what bad turn it s taking ....
One of the best Docs I've seen in a long time. I miss when Rock and Metal ruled the world. So much more power and raw emotion in Rock/Metal.
Rock isn't dead... it's just that mass production of pop music since the late 90s took over, and so much media space has been filled with that kind of music. Somehow I think that the Politics killed their media space, since rock is rebellious kind of music. Anyways, great video and greetings from Belgrade, Serbia!
I love your work. Gonna watch this next weekend.
This is great, particularly the Steve Albini interview.
Subscribed
Great documentary! I enjoyed the Jack Endino segments the most, thank you.
You're very welcome Bobby! Have you subscribed? I'll be posting a lot more
Thanks! Excellent documentary! The interviews are fascinating.
Thank you parkview
I have to say this is very well done. The important questions are asked and addressed about the current state of music Vs traditional way of music.
Just watched this. Well done! Was great to hear the opinions. Lives such a bittersweet nostalgic aftertaste.
Great selection of people who were interviewed
Thanks C N
When I was young you'd buy a album, and usually because a certain song on the album touched something inside you,,, and you would get 10 or more songs to get into! And sometimes the song you bought the album for isn't even your favorite song anymore,,, because theres so much great music! Anyways that was the great thing about buying albums back in the day!
That's actually one of the reasons Popular Music is in such a shithole today... iTunes. Like you said, time was, if you wanted one song on an album, fuck you, buy the whole thing. However, with the advent of iTunes, you can buy the songs individually. So when it comes to artists like Beyonce or Rihanna, where they would have sold a million records for $10 each (Just to keep all the math easy), then that would be $10,000,000 generated for that album... whereas 1,000,000 x $1.29 doesn't really have the same appeal.
So they had to start working on ways to make albums with the entire track listing made of songs which would be "releases" so that people would buy the whole albums again. Where in their desperation, they reached out to an entity they didn't fully understand. Technology. Basically, there are certain earmarks that apply to most of the music in the past, like that 91% of ·1 songs are within 5 seconds of being 3:30 long, or that 93% of ·1 songs enter into the chorus within 30 seconds of the song opening, things like this.
So Labels algorithmized these things. Where they get songwriter submissions for their artists (Notice that we're back to the whole "Artists don't write their own songs" thing, again?) and they submit these songs to those algorithms and if it doesn't come up high enough, then "Hard pass."
Case in point, Sia, who writes a lot of songs for other people, was in a position to negotiate her work after the success of Chandelier and came out with an album of songs she was really passionate about but got the hard pass from the labels of Katy Perry, Shakira, Rihanna, Beyonce, Adele, etc, due to this algorithm. Not surprisingly, none of the songs ever really went anywhere.
The problem, however, is that we've been subjected to the results of this item for the better part of a decade, if not longer... but it's only based on songs from the past which were already hits, which is why everything sounds so homogenous and "The same." Where songs like this generation's Bohemian Rhapsody/Thriller/November Rain have already been written and hell, probably even recorded... but nobody will ever hear it, due to not fitting said parameters. Which quite honestly breaks my heart.
@@AnthonySforza My favorite alternative to purchasing an entire album in the 90s was to instead buy the cassette or CD singles of just the songs i liked. As a kid I couldn't always afford full albums so singles that cost about $3.50 on cassette and under $10 on Cd were a Godsend. I remember leaving the music store with 10 new cassette singles of my favorite songs and it would come out to just under $20 which beat buying one entire album that was more expensive and possibly would only have one or two good songs. At least it was still supporting the artists and chances were if i really liked the band I'd eventually save and get the full album anyway. It seems not too many people remember that besides recording songs off the radio or recording it from someone who did have the albums there was a great way to avoid paying for the full album by buying the singles. The best part was some of them would include rare B sides that only were available on single and not found on albums
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Haha, cassingles... Oh no, I most definitely remember those. I recall being at the store and having like $5, where I'd ever so shiftingly lift the price tag with the bar code off a CD single which was $3.99, then ever so detailingly, place it over the price tag of a full album. Then walk out with that album for $4. Which always worked, until I tried it with a double album and they scanned the barcode on the album itself, which popped up at like $26,99. Which then weirded the cashier out because the album's tag read $3.99. Yea, I dug too deep and got too greedy on that one.
That said, I actually did like buying the singles, even if I had the full album, as there were things like instrumental versions of the song, or remixes... Or like you said, rare B-sides. Though I think it was like the late 90s when they were phasing those out, like I recall seeing R. Kelly in an interview where he was talking about how he's no longer selling singles and if someone wanted his music, they'd have to buy the album. Then other artists followed suit. Where life must have seemed great... Until iTunes came along. I even recall artists like Kid Rock and I want to say Motley Crue, but I'm probably wrong, resisting the selling of their music on iTunes for that very reason, that people can just buy the songs they want. Where someone like Nikki Sixx was quoted as saying "We put a lot of work into every song on our albums, it'd be nice if people actually bought them."
@@AnthonySforza Lol I admit being guilty of switching prices too or worse if I had zero money just slipping the plastic completely off the cd itself and just walking out with it. Not my proudest moments but I'll blame it on being young and dumb lol. Yeah I remember when the singles started phasing out. It started earlier with a lot of rock bands i noticed. For example i remember 90 percent of the singles being rap, dance and pop music. If I wanted a rock/punk or grunge song on single it was much harder to find especially towards the mid to late 90s. I remember trying to find the cassingles off of Green days "Dookie" album and the only thing available was a CD single import from Germany of Longview which cost more than the usual cd singles but came with a nifty green day logo sticker and some bonus tracks i had never heard prior I still have the sticker to this day lol. So in a way I preferred the rock imports and thankfully held on to those unlike the cassingles which are long lost. Definitely miss that era of music when a new album was announced it was exciting. I still buy albums on cd to this day but mostly albums I already owned as a teen or from a band i overlooked in the 90s and am just now discovering and getting into. Can't say the same for modern rock. A few good songs but not the same excitement as before. Maybe its just that I'm older though (sigh)
WHEN I WAS YOUNG I WORE DIAPERS AND WAS ALLOWED TO PISS AND DEFECATE MYSELF AT WILL, SOMETIMES TEN PER DAY. NO ONE EVER GOT MAD NOR DID SOCIETY SHAME ME INTO CHANGING. TIMMY SWIFTYBOATMAN YOU DON'T WANT SOMEONE WITH MONEY, LIKE ME, TO PAY ONE OF THOSE ONLINE BACKGROUND CHECKERS TO REVEAL TO ALL YOUR BAD HABITS YOU THOUGHT WERE DEAD AND GONE??
Excellent fuckin documentary. Loved it. Thanks for taking the time to make it. I would've loved to been able to talk to even a few of those guys for even one minute.
Great documentary. Bitter sweet feelings as I watch this as an aspiring rock musician.
well, Steve Albini seems to be not only a great producer, but a very aware and smart person.
Well made documentary, pretty interesting, thanks for posting
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@MorbidManMusic sure, if you say so.. Have a nice day too.
I don't think popularity and records sales(at least in this day and age) should be an indication of how good or bad a band is. Some of the best musicians in the world play jazz and most people probably never heard of them and they are most likely not crazy rich or sell millions of records. If you look hard enough you can find rock bands everywhere just don't start with the radio or TV.
I agree with you that popularity doesn't determine quality, but I also think that a lot of people are obsessed with the idea of being super popular now. Always thats how it's been but now more than before I think. There are a lot of good underground bands now though. Any recommendations?
I think alot of it has to do with image also,how many times have you seen that black and white photo of Kurt Cobain looking up.Also how many times have you seen an image of David Bowie on a t shirt because it's fashionable.
Well, you're kinda proving the point, Scott C. You didn't used to have to "look hard enough" for rock music. It was at the center of our shared culture. When people say "rock is dead," that's what they mean. Of course you can find good bands if you "look around." You can find harpsichords if you "look around." But if you have to "look around," it's not a living piece of our culture.
This is fantastic Daniel!
👏👏👏👏
Really enjoyed this. Great video
Great job, Daniel! This is great.
Thanks C.W.
I have never got a virus, used the internet to download for nearly 20 years, and then buy the music from the bands I want to support, same as when a kid I used to record with tape cassette from the radio until I could afford the real copy. simples, I do miss trawling round 2nd hand music shops though. I am in LOVE with music, and love music the same as I did if 40 years ago, every year more music to choose from, what is not to love. It has always taken me effort to find music I love, no different from 40 years ago, the way of finding it has just changed slightly.
This was well done !
Thank you 🤘😬🤘
Great work!, thanks documenting us!!
super documentary. great interviews, . Wow..good job all the way around, great questions, held my interest all the way through. you got the stuff , my man. ;-)
Thanks a lot akimmbo 👊🏼
@@DanielSarkissian My Pleasure, Hope you have the time and resources to keep on doing it. Because , we'll keep digging it. 👍
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