What happened to THIS kind of music...?

[Allen in San Jose]

Ok, the thread title isn't completely serious...but it's been a while since there have been mainstream rock bands who play like that. Just listen to that guitar intro by Dann Huff! He's ripping it up! Great voice, too!

[A-Bone]

Have you watched the videos on YT from Huff's instructional studio release?

[PVH5150]

I was rockin out in the car this morning to this song.

God, how I love my Sirius satellite radio (especially Hair Nation & Boneyard)

[twoheadedboy]

What happened? Grunge. It's a bit of a shame, though, because the shift toward grunge and alternative rock prevented some really great and interesting bands (not Giant, IMO) from finding an audience.

[drewl]

Look at meeeee.....i gots lotsa' distortion, a whammy bar and CHEESY KEYBOARDS.
And then it got really ghey.

Wow, that was bad.

But hey, I like alot of stupid stuff too.

[esoteric pete]

Originally Posted by drewl

Look at meeeee.....i gots lotsa' distortion, a whammy bar and CHEESY KEYBOARDS.
And then it got really ghey.

Wow, that was bad.

But hey, I like alot of stupid stuff too.

sorry.

[taez555]

Originally Posted by A-Bone

Have you watched the videos on YT from Huff's instructional studio release?

That's actually pretty cool. Maybe it's cheesy 80's, but it almost feels like a lost art. Especially from a songwriter/producer perspective.

[PeaElAre]

Is that Wayne Campbell standing on the right in the intro of that tutorial?

[GtrWiz]

They call it country now

[harpinon]

The music was done to death back in the day, but a great singer never gets old.

[lpfella]

Good tone reentered the vocabulary of mainstream musicians/guitar players? I keed, I keed

As for those who say grunge..... I have to disagree. Mostly it was the marketing sensibilities of record companies and the strong emergence of indie labels that allowed for agitated guitar rock anthems to reach every household in the country.

Could have been any type of music that they considered to be what youth wanted, but unfortunately several bands were given the crappy label of grunge. Alt rock had been happening way before they started terming a type of music....grunge.

[cruisemates]

In my view this was the last of corporate rock (like Boston, Foghat, etc) from the 70s. I think it sounds great - the musicianship is there, the guitar & vocals. I am sorry it ever went away.

What came next was the beginning of different shools of pop music from the late 70s to early 80s: starting with disco and punk, techno, heavy metal, indie-pop and then later (late 80s early 90s) grunge.

"Rock Radio" was taken over by "punk-styled" commercial bands who were the opposite of cororate rock, and adopted the "punk" moniker although they were not really punk at all. These were bands like: B-52s, Talking Heads and Devo.

The main thing that happened was the fracturing of one mainstream "rock music" (especially on radio) that had held up through the 70s, but changed when FM radio stations starting adopting different musical formats.

What I saw was cities like Los Angeles being dominated by KROQ, with its techno sound, while college radio went a completely different direction, leaning towards indie rock, while some stations held onto to corporate rock for as long as they could with Boston, Van Halen and starting to add lots of oldies to the mix as well, especially Led Zepplin whose '70s record remained one of the most played bands on radio through the 80s.

Disco: Average White Band, Donna Summers, KC & the Sunshine Band

Punk: Black Flag, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Meat Puppets, Clash

Techno: Missing People, Berlin, The Waitresses

Heavy Metal: Metallica, Poison, Motley Crue

Indie: Camper Van Beethoven, The Smithereens, REM, the Cure

[drewl]

Poison metal?
Soundgarden is more "metal" than poison, but I get what you mean with the BS record company labels.

Most "grunge" sounds like early 70's rock.

[2guests]

Originally Posted by GtrWiz

They call it country now