I'm really sad I never got to see the white stripes, also. Just waiting for the day that I see Jack out somewhere downtown. that'll freak me out.
I was going to get tickets to see him on his solo tour but they were sold out a few days after they went on sale.

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an ambitious thread kudo's for that. for my part I can say that I worked security '77 to '79 at The Time Machine Discotheque just outside Chicago who's claim to fame was the largest dance floor in Chicagoland. There were actually two dance floors, the largest on the first floor and a smaller more intimate one upstairs in the VIP bar overlooking the main floor, the DJ booth was up there as well. Capacity was 900 people and we regularly packed over 1000 people in on wednesday thursday friday and saturday. On saturday mornings we would deposit the weeks cash at the bank, usually 6 or 7 large cardboard boxes of the green stuff. Amazing amounts of cash, that bank loved us. I got off track there. I saw Uriah Heep at the Oxford New Theater in fall of '74. Y'all remember them don't you? An important part of the big four, Black Sabbath Deep Purple Led Zeppelin and Uriah Heep, rock history wouldn't be quite the same without them and their classic drunkeness
anyone else see them live back in the day?

ps: didn't mean to hijack the thread its too hard to think of the correct answer right at the moment, lol

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

SK, re: your last two answers, LOL, while I appreciate your love of the Beatles and other classic guitar-based music, and we at the Fender forum prefer your outlook to a typical kid today who listens only to Nikki Minaj and Pitbull, I want to help you.

You have a lot of years left to live and enjoy music, and you can't let your love of music stop in 1972. There has been a literal TON (or a million tons) of good guitar-based music released in the 1990s (and 1980s) and, yes, the 2000s. Everything ranging from poppier Beatles type sound to punk, grunge, hard rock, metal, blues, straight ahead rock, new folk rock with 20 would-be hippies on stage revival type stuff, acousticy stuff, indie, and everything in between. So much that I won't even attempt to list examples here. Everyone could list dozens or hundreds of examples.

Even much much more than just the bands everyone has now heard of like Jack White and the Black Keys, although they are good enough examples. Just a ton of good music!!! In my opinion, it is cliche to say "rock is dead." People are always saying that. That is a totally incorrect cliché. There is as much or more good rock music being released as ever. Seems to be accelerating, now that technology means people can do their thing without needing Columbia Records’ approval. Go on Pandora and create a channel based on a few songs you like. I'll bet that you'll be surprised at how much new stuff you'll discover, and some of it you can really get into.

Or even iTunes. This thread is not the place to debate digital versus analog sound quality and lament the demise of CDs and/or the hipster return to vinyl (one record costs $29!!!. F that…there is too much I want to buy…I like my albums for $9.99 on iTunes…sounds great in my $299 headphones) and all that, but on iTunes, find one band you like and then check out "you might also like" and then check out "you might also like" those bands and so on and so forth. Some of them, they're not lying...you might actually like it!! This has really replaced the "recent old days" of my youth, when we had Columbia House and BMG music clubs, where's we'd get 16 CDs for one penny to start an account, and then you supposedly had to buy 10 more CDs at full price in the next 4 years, but you didn't really have to, and people would create like 8 accounts and get about 130 CDs for $0.08 (8 cents), and that's how we built our music collections. This is in the early 1990s timeframe. Have you heard of this? Does it still exist?

And we would actually read the catalogues we'd get every month and sometimes try out random stuff that was "similar" to stuff we already knew about.

FM radio and MTV are "dead" as far as being the only options for people to decide what to listen to, but "rock" is most certainly not dead.

I won’t even mention http://www.bandcamp.com. I have actually found stuff on there (through youtube) and bought “homemade” music by people who have put their stuff there.

If you’re telling me you can’t think of a single band you’d like to see from the 1990s and 2000s and you’re serious and not just trying to display your “keepin’ it real” I-like-classic-rock street cred, as I suspect, then I sort of feel sorry for you. Jack White covered a Beatles song on his very first album and I think has included a Beatles song on almost all of his albums. He pays respect to the oldies going way back to Charlie Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson. Certainly he’s worth seeing at a free concert in a magic time machine? Dude gets up there and plays his azz off.

As I posted in another thread today, taking my own advice, I just discovered this Tyler Bryant dude. Totally rockin’. He might not be your thing, but there has to be some music since 1990 that you can get into.

@ Her Wanna...

C'mon... don't even go there man...

You don't start a thread asking people's opinions and then try and take them to school, or bash them over the head with their opinions !

This was shaping up to be a really interesting thread, but you're gonna stifle people from contributing with that.

People like what they like, that's what's great about Musical diversity.

I'm certainly not gonna tell people what they should be listening to.

Peace

cheers!

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My bad. I totally agree with you. In this case I seriously was trying to help the kid and/or perhaps bring back some happy memories for us older folks about BMG and Columbia house "16 CDs for one penny" and/or a discussion about "rock is dead" that we all hear all the time. All I'm saying is that plenty of good ROCK music has come out from 1990-2013 and keeps coming out every week and I don't think rock is dead. I'm not telling him what to listen to. Just saying there has to be something worth going to a concert in 1990s and 2002. peace : )

Sweet. None of my business, but cool choices. If my prior comment sounded snippy, I didn't mean it to be that way. I just like to start discussions, in this case we should have a thread about the cliche that "rock is dead."

MY PERSONAL OPINION is that rock is NOT dead and that's a cliche and plenty of good rock music is coming out all the time, and not only that, if you like indie type stuff, perhaps more than ever.

The same digital revolution that is complained about as it relates to some subjects (like how brick-and-mortar music stores that sell CDs can’t survive), is good in some ways. Any band can record and put out its own stuff. Always could but now it's even easier. And if they are actually good, they might actually someday make a living from being musicians. But we don’t even have to talk about punk/indie “underground” stuff. Even the big labels are putting out a lot of rock music.

I repeat my opinion that FM RADIO AND MTV are “dead” as far as being the only game in town that tells people what to listen to. Now we have the internet, Pandora, youtube, this forum and other forums, etc. We are getting closer to a world of “perfect information” that the free market presumes.

Good ol’ corporate iTunes. I like it. I gladly pay $9.99 to $11.99 for full albums that in the 90s were $16.00 plus tax, which was like $40 in today’s dollars. I support the digital revolution while PAYING for my music. Not illegal downloads, but good old iTunes works for me. I get what I want and I also check out other stuff I might have read about in Spin.com or it’s a “similar result”.

Also sorry my posts are so long. I type fast.

@Her Wanna ...

Ain't no thing.. !

cheers!

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The Kid's ok! I agree with his choice of music over a lot of other's.

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