Classic Rock is being disgraced...

I'm the exact opposite. I've been playing (and I use the term in the loosest possible sense) for a relatively long time. I generally find guitar solos to be boring and tired, and they are usually my least favorite part of any song. (ducks for cover)

That said, I absolutely despise edited anything; songs, books, movies, whatever.

Play it the way the artist intended or don't play it all.

 

It's not just radio It's all of society. This year the GRAMMY board eliminated Rock Instrumental, Pop Instrumental, and Country Instrumental categories.
I guess if something doesn't have someone singing over everything it's not considered music any more.

 

Meh, I got the CD. I can hear it anytime I want.

 

...you mean to tell me people still listen to radio?

 

I was tortured w/ Classic Rock Radio every day for 6 years at a job.

Such a bad station that every other day at 3:00 they'd play Riders On The Storm.

Same 100 songs on rotation and the commercials !

Haven't listened to radio in 14 years because of it...

 

They are down to about 20 songs regurgitated over and over....uuuuughghghhhh

 

David Byrne (Talking Heads): "Lyrics are a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they otherwise would." (approximate quote)

Instrumental breaks and extended intros make program directors fear that you'll change the channel. Can't sing along if there's no singing.

Listen to today's music, even rock. Intros are rarely longer than 10-15 seconds. Guitar solos, once required in most rock songs, are disappearing.

 

"Just because it's old doesn't make it classic. What sucked then still sucks."

...Matt Farrell, Live Free or Die Hard.

 

To me, classic rock is disgraced every time I hear a radio station play Slow Ride.

Jim

 

Amen brutha

 

The local station here did the same thing to the rests at the beginning of Journey's "Anytime."

 

Since I despise that song and never want to hear it again, I don't care. However, as an RnR fan in general, it's frustrating.

The worst I've ever heard was "Sultans of Swing". The cool repeating licks at the end ALWAYS get cut off on the local dung heap, but once in a while, they start their radio babble as soon as the final words of the last chorus are done.

However, they play the ENTIRE silent/ windy intro to Dio's "(I forget the name, but it's a big hit and has a dumb intro)". The local dung heap always plays it without babbling. I'll never understand...

The radio is beyond flawed, that's why I try to stick to CDs and cassettes (my car is from 1993...) as much as possible

 

Stop listening to radio. It has been and always been annoying to me from the 60's for that reason and not that reason alone. Find an alternative and they will go away or change. Mp3, ipod, XM, there are options.

 

Some good Tele content in that video. Is it me or does the Strat player look a bit lost just before the sax player takes his last solo?

And is that Strat white or shoreliine gold?

 

Radio is for Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me and Car Talk.
Otherwise, it's the iPod.
And even then, I download episodes onto the iPod.

Meh!

 

Yeah, 'classic rock radio' is pretty much the reason I don't listen to music radio any more. It's been frozen in time for about 35 years, and I was pretty much over it after the first 5. Move along, there's nothing to hear here...

 

+1 on " . . . wear a cup."

 

Radio is pretty darn bad these days; that's fer sure...

On a comparative basis, daytime, with my favorite DJ; Kitty Kinnin on Raliegh, NC's 100.7 ain't so bad. She's a sweetie...

Is anyone here familiar with the HD Radio channels? Is there any better programming to be had there?

 

I'm a bona fide radio junkie, especially AM talk-radio (provided it isn't liberal politics or sports. Can't handle either of those), but the FM radio where I live is pretty sad. Where we live, which is very mountainous and a little remote, we can only pull in four or five reliable stations. Of those one is a good hard rock station where the DJ's pick their own playlists. My wife hates it! She listens to a station that plays Top 40 and I swear every song is the same woman singing under assumed names. Two others are Top 40 Country which is just as bad and maybe even worse. Pass me the Black and Decker so I can drill out my ear drums!

The station we listen to by default is a Classic Rock format. It's default because it provides actual news and weather at the bottom of the hour, and since we no longer have TV it's our only decent source for local information. But the playlist... Yuck! The rotation is so predictable you can almost set your watch by which songs will play when.

The worst part, the owner/manager is a guy I graduated high school with. He's actually playing the music I grew up with, but he's playing it to death!

Justin

 

They always cut the solo off "Goodbye Stranger"...the only good part of the song. I've given up on "classic rock" a long time ago.