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Message: [QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 2807999, member: 2500"] I am an old man (62) and tend to agree as I noted a few posts ago. There's some good new stuff, but it's often not guitar based, or if it is, it's minimalist. And for me, the bands I like most of the new crop are sometimes female led - e.g. St. Vincent, Geowulf. And then there are bands that summon up visions of the past - if the lead singer of Greta Van Fleet is a Robert Plant wannabe, then the Titus Andronicus singer is a Paul Westerberg wannabe. Probably not a style most old white guys would appreciate, but a local (Pittsburgh) guy I follow and really enjoy is Byron Nash. He's been involved in a lot of genre-bending projects, most notably Formula 412. [MEDIA=youtube]dcUGcBFeU_g[/MEDIA] Nash has since moved onto [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JujwsL3QCoo']more conventional guitar-based formats[/URL]. Extremely talented guy, but music biz being what it is today, might never get past being a regional draw. But we're not actually wrong when we old guys state that today's music sucks compared to what we grew up with. Science agrees! [URL='https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/is-pop-music-evolving-or-is-it-just-getting-louder/']Is Pop Music Evolving, or Is It Just Getting Louder?[/URL] [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-shazam-effect/382237/']The Dark Science of Pop Music[/URL] [URL]https://nypost.com/2015/10/04/your-favorite-song-on-the-radio-was-probably-written-by-these-two/[/URL] On a side note, I love a lot the late 60s-early 70s stuff (not so much the arena rock & hair bands that came after) but I wouldn't go pay to see any of them in their 60s or 70s. I got ripped by dozens of BYers for saying that a few months ago, but I'm just not paying top dollar for what are basically oldies acts where the lead singer is no longer in top form even if some of the players may have gotten a bit smoother with age. I don't want to bother having that argument again. Only exception to that rule is Gilmour, who's still putting out relevant stuff at 70+, and even he's sounding froggy these days, so if it's something familiar, yet new that your old ears desire, try a listen to "[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattle_That_Lock']Rattle That Lock[/URL]". [/QUOTE]

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