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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5192054, member: 175"] I have always kind of felt like the 90s was rock’s last stand. What we consider “classic rock” practically ended on Dec. 31, 1979. Between 1979-1981: John Lennon died, John Bonham died, Keith Moon died (The Who hung on for a little bit, with some meh stuff), Pink Floyd broke up, The Eagles broke up, Fleetwood Mac broke up, Queen had a disco hit. Tattoo You came out in 1981 and was probably the last Stones last hold on the mainstream. David Bowie shifted to glam rock (although he gave us SRV, who was one of the 80s standouts for classic rock style music), Eric Clapton shifted to soft adult contemporary produced by Phil Collins, the biggest Van Halen hit had EVH playing the synth and not the guitar, Sting joined Club Schmaltz with Bryan Adams. The grunge movement has been oft mentioned as ending the hair band era, but a few 80s rock bands like U2, REM, Van Hagar and Metallica had big hits in early 90s simultaneously, and coupled with the grunge movement, the entire alt rock genre took off. Random rock bands like Blues Traveler were regulars in the MTV rotation. There were alt rock stations. MTV Unplugged was huge with Clapton going back to his roots, with Dylan and Bruce and Neil Young getting a platform, as well as Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Alice In Chains. Aerosmith kept their newfound popularity going. The annoying omnipresent stuff you couldn’t get away from, other than Mariah Carey, were often rock acts like Hootie and the Blowfish and Alanis Morrissette (and later Matchbox 20, Creed and Nickelback, alongside the boy band revival). But that era came and went fast. Lots of alt rock bands had short lived success with hit songs and vanished (Third Eye Blind, Toadies, Eve 6, Fastball, Semisonic, etc.). Linkin Park sort of had their hybrid sound at the turn of the century - and a couple others Evanescence, Killers, Kings of Leon - had moments, but then by the mid 2000s, you weren’t hearing many guitars on the charts any more. (There were some good rock acts in the 1980s - but it was less blues rock that was the signature of earlier decades and more Cure, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, etc.). [/QUOTE]

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