ROCK IS DEAD

The time of really "quality" rock music is over: The era from the 60's to the 80's where brilliant and interesting people made brilliant and interesting albums. The music industry and the general dumbing-down of this plastic and hyper-materialistic culture has killed creativity and passion stone cold dead. I can't believe the crap people willingly listen to these days. It's like someone urinating in your ears. Vapid dribble would be a compliment. When the most popular rock band out there is frigging Fall Out Boy, it's time to stick a fork in it. The lack of originality out there is breathtaking. Everyone is a pale memory of a weak replica of a poor imitation of a half-baked clone. The era of idiosyncratic artists on a mission to change the world has passed into history...and now all that is left is pap, illiterate Rap/Hip-Hop, cartoon darkness, fake sensitivity, sophomoric lyrics, banal sensationalism, and tepid retreads of far better music created by far better musicians. And that means that MY time is over, because I refuse to make crap music for a crap audience. I'd rather take a bullet. As it stands, the people who used to listen to good music are all well past the age where they have stopped seeking out new artists and new music, and the younger people (Generation "Whine") wouldn't know a decent song if it crawled up their asses and laid eggs. Let them eat Beyonce.
*excerpts from http://johnludi.com/