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Post by AeroCooper on Nov 5, 2014 10:41:04 GMT -5
Perry: Rock’s not dead - but it’s end of an eraNews / Martin Kielty / 05 Nov 2014 Classic Rock Roll Of Honour winner Joe weighs in on friend Gene Simmons’ claim Joe Perry has responded to friend Gene Simmons' claim that rock is dead with a two-way answer. The Aerosmith guitarist, who last night won the Maestro Award at the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour in Los Angeles, doesn’t accept the Kiss star’s claim that the genre is finished – but says there’s a more general point to be made. Perry tells Larry King: “I think we’re seeing the end of an era, the whole MTV era when the record companies had so much power. It wasn’t unusual for somebody to put out a single, sell a couple of million and sell out arenas. That type of rock’n’roll was king. “The way people receive music has changed a lot of things,” he continues, saying he discovers more new music via TV than from any other medium. “But I don’t think the excitement of music, and the excitement fans feel at a live performance, has gone away.” And he suggests that he and many musicians like him may be the wrong people to ask for solutions. “I could never figure it out,” he admits. “There are guys who make a career out of trying to figure out what’s coming next. Just when you think everything’s divas, boy bands, hip-hop or whatever, suddenly someone puts out a rock ’n’ roll hit and rock ’n’ roll’s back.” He adds: “There’s always a chance for that to happen.” www.teamrock.com/news/2014-11-05/aerosmith-joe-perry-rock-not-dead-but-end-of-era
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Post by kakashisensei on Nov 5, 2014 10:58:22 GMT -5
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