I was having a discussion about rock music and what's missing today. I said that what's missing is a sense of community. That's what made rock so big in the 60s and 70s. It was music and community. That's a powerful combination. It was it's own church, with its own hymns, it's own liturgy, and its own bible. That doesn't exist any more. Today there are people making music in their own little cocoons, for their own small fan bases, but no core or center to what they're doing. It is what we call the Balkanization of culture, where people are isolated from any type of society. They don't have any way to compare their music to anything else except what came before, and as a result, all the music sounds derivative from the 90s, rather than building something new or original.
So how did the rock revolution happen? It was a convergence of many things, but they all came together in southern California in 1965. There is a new documentary that examines what happened then called Echo In The Canyon. Here is the trailer:
https://youtu.be/QRVFBQHBUls
If you haven't seen this documentary, you should see it, and then figure out how to recreate this kind of artistic music community today. Then maybe the music will be better, and will become popular.
So how did the rock revolution happen? It was a convergence of many things, but they all came together in southern California in 1965. There is a new documentary that examines what happened then called Echo In The Canyon. Here is the trailer:
https://youtu.be/QRVFBQHBUls
If you haven't seen this documentary, you should see it, and then figure out how to recreate this kind of artistic music community today. Then maybe the music will be better, and will become popular.