ProgRocker53 wrote:I'm a part of "THIS" generation, and I was SO STARVED for good music several years ago, that I discovered Journey.
I know exactly what you mean. I was getting sick of the current/Top 40 music about 5 years ago and I started digging into my parents CD catalog.
ProgRocker53 wrote:I was so starved for good music, a year later, I discovered MelodicRock.com. From there I purchased albums by JSS, Talisman, Hardline, Tyketto, Tall Stories, Bad English, Toto, Winger, Seventh Key, Harem Scarem, and many more. Keep in mind at this point, I'm a senior in high school, and everyone else around me is listening to My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy.
STYX was actually the first classic rock band I got into and I just fell in love with the music. I started listening to the local classic rock station and digging into all the bands back catalogs.
I like a few current bands as displayed in my signature but I hate bands like My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and all those other poser bands that won't be relevant in a few years. The bands in my current list have longevity and they have been in the business for years and that is why I still follow them.
ProgRocker53 wrote:I'm so starved for good music, I'm following up on these initial discoveries to this day, delving through these great bands' back catalogues.
It really is fun doing that, huh? For all the bands in my classic rock list I have gone through every record they’ve ever released and picked my favorites from each. I have about 250 GB of classic rock music and I still have a long way to go.
ProgRocker53 wrote:Point is, if kids these days are actually wanting good music, they'll go out and find it like I did. Not all kids will go the same route I did, they may look into various indie and prog and metal styles, but it's still better than the shit being force-fed in the mass media.
The majority of the kids our age are just going to continue listening to the current songs on alternative rock or Top 40 pop radio stations thinking that those bands are good. Classic rock music seems to be gaining more popularity with our generation but it still has a long way to go. I hate when someone is wearing a Beatles or Led Zeppelin T-shirt and I start talking to them about the band and they know little to nothing about them. I want them to really be into the music not just wearing the stuff because it is “cool” at the moment.
ProgRocker53 wrote:We DON'T need a re-recorded hit package to coerce the younger generation into buying Journey. I know enough people that aren't even into Melodic/Classic rock, that own the Journey Greatest Hits or at least buy some of the hits off iTunes. The original GH still holds strong today, there's a reason it's moved 14 million units.
Exactly. I guess I really didn’t have a problem with REO rerecording Hi-Infidelity because it had the original lead singer but this rerecording the Journey hits without Steve Perry is a bad idea. They should just do a new CD/new DVD package and leave the rerecorded greatest hits out of it.
ProgRocker53 wrote:Oh yeah, at every Journey concert I've been to, I've brought three friends within two years of age of me, and we ran into a bunch of people our age and partied hardy with them. There ARE a lot of young Journey fans out there, and they DON'T need re-recorded GH.
There are more and more kids our age going to classic rock shows. I see them because I am at almost every one that comes to Houston. While most of them only know the greatest hits, it is at least a start.
