depressed news

i read an article a few days ago about the death of rock&roll, full-stop, the author scoured the data of downloads & views on a host of platforms like spotify & youtube

bands, the primary vehicles of rock&roll, are nowhere near the top of popularity, indeed rock&roll bands don't even list on these analytics, esp. among the primary usual audience of young listeners that were once the driving force, & the market, for rock&roll

rock&roll from its very start shook the heavens & rattled up ol' itch himself, scaring parents & frightening authority, if you recall TV broadcasts in the 1950s would not show elvis 'the pelvis' presley from the waist down because his massive charismatic sexiness was corrupting the youth

eh, it had a good run of 70-80 years

now i must throw out my social d, black flag, circle jerks records cuz who needs punk in an age without rock&roll, perhaps i need to write an email to my local classic rock station too informing the station managers that their format is dead

oh man & goddamn if i wanna hear loud crunchy guitars & see a band perform live at the first intensity when players & audience share the same organic vibes

rock&roll is dead, at least as a Top 40 market

but then hell, i mentioned a few punk bands, punk was pupped out of frustration & anger of a society gone sideways & those bands that i limned a moment ago released their first records on tiny DIY labels & played to audiences of 50 or more fellow punks, the DNA of punk is anti-commercial

perhaps rock&roll is dead, for right now, after all, the numbers do not lie, but what do i know, i'm an old geezer of punk & rock&roll & will love the music until my last breath

ABSOLUTE MUSIC

& just as neil young commanded, keep on rockin' the free world!