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Originally Posted by blastingas10
No i wasnt there but luckily I can still listen to the music. Im sure there are, but Traditional music isnt as strong as it use to be. Musicians were walking down the same traditional path for a while until the revolutionaries of the late 50s and 60s came along. It was those people who broke that traditional boundary and set off a creative revolution who really opened up that artistic freedom for music ever since. How can anyone deny that artists like The Velvet Underground, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Led Zeppelin, just to name a few, didnt change things? They certainly did, and their music remains very unique and creative to this day. They continue to inspire and they always will. I dont think many bands will ever be able to match the influence that bands like that had on music.
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But what defines traditional music? It could mean music going back hundreds of years. Would jazz and blues musicians not have broke a traditional boundaries as well and set off a creative revolution in the early part of the 20th century? Musicians are always trying to break "traditional" music and create something new and different no matter what decade.
I certainly respect the likes of The Velvet Underground and The Beatles for what they've contributed to music but there's been plenty of other bands throughout the past few decades which have had a profound impact by doing something different. A lot of these bands don't get recognition until after they've split up, as was the case with The Velvet Underground, and I'm sure there are some bands today that will be seen as revolutionary in 20, 30, 40 years time but it's impossible to compare them to 60's bands at the moment because they have not yet been filtered by time.