The electric guitar in the rock’n’roll format has run its course and has nowhere else to go
The only way rock can stop retreading is by broadening the definition of the word and in that case it isn’t rock anymore.
Chuck Berry - Birth (simple riffs)
Jimi Hendrix - Prime of Life (complexity)
Sonic Youth - Death (dissonance)
Everything is some variation on that and has to be because of the structure and accepted parameters of the genre.
All genres and periods run their course and dry up.
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