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Old 04-16-2009, 10:33 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I think as rock continues to fade from dominance over the popular musical landscape it's going to split into two distinct camps. One will be backward looking, traditionalist styles of rock and the other will be very experimental and avant-garde. Neither camp will be big the way rock used to be but the traditionalists will have hit songs from time to time. I'm basing this on what has happened with jazz over the years, because to me rock seems to be following a very similar evolutionary path.
Very interesting, I never really thought of it like that before, but it makes sense.

I think we're already seeing this trend come into fruition with the increase of indie-garage sounding bands, which I think are the "traditional" garage bands of the '60s.
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