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Rock Music is Oil Age Music
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Rock Music is Oil Age Music
by PenultimateManStanding » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 19:36:05
Internal Combustion Engine is Rock and Roll. Jimi Hendrix, Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, the driving beat is conditioned by the roar of the internal combustion engine. Sort of Marxist, I guess, but I think its the truth.
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Re: Rock Music is Oil Age Music
by johnmarkos » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 19:44:01
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Re: Rock Music is Oil Age Music
by PenultimateManStanding » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 19:47:26
I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here
Magic carpet, yes that's the automobile.
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here
Magic carpet, yes that's the automobile.
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Re: Rock Music is Oil Age Music
by Bedevere » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 19:58:20
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')ock Music is Oil Age Music
You're telling me. Here's the lyrics to one that is on the radio right now: B.Y.O.B.
I'll be damned if it's not about the war in Iraq.
Il faut d'abord durer.
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Re: Rock Music is Oil Age Music
by SupplyConcerns » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 20:03:10
I write the songs for my rock band from a decidedly Peak Oil-aware perspective. Just as everything we associate with modern life won't disappear overnight, neither will rock music. Rock music ought to be at its peak now, for that matter. Well, that's the approach of my band :]
I've also written a folk album that takes place during the oil crash. It should be completed and released in the coming months. Two of the songs are up online right now:
www.myspace.com/grantvaldeshuling
I've also written a folk album that takes place during the oil crash. It should be completed and released in the coming months. Two of the songs are up online right now:
www.myspace.com/grantvaldeshuling
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Re: Rock Music is Oil Age Music
by Tyler_JC » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 20:06:34
My music teacher told me this in 7th grade, but used different words.
Classical music is beautiful because it can be produced without electronic devices of any kind. Opera is pretty because the singers do not need microphones. They can simply belt out the lyrics and be heard.
Rock and Roll requires a microphone or else it dies. You can't understand the singers or even hear them under the banging drums and screeching guitars. The electric guitar requires less talent than the acoustic. Computers make Ashleigh Simpson sound pretty. Sarah Brightman sounds pretty regardless.
The future isn't big expensive electric music in 50,000 seater concerts. It's a girl with a guitar under an oak tree singing the peak oil blues to a group of farmers on their lunch break...fades into an ecotopian dream world...
*snaps back harshly*
Classical music is beautiful because it can be produced without electronic devices of any kind. Opera is pretty because the singers do not need microphones. They can simply belt out the lyrics and be heard.
Rock and Roll requires a microphone or else it dies. You can't understand the singers or even hear them under the banging drums and screeching guitars. The electric guitar requires less talent than the acoustic. Computers make Ashleigh Simpson sound pretty. Sarah Brightman sounds pretty regardless.
The future isn't big expensive electric music in 50,000 seater concerts. It's a girl with a guitar under an oak tree singing the peak oil blues to a group of farmers on their lunch break...fades into an ecotopian dream world...
*snaps back harshly*
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Re: Rock Music is Oil Age Music
by PenultimateManStanding » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 20:08:37
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('johnmarkos', 'S')ay it ain't so!
I never really thought about it until one day when I was listening to music from the 20's and thought, 'damn if this doesn't sound like the music of people who drive model T Fords!'-
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Re: Rock Music is Oil Age Music
by Tyler_JC » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 20:09:48
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SupplyConcerns', 'I') write the songs for my rock band from a decidedly Peak Oil-aware perspective. Just as everything we associate with modern life won't disappear overnight, neither will rock music. Rock music ought to be at its peak now, for that matter. Well, that's the approach of my band :]
I've also written a folk album that takes place during the oil crash. It should be completed and released in the coming months. Two of the songs are up online right now:
www.myspace.com/grantvaldeshuling
I've also written a folk album that takes place during the oil crash. It should be completed and released in the coming months. Two of the songs are up online right now:
www.myspace.com/grantvaldeshuling
www.myspace.com/tylerthepeakoiler
I'm adding you as a friend.
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Re: Rock Music is Oil Age Music
by ubercynicmeister » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 20:38:16
Yup, Peak Oil will mean the "Rock & Roll" (especially Heavy metal) will (thankfully) disappear forever.
No Power = No rock & roll.
No Power = No rock & roll.
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Re: Rock Music is Oil Age Music
by Omnitir » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 21:54:31
I agree that Rock music was born of the oil age, but that does not mean it cannot continue post PO. There will always be electricity! We aren’t going back to the Stone Age, just an era of sustainability. And rock doesn’t need to be played through massive amplifiers. It can be created on a computer using small amounts of power. Electric guitar can be played through personal digital processors that use as much power as an mp3 player. It can even be played unplugged (shock horror!).
Sorry country lovers, but rock music will be around for a long time yet. But that doesn’t mean you have to listen to it.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', '
')The electric guitar requires less talent than the acoustic.
Sorry country lovers, but rock music will be around for a long time yet. But that doesn’t mean you have to listen to it.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', '
')The electric guitar requires less talent than the acoustic.
That is absolutely incorrect. With the exception of Curt Cobain power cords, most rock guitarists are as talented as trained classical musicians. Guitarists capable of playing complex guitar solo’s need a thorough understanding of scales and modes, not just basic chord progressions like an acoustic guitarist. For example, after my first guitar lesson I could play complete songs on an acoustic with simple chord progressions, while it took several years of lessons and hard practice to be able to solo on the electric at a performance level.
And another point: rock music isn’t about distortion. There are plenty of rock songs that can be performed by a solo acoustic guitarist.
All forms of electronic music will continue after the oil crash. They may not be performed the same way as they were (stadium concerts etc), but they are loved by too many people for them to simply dissapear.
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