You're right, Phil. There are some good bands out there. We like this Canadian one (The Birthday Massacre): Very heavy but it shows that the music industry has green shoots of recovery.
May take my two teenagers to see them on their UK tour as my daughter in particular is enjoying grunge and related fashion accoutrements.
. That I like. Thought it was going to be Rammstein at first. Maybe I'll download on to a USB and put it on my biggest sound system, to frighten the neighbours. lol My half-Filipino son in the UK has played lead guitar in various bands for a few years now.
10 Famous Filipino Bands You Need on Your Playlist https://www.newportworldresorts.com...s one of the,drums and percussion) as members.
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I like this guy's videos he does some very honest stuff and he's spot on saying people like him, the music coy's and modern technology have killed the band - Garage Band on the phone - unbelievable power. Everything is so polished now - will future generations look at the Get Back documentary and wonder what might have been or just say yeah - that's why most of us do it ourselves Perhaps the fact that everything is so polished now will lead future generations back to wanting the live thing again one day or is this "progress"
I was in the Hard Rock Cafe in Glorietta up in Makati some years ago with Ana on a night out and this chap walked in and was sitting two tables away from us. And yes he is the father of Pinoy Rock. edit: Glorietta 3 was the mall I couldn't remember which one it was. There's another Hard Rock Cafe in the complex attached to the Conrad hotel down at the side of Mall of Asia, we've been in that one too, Rachael (my niece) took us out for a treat last summer the night before she went back to China, that was also probably the night she gave me COVID as we were sitting together on the same side of the table.
Music is constantly evolving, and you can hear samples of songs all over the place. Take The Clash as an example - has been sampled many times over. Straight to Hell is the basis for Paper Planes by MIA. Car Jamming - Live Forever by Oasis. Clash City Rockers - Elastica's Annie. Then we have Toni Basil's Mickey - that has been sampled to death - Taylor's Shake it Off, Rose & Bruno Mars's APT, etc. All this sampling introduces people to the original material, and so the demand for The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Clash, etc will always be there. All that glorious music history is being preserved for generations to come. Long may it continue. I'm at an age where I'm discovering music from the 70's - so Led Zepp, Supertramp, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young. Having said that, as a retired radio presenter, sometimes all this sampling gets repetitive and boring. The 90's for me was the best era for music - Oasis, Blur, Smashing Pumpkins, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Sleeper, Garbage, Charlatans, etc. The Naughties were good too - The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, The Fratellies, Franz Ferdinand. I find a lot of music released in the last 10 years insufferable. I must be getting old, I remember the days when all 20 of us lived in middle of t'road and we worked 25 hours down pit, and when we got 'ome our father would thrash us to sleep. But we were happy.
My 14 y.o. is frequently on her guitars so there's hope in our family. It is so heart-warming to hear her getting better month-by-month
I'm a "child of the 70's" Rob and, in my opinion, that decade (and the 60's also) produced so much good music that still sounds excellent today. My daughter connects her phone via bluetooth to the car stereo and it's great to hear some good sounds from her generation (I don't allow her to play rap Sh^%$t which has too many swear words and misogynistic lyrics ). This track has gradually become a favourite, even though it drives my 13 y.o. son to distraction:
