{"id":4664,"date":"2014-10-03T04:50:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T04:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/10\/03\/gene-simmons-states-that-there-are-no-longer-any-bands-on-the-level-of-the-heyday-classic-rock\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T04:50:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T04:50:20","slug":"gene-simmons-states-that-there-are-no-longer-any-bands-on-the-level-of-the-heyday-classic-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/10\/03\/gene-simmons-states-that-there-are-no-longer-any-bands-on-the-level-of-the-heyday-classic-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons states that there are no longer any bands on the level of the heyday classic rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genesimmons.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/bio-gene.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kiss\u2019s Gene Simmons has repeated his claim that rock\u2019n\u2019roll  is \u201cdead\u201d, insisting that not one \u201ciconic\u201d act has emerged in the past  26 years.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old\u2019s latest remarks came as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=daNBM6a1g5M\">an interview with Kansas City Live TV<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigwise.com\/news\/94791\/kiss-gene-simmons-rock-n-roll-has-been-murdered\">via Gigwise<\/a>).  He blames file-sharers for \u201cmurdering\u201d rock music, arguing that there  are no longer any bands on the level of the heyday classic rock.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 1958 until 1988 \u2026 [you can] name hundreds and hundreds  of classic rock acts,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cI\u2019ve got Elvis Presley, the  Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin. On and on and  on. Even Motown. Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson. From 1988 until  today, [can you even] give me five? You can\u2019t name [them]. Iconic?  Nobody. How about that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer Joel Nichols conceded Simmons\u2019 point, stating  that he could not name any \u201ciconic\u201d acts from the late 80s, 90s or  2000s.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation followed<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/culture\/gene-simmons-future-of-rock\"> an Esquire interview<\/a> from early September, when Simmons declared the past three decades had  not provided what he called \u201ctimeless\u201d or \u201crevolutionary\u201d artists.  \u201cNirvana. That\u2019s about it. They are the notable exception,\u201d he said.  \u201cRock did not die of old age. It was murdered \u2026 New artists that stand  the test of time \u2026 whose art can survive them, who become icons, are so  rare as to almost be nonexistent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking this week, Simmons claimed the problem could be  traced to declining record sales. \u201cI think it really comes down to when  technology outpaces the laws of the land,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the wild west \u2013  people just go and grab territory and don\u2019t pay for it. It devalues new  bands. It doesn\u2019t affect me \u2013 I make a living \u2013 but it\u2019s sad, because  the next Beatles or the next Kiss \u2026 does not have a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss\u2019s Gene Simmons has repeated his claim that rock\u2019n\u2019roll is \u201cdead\u201d, insisting that not one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}