98.5 KOME – Fan Blog

METROman has uploaded a bunch of photographs of KOME Decals in various forms at his Flickr account! I send my biggest thanks for being allowed to post here as well.:-)

Here is my favorite photo ~

Okay, so they are all my favorite photos, I just can never decide

Now for today’s post ~

I was thinking about how Rock Radio has evolved from the early 70′s to now. And many folks have voiced the same concern I have come to, Rock Radio seems to not be in existence on the air waves today. Classic Rock yes, Rock music of today no. Why? Because Rock the way we remember it ( well, the way I do anyway) just does not exist anymore. We have the bands of the 60s through the 90s touring now for sure, but where are the new bands?
I really want to know what it was that changed in the kids minds to have made such a drastic switch. My oldest daughter tells me about all the new bands that kids today consider rock and roll. I want to get into them a bit here and contrast them to some of my favorite bands just to see if it is just me who has not evolved or if Rock is really persona non grata.

* I have been warned by my daughter to not dis her bands, lol to be fair or else; and so I shall be *

Band number one from today’s music culture ~ Tool

And Disturbed ~ Stricken

And lastly ~ Chevelle * and the video is from one of the movies I thought absolutely rocked – 300!*

So far, not bad not bad at all! Maybe my view of rock being extinct is extreme. Some of the other bands I checked out but did not link up for space issues are Five Finger Death Punch a sort of Metallica-ish sounding band, Avenge Sevenfold, whose Afterlife is a pretty slamming tune that got my attention. Here is the link for their official Youtube video for Afterlife. We also now have Sixx AM who I do not really include in this study since MC has been around and I am hard wired to love what ever they do as MC or separately. Last but not least is Buckcherry who has been touring with Motley Crue this year * be careful tho if ya have kids in the room when you listen to their album Black Butterfly on the website!* Oops, another band to add in really quick is Black Stone Cherry , check out their video Lonely Train it rocks.

So it seems I may have been way off and just missing my bands, my distinct sound.I will admit that a short search has reveled that Rock is still around, still beating its noise into the brains of innocent kids all over the world. This is as it should be What does become clear is that there are fewer major Rock Bands to listen to, compared to what we had back in the day.

I will be doing more research on this topic in coming days, and of course will always be on the look out for new bands but I remain a skeptic that rock is what I remember. Is that bad, maybe not; but I also do not want to think I am so close minded that I can no longer hear the music, that would stink. So, what do you think about the state of Rock and Roll today?

And as always, please visit each Bands Official Websites that are linked here in this post and also will be posted on the Artist Page.