Whatever happened to the loud and obnoxious garage bands of the 60's? It seems that breed of gutter rock, in your face, call the police street music is dead. There was a time when you could drive through any neighborhood on a summer day and hear some band somewhere playing to the neighbors as though they were big rock stars. I know. I was one of them.
Although music is totally different today, the garage band groups of the 60's were a training ground for the superstars of tomorrow. Now the training grounds are gone and from my point of view so is all of the great new rock music. No one experiments with overdriving amplifiers or new ways to get your guitar to squeel and feed back. Has the addiction to video games or hip hop to pre-recorded music shut down the music innovation of the garage band era?
Whatever happened to garage bands? Where has all of the great rock n roll music gone?
Staying in tune....
Jonny Chepe