Here's my problem with new music/rock.
I've had so much loud force-pumped into my ears for so long, a lot I didn't want to hear, that I just don't listen anymore to pick up new rock. I'll have tinnitus the rest of my life. I'll always have some bkg noise to mask it. But I don't even own a stereo, don't want to. I have a mute switch now in retirement and by cod I use it.
I don't even want to be at another concert again,...except maybe walk-through see how the production is done, see old friends and leave. I'll watch one on tv because I have a volume knob I'm not obligated to push up. I was completely burned-out 17 yrs ago. SO if it's new since then I prolly didn't hear it.
Old rock has great memories and still the greatest stuff, it's all been done, I just don't want my ears pounded with it daily. Maybe once per month I'll put headphones on and dust my ears 1-3 tunes to get my 114db fix, that's about it.
So ya, I'm not up to date and may never get there.
The thread was started on how we moved away from it, why proper weeding isn't happening, why every mix sounds the same, straight-line "0" on every meter.
Most vids some posted were "ya, it used to be great, like this...". We went from high dynamics to no dynamics, and to an engineer it blows, why I lost interest 17 yrs ago.
Today, I like the clean smooth high skilled stuff, even then... old.. Eric Johnson, Larry Carlton, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Gary Moore, Joe Bonamassa (without the crybaby stuff) and prog rock like Floyd. Pretty stuff. Evidently I walk backwards when something is doing nothing for me. Went back to classic rock when disco and new wave came out, forced to metal again because disco and new wave was still out....MTV blew.
So to listen to that stuff means nothing else is triggering me and I stopped looking.
In short, I'm ruined. Carry on.
