The Irrelevance of Classic Rock In "The Era of Perfect Music"

I just uploaded a video it was my episode 88 of what makes the song great and it was blocked immediately it was Led Zepplin ramble on which is one of my favorite rock songs of all time and instead of getting on here in complaining about blocking and the fact that I wasted 15 hours of my life working on a video talking about how great this man's music is it made me think about the relevance of musical styles the era of imperfection if you will of those early rock bands from the 50s through the mid nine years or so when Pro Tools came into into use or the late nineties was an era where the limitations of the recording mediums for example tape made you think before you tried to fix things because you didn't want to take a chance on erasing things now imperfection and music has become irrelevant to a certain degree most of the music popular music that's on the radio or that people stream on Spotify or Apple music is music that's generally created by a small group of people on laptops there's very little imperfection in it you don't have to worry about things being out of time or having a human element to it because it's actually not even thought about anymore things are placed on a grid the sounds are created in studios and there are presets that some people tweak some people don't even bother tweaking they just take out a preset start playing create a loop put a song together create a verse a chorus they follow these formulas and the era of limitation is over now one of the things I've tried to do with my what makes a song great series is focus on songs and talk about what elements make them great I don't always think the songs myself are great that's why I have a question mark in the title because I'm always curious to know what other people think makes the song great what makes a song great it's usually accommodation of things the melody the lyrics the rhythm many times it's the imperfections in the music that make it great now you don't necessarily think about it when I was going over ramblin there's tuning discrepancies here and there in the guitars and you know there's a little speeding up and slowing down there's that ticket ticket ticket a sixteenth note part that's being played but we accept those things because the era that I grew up in was an era of imperfection and and people really never even thought about it that this was the humanity of in music and that humanity has been taken away to a certain degree when you quantize things when you auto-tune things when you use all canned sounds when I say can sounds I mean sounds that come from computers right synth patches or you know drum samples things like that that really don't take any time to create except for the people that wrote the programs and created the sounds originally I mean when you think of the 808 drum machine that it was created back in whenever was 1980 or the early 80s and those same drum sounds are still being used today originally people had to create their own sounds they had to record drums from scratch with microphones they had to record acoustic guitars with microphones and vocals and things like that and they couldn't tune them they had to sing them till they got him right and they wouldn't dare take a chance on erasing something that was close because at that time perfection was the enemy of good or great and people learn to live with imperfection an imperfection became a central part of the music now you got into the 80s and people like month Mutt Lange producers like Mutt Lange who did the way did the ACDC back in black album but really he's known for for things like Def Leppard and these records that are perfect whatever that means and Shania Twain who he was married to one time and had these perfect records and then we eventually made it into the late 90s and we had Pro Tools Pro Tools made it to where anyone could make records anybody could make a bad drummer sound like they could play in time anybody could make a bad singer sing in tune whatever that means and it allowed people like me to not have to work in a studio for three years to intern under somebody that was a professional producer and I could read the manual of Pro Tools and figure out okay this is how you record even though I had no experience in this except for my ears people talk about Oh so-and-so created the the Billy Eilish record was all done on a laptop it's like yeah all records are done on laptops because the laptop is a computer so people create everything on computers now that's how recording is done unless you're using a 2-inch tape machine which almost nobody does anymore so this era of imperfection is over so my question is to the people that black music all these classic artists the people like Fleetwood Mac at Led Zeppelin and Guns N'Roses and Prince and Jimi Hendrix and and all the people whose videos I don't include in the what makes a son great series Ozzy Osbourne or Black Sabbath I don't take a chance on these things I took a chance on Zeppelin and I wasted 15 hours of my life when I could have spent it with my family or making a video teaching someone something who do these people think that they're selling their music to or who do you who do they think they're introducing what new audience are they introduced in their music to well I say that they're not that their music is going to be gone with them and it will never be introduced to new audiences because of these draconian things like blocking I don't make the money from what may some great videos the artists that write the songs make every cent of it what is the difference between the original video of ramble on making money or my video telling people what a great song ramble on is when Jimmy Page Robert Plant are both getting money from both videos all the money I'm not sure what that does so that benefits them to not have people talk about their music unless you talk about it in an abstract way where you don't even play the music I'm just thinking out loud here because I wasted 15 hours of my life and I realized that people are going through difficult times right now and I'm trying to create content for people the videos that take people's mind off this and take my mind off it too that's all I have for you today I'm sorry I don't have a video that I could put out but I wanted to put out my thoughts while they were still fresh in my head please remember to subscribe here if the subscribe button and hit the notification bell if you want to support the channel think about buying something from my store might be out of book a mug a t-shirt or you can sign up and become a member of the B Auto Club I have a thing on there where I'll do a 10-minute reaction video of one of your songs it's most of the times it's filled up but it's not filled up right now check it out and thank you so much for following my channel all this time [Music]

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Length: 8min 17sec (497 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 13 2020