Blog Post: A Rock & Roll Reckoning

A Rock & Roll Reckoning.

There’s a quiet reckoning unfolding in the world of rock music — one that every fan, whether they admit it or not, can feel in your bones. The icons who shaped a generation of incredible music are entering the twilight of their lives.  In just the past few years alone, we’ve lost legends like Wayne Kramer & Dennis Thompson, both from MC5, Mike Pinder (The Moody Blues), Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead), Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys), the Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne, and most recently, Ace Frehley from Kiss, and this is just a sample.

As a lifelong music lover, I’ve had to face this truth before.  I can still remember exactly where I was when we lost Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, and the poetic soul of Gord Downie from The Tragically Hip.

And long before them came the losses of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse, just to name a few.

Over the coming years, we’ll inevitably say goodbye to many of the artists who shaped the soundtrack of a generation. But their legacies — and the catalogs they offered us — won’t fade. They will live on every time a song finds us at the right moment, stumble on a track we haven’t heard in years, or a band we never gave the time they deserved, feeling like you discovered them all over again.

Neil Young summed it up best: “Hey Hey, My My, Rock and Roll can Never Die”.   By the way,    Neil young is 79.