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28 июл 2025 :	Watch: Original TESLA Members BRIAN WHEAT And TOMMY SKEOCH Perform Together For First Time In Nearly Two Decades
24 май 2025 :	TESLA Releases Music Video For 'From The Heart' Instrumental Song From 'All About Love' EP
9 апр 2025 :
30 мар 2025 :	TESLA's Catalog Surpasses 300 Million Streams On SPOTIFY
20 мар 2025 :	BRIAN WHEAT Won't Be Heartbroken If TESLA Never Gets In The ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
5 мар 2025 :	TESLA To Release Limited-Edition Double LP 'Real To Reel Vol. II' On Record Store Day
3 мар 2025 :	BRIAN WHEAT: TESLA Being Called 'Hair Metal' 'Used To Drive Me Nuts', But Now 'It Doesn't Bother Me' Anymore
24 фев 2025 :	BRIAN WHEAT Explains Why TESLA Will Probably Never Make Another Full-Length Album
15 фев 2025 :	TESLA Shares Music Video For Electric Version Of 'All About Love'
27 янв 2025 :	TESLA's JEFF KEITH: 'People Know We're Playing Songs That We've Written From The Heart'
17 дек 2024 :	TESLA's FRANK HANNON: 'We're Not Rich; We Never Became Millionaires'
16 дек 2024 :	FRANK HANNON Explains Why Fans Shouldn't Expect A TESLA Box Set Any Time Soon
1 дек 2024 :	TESLA Releases Music Video For Acoustic Version Of 'All About Love'
29 окт 2024 :	TESLA's BRIAN WHEAT Says METALLICA Is One Of 'The Top 10 Greatest Bands Of All Time'
20 окт 2024 :	TESLA: 'All About Love' EP Details Revealed
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18 янв 2021

TESLA's BRIAN WHEAT Doesn't Think Rock Is Dead, But Admits 'It's Become More Of A Selective Thing'

TESLA bassist Brian Wheat has dismissed the notion that rock is dead, saying some of the biggest artists in the genre are still huge concert draws.

While rock 'n' roll has been king of the music world for decades, in the past few years, it's been unseated by the growing popularity of hip-hop. This has caused many pundits to proclaim the genre "dead" from an industry perspective, noting that it has been eclipsed in all measures by pop, hip-hop, and EDM.

A few years ago, KISS bassist/vocalist Simmons told Esquire magazine that "rock did not die of old age. It was murdered. Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed and now it won't because it's that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs. No one will pay you to do it."

A number of hard rock and heavy metal musicians have weighed in on the topic in a variety of interviews over the last several years, with some digging a little deeper into Simmons's full remarks and others just glossing over the headline.

Wheat, who is promoting his recently released autobiography, "Son Of A Milkman: My Crazy Life With Tesla", spoke about rock's supposed diminishing status during a recent interview with the "Rock 'N' Roll Icons With Bode James" podcast. Addressing the whole "rock is dead" debate, Brian said (hear audio below): "Well, I don't know. I think Gene made a lot of money on that [KISS] show in Dubai [on New Year's Eve]. It didn't seem like rock was dead that night.

"I think what Gene's trying to say is that rock as it was, say, in 1989 is not the same as it is today," Brian continued. "In 1989, rock was all over the media, it was all over TV, it was all over radio, and now it's become more of a selective thing that was similar to maybe the early '70s when rock wasn't — you had these waves of hard rock. So I think that's what he's saying.

"It's not dead; it's just not number one on everyone's list. Especially when you look at that 10-year run we had from about '87 to '97, with rock and grunge, whatever you wanna call it; it was still rock music to me. And it was everywhere.

"That's what I think he's trying to say," Wheat added. "It's not dead, because certainly when you put DEF LEPPARD and MÖTLEY CRÜE and POISON and Joan Jett in baseball stadiums, and it sells out in a day, that's not the indication that that kind of music's dead. But, look, there are less rock stations. MTV doesn't play rock videos, VH1 — those things are gone. So, as we knew it at that time, yeah, it's different. But I wouldn't say it's dead. But that's Gene's thing. I'm not worried about Gene's thing. Gene gets enough publicity."

The "rock is dead" argument has popped up again and again throughout the years, including in 2018 after MAROON 5 lead singer Adam Levine told Variety magazine that "rock music is nowhere, really. I don't know where it is," he said. "If it's around, no one's invited me to the party. All of the innovation and the incredible things happening in music are in hip-hop. It's better than everything else. Hip-hop is weird and avant-garde and flawed and real, and that's why people love it."

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18 янв 2021

grgr

Басист сам еле живой, похоже.