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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
IRock Music didn't become the sellout (read HUGE Dollars) that it is today until the 80's. So the fact that zeppelin, doors, and hendrix didn't sellout is kind of irrelevant.
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Im not getting your point, in the 80s rock music decline. New wave and pop took over. The 60s and 70s were the heyday. How many mansions did Zeppelin have? The Beatles? Stones? Sabbath? Alice Cooper? The whole rock star indulgence is from the 70s era.
There is pop - singles based music
Rock - which was more album based.
People bought the Stones albums, They bought ABBAs forty fives.
There were plenty of sell outs in the 60s and 70s.
So lets take some artists from the past 20 yrs - Janes Addiction, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, White Stripes, - did they try to make hits or make great music? I think they tried to make great music and some happened to make hits. All comes down to integrity to me.