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Late 80s and 90s also had huge acts like Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis (less so in the US), Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters.
by pgodzin 10y ago
Late 80s and 90s also had huge acts like Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis (less so in the US), Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters.
- aidenn0 10y agoI knew I forgot some. I could have sworn I typed in RHCP, but they aren't there. I was never a GnR fan, and I heard "Champagne Supernova" so many times I think I've intentionally wiped all memory of Oasis out of my head. Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, and the Foo Fighers I have no excuse for forgetting. Ironically, I was listening to "The Color and The Shape" while typing this in but still forgot the Foo Fighers.
- douche 10y agoIt's hard to find an era that doesn't have huge acts. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Kiss, Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Deep Purple and more stretch through the 70s into the 80s, leading into AC/DC, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Motley Crue. It's more of a niche now than then, (and maybe I'm ignorant of developments outside of the harder rock zone) but there a still big rock bands now; The Black Keys, Godsmack, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Chevelle, Disturbed. They may not be Beyonce or T Swift, but they can sell out arenas.
- ChemicalWarfare 10y agoI highly doubt that any of the bands you mention in the 2nd paragraph will sell out an arena by themselves. Even in their heyday godsmack,a7x, disturbed would maybe fill a large club. But then once the "real metal" picked back up 10 years ago or so these bands lost their appeal to the old school slayer/pantera audience just because there were other "options" available. Same goes for the younger deathcore/metalcore crowd (with a7x managing to stay afloat in that pool but nowhere close to where they used to be popularity wise).
- serge2k 10y agoThe black keys are pretty mainstream compared to the others.