>>>At the risk of sounding snobbish, I look at today's music, and wonder if there will ever be another Who, ELP, Yes, etc.
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>>I think there have been modern day equivilents to those bands. Beck comes to mind. Weezer, the Beastie Boys.
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>>Though I'll agree that it is about time for another generation to make their mark.
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>My serious doubts here. There doesn't seem to be "a generation". They're all split along their genre lines - the guys listening to this sort of music don't listen to that sort of music and vice versa, and there seems to be about 20 of these genres running in parallel. And they all have their own radio stations, own magazines, own market.
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>I hope time proves me wrong and there's a generation ahead which will steal the music back from the publishers.

There are many people who only listen to independent music, accomplishing this exactly. While not at the mass level, they are accomplishing it for themselves, which should be good enough for them.

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