>>>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 think that's always been the case. Back in the day, in the UK, there were those who had long hair and listened to Genesis, Yes, etc., others - Lead Zep, 10 Years After, then the short-haired "skinhead" types who only listened to Tamla-Motown/Ska/Reggae, then the squares who still listened to their folks' music.

Today we have Brit-Pop, Techno, Rap/Hip-hop, Reggae, Rock mainly - I don't think we're any more "split" into genres than before.