Rock and roll is boring.

Having little, if nothing to do with the level of talent of the scores of bands both at the top of the music industry and struggling to reach mainstream respectability, rock and roll has become boring. Long before and after Joan Jett saw a 17 year-old boy with his back against a record machine, rock was dominant. However, as with most things transferring into the fully digitized mainstream, in examining the punishing effect of technology upon rock and roll, there exists an answer to our problem.

It’s a lot easier for a child to learn how to use a computer than to play a musical instrument. Even further, it’s far less expensive to purchase and learn the nuances of a computer than a bass guitar. The advent of computers makes it much simpler for someone to enter music as well. What once took at minimum another person, is now a solo quest, as if a producer with Fruity Loops or Logic, you can synthesize the experience of harmonizing guitars and percussion, a one-man band going from cartoonish cacophony to commonplace occurrence.

As humans grow more connected to technology and less connected to interpersonal communication, the harmonic ties that make rock and roll so uniquely powerful disappear. Our heroes are now men who control synthesized symphonies or iconoclastic solo performers, rendering rock and roll a relic of another era. Making rock relevant instead of boring? An issue requiring sea change in the concept of human interconnectivity, old school values necessary in a new school environment.

Rock was great. It can be again. If and when the world changes, rock will rise again.