Looking back now, it seems like Rock and Roll was just starting to get even better in 1969, but the late The Doors vocalist and main lyricist Jim Morrison had a different point of view. He believed that the music didn't have the same essence as in the previous decades because it became a self-conscious thing. But he hoped that after the Vietnam war was over, the music could be revived again and turns out he was actually kind of right about it. Why Jim Morrison believed Rock and Roll was dead back in 1969 He said that in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 1969. "It’s like what we were talking about earlier in the movement back to the roots. The initial flash is over. The thing they call rock, what used to be called rock and roll — it got decadent. And then there was a rock revival sparked by the English. That went very far. It was articulate. Then it became self-conscious, which I think is the death of any moment. It became self-conscious, involuted and kind of incestuous. The energy is gone. There is no longer a belief." "I think that for any generation to assert itself as an aware human entity, it has to break with the past. So obviously the kids that are coming along next are not going to have much in common with what we feel. They’re going to create their own unique sound. Things like wars and monetary cycles get involved, too." He continued: "Rock and roll probably could be explained by… it was after the Korean War was ended. There was a psychic purge. There seemed to be a need for an underground explosion, like an eruption. So maybe after the Vietnam War is over, it’ll probably take a couple of years maybe. It’s hard to say, but it’s possible that the deaths will end in a couple of years. (So) there will again be a need for a life force to express itself, to assert itself," Jim Morrison said. He was then asked if he felt he could be part of that and the musician explained that it was hard to say but maybe as a "corporation executive". He tragically died two years later, in 1971, at the age of 27. The Vietnam war came to an end in 1975 but during the 70s many bands wrote songs inspired by all the violence and hate in the world and the music genre continued to evolve especially until the 90s. Nowadays, many famous artists believe that Rock is Dead, like Gene Simmons for example. He often says after 1988, very few big famous and influential Rock bands appeared. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0-XY1o_u3I&t=2s&pp=ygUVdGhlIGRvb3JzIGJhc3MgcGxheWVyThe post Why Jim Morrison believed Rock and Roll was dead back in 1969 appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.