Seems pretty silly to sit behind a computer and bitch about not hearing the music you want to hear when you can buy a $75 interface and either get a free DAW or spend a few bucks to buy one and just write what you want to hear.
I was born in ‘82 but was raised on Ryche, Dio, VH, Whitesnake, etc, so I’ll always have a love for that stuff. Especially Ryche. I don’t think an 80’s revival is really possible. Everything that came from the 80’s was brought on by the influence from the bands that came from the 60’s and 70’s and that’s certainly not the kind of music that we’ve had in the last 20 years. Whatever we get now, as far as new bands, will be people trying to re-create what was going on back then and they’d have to really love it to A) pull it of well and B) make an attempt at succeeding with it.
The social climate these days is NOTHING like it was back then, a 20 year old kid has no way of grasping what it meant to BE metal back then. That enthusiasm and discovery of getting harder and darker has come and gone a long time ago because it’s been done already.
That said, at least guitar is still a very relevant object these days. I have to assume that there are more guitars being built and sold now than there ever has been. You’ve got YouTube celebs with their own guitar brands, all the knockoffs from China in addition to the old favorites that are still pumping them out, with various models under their brand.
It’s hard for me to even say what is mainstream and what isn’t. I’ve got ZERO rock/metal radio in South Florida. We got a classic rock station that’s newest music is “Nothing Else Matters”, so I can’t even gauge what’s going on outside of the internet. The internet, though, tells me that there’s a SHITLOAD of younger players who are being influenced by guys like Tosin Abasi, Plini and Guthrie Govan. In the sense of guitar heroics in the 80’s, I think THAT has certainly made a comeback, it’s just moved far beyond shredding. While most here aren’t probably checking out the latest Periphery or Abasi album, that doesn’t take away from the fact that those guys are all killer guitarist who are bringing something new to the table that’s getting the younger generation excited to play.
I’m in a couple guitar groups on Facebook, some with a few thousand members. Recently there was a “Show your main axe” thread and I was floored at all the Strandenburg’s I saw. Easily 1/4 of the guitars posted. Not my thing, but obviously these kids are getting influenced by these guys to the point they’re somehow getting their hands on the guitars they use and I think it’s a lot cooler that they’re being influenced by these new guitarists who are re-defining technical guitar playing than it is for them to want to buy the newest sampler or synth to sit around and make beats with.
I dunno, I think it’s just a giant waste of time to sit around and bitch about what you’re not hearing when the ability to make it yourself is so easy these days. Crying that some guys are drop tuning their guitars and getting to tour the world while supporting their families is for basement dwellers and people bent out of shape that they didn’t have the balls to stay out on the road carving their own niche in the business.
You used both in this thread alone. I'd ask a mod to delete the 2 post one and move on 
