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The beauty of Youtube is that it never runs short of videos to prove any point, and no point. These are the Iron Maidens, an all-girl Iron Maiden tribute band. Does that mean Iron Maiden's audience is comprised of hot chicks with big boobs?
That's where you need to look at any backup source. Is there critical acclaim? Have they been featured in Billboard, Rolling Stone, npr, etc.? Have they won any awards; Grammy, Loudwire, Brits, MTV? Have they played major festivals; Glastonbury, SXSW, Coachella, Womad, Roskilde, Lollapalooza, Primavera, etc.? How big is the audience? - You don't amass gold discs or hundreds of millions of youtube views without prooving a point. So no a YouTube video is not enough but the details and critiques around it are.
I was in Tallinn, Helsinki and Turku a few months ago and I can honestly say Bogota is a far more Rock & Roll city than either of those today. Rock bars abound far more and you just feel more of a scene. Young Bogotanos listen to a lot of Rock, those that listen to other genres tend to be migrants from other more tropical cities from the country or Venezuela.
If visiting and just randomly walking/looking around to find "Rock bars", it is quite much like mission impossible.
Helsinki and Turku have rock-bars but that is not a trend here, clubs are(Oldest from 50's).
Also bigger restaurants have rock-weekends and then there can be several bands playing...And then there are theaters also having rock evenings.
It is not business to keep a bar where capacity is 30-150 clients and some band playing every evening, in Bogota that can be the case but not here.
Also need to remember that in Bogota population is 7000000+ and in whole Finland around 5500000...So you just can compare Bogota and some city from Finland and make conclusions of rock bars...
Here is tip: If visiting here at summertime, most rock happenings for sure are on country side and lake/sea shores(Festivals, concerts,etc)
At summer time for every week and almost every day you can find live rock.
And now fact: in Finland we have 70,2 heavy bands per 100000 residents, it seems that Colombia have around 2 bands per 100000 residents and now you are telling that you can not find rock from here...and Colombia is more rock than Finland? Okay then....
Some video footage from local rock club, country side concert(Area of my home town), etc.
Next time when visiting(If) here, then you may know better...
Christmas is also rock and singers (example from Deep Purple and Uriah Heep) comes to Finland and sing Christmas songs with heavy note. This is tradition.
They both play fairly simplistic hard rock rooted in the blues, which is best described as party rock. Both have their gimmicky stage act. KISS with the make-up and AC/DC with the schoolboy outfits.
Mmmm, I'm not buying that. The notion that AC/DC are the Australian version of KISS is laughable. Truer to say that AC/DC are the antonym of KISS. Most hard rock is fairly simplistic and of course rooted in the blues. Schoolboy outfits? Plural? One member wore an outfit. Not the full band in full makeup and dress up costumes.
Compare album to album, say 1980, Back in Black V Unmasked.....
That's where you need to look at any backup source. Is there critical acclaim? Have they been featured in Billboard, Rolling Stone, npr, etc.? Have they won any awards; Grammy, Loudwire, Brits, MTV? Have they played major festivals; Glastonbury, SXSW, Coachella, Womad, Roskilde, Lollapalooza, Primavera, etc.? How big is the audience? - You don't amass gold discs or hundreds of millions of youtube views without prooving a point. So no a YouTube video is not enough but the details and critiques around it are.
There is definitely a market in the Dominican Republic, but its almost entirely limited to urban areas from upper middle class and up. Usually, Latin American and American rock bands are very popular. Locally grown bands are also listen too.
There are a couple of big acts from the US that had a big year back in 2019. Tool and Dream Theater come to mind. If any of the big names from the 70's/80's put out an album, it's going to top the charts. I'm talking about the likes of Metallica, GNR, Aerosmith...
BTW, I really like Nightwish. Can't wait for the next album.
Me too,I'm also a Nighwish fan
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And now fact: in Finland we have 70,2 heavy bands per 100000 residents, it seems that Colombia have around 2 bands per 100000 residents and now you are telling that you can not find rock from here...and Colombia is more rock than Finland? Okay then....
1. I've seen those semi-nonsense and European-biased ratings but even then Colombia always hits around 30 metal bands/100k not 2.
2. I was solely talking about Bogotá not Colombia. In fact Bogotá is starkly different from the rest of Colombia. Many travellers hate it because it doesn't fit their stereotype, walking off the plane in shorts & thongs/sandals.
In Bogota some chicks may like rock but our chicks also plays rock:
Looks like a bunch of poster girls with little substance to me. And when there's substance its usuallly a pretty poster girl any way.
Colombia's most commercially successful Rock-Alternative band is led by a woman (from Bogotá of course).
Maybe you should set foot in Bogotá before you make assumptions like I've travelled around your country going out to bars & alt-neighbourhoods.
Aterciopelados (LIVE) 2xPlatinum, Rolling Stones magazine honour, Grammy winners.
Bogotá chicks don't play rock the hater says..
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Going to Rock Al Parque in Bogotá will blow your mind or send you into a tumultuous, envious rage. One or the other.
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