Do Rock Gods exist in today’s music?

[BengalsRocker]

It really depends on how far you go back when you say recent?

Also I'd say a Rock God is someone who is impressive or larger than life.

Of course opinion and taste of music skews views.

What Sunset was alluding to is that Kid Rock is a larger than life kind of guy and even spanned genres.

Even if you hated him or didn't care for his music he's still a popular rock icon.

Now if you put it on a talent that blows you away kind of thing... not a whole lot of recent in the Rock genre that fit the bill.

That's why so many people in this thread are gravitating towards blues and instrumentally based guys like Trucks, Tedeschi, KWS, and especially Joe Bonamassa who is the most popular modern guitarist in the world currently.

Dave Grohl is multi-talented musician and a decent writer, but nothing really blows you away.

Corey Taylor mixes it up but again nothing he does is amazing either.

Really the media/recording industry doesn't promote Rock like they used to.

Having AOR radio stations in the past allowed bands to make legendary music that could be about any time length in songs.

In doing so it promoted songs that had dynamics instead of the whole "get to the chorus and keep it to 3-4 minute max" way of thinking.

MTV and other video outlets don't promote rock bands either.

Rock is on life support right now and the plug is hanging halfway out of the wall.

Metal will probably always be around but with an underground following mostly.

Avenged Sevenfold and Killswitch Engage probably being the most recent popular ones.