Molly Hatchet - Beatin' the Odds

You said it! And it's not like it was their fault. It was the record industry 110%. Every decade they wanted something new. By the early 80s, the Uriah Heeps, Foghats, and Molly Hatchets of the world went from stadiums to bars which they've been playing ever since. By the early 90s, even the big names like Poison and Mötley Crüe were suffering. By 2000, the record industry decided to kill off whatever was left of rock/metal and has been on a downward spiral ever since. Bands like Slipknot and Linkin Park are really lucky because they were the last 2 rock groups to benefit from the industry before they gave up. Because of this, they can be considered the last "rockstars". The industry has been shoving pop and rap down our throats for the last 15 years and nothing is substantial anymore. And the new rock groups that do play arenas (Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold, Shinedown), well, those arenas are located in rural/white trash parts of the country because the industry has confined the rock music market to those parts. For example, even when old groups like Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, or Ozzy come around, they have to play the Allstate Arena, an arena located in Des Plaines (a white trash suburb just outside of Chicago and near me) because they aren't "refined enough" to play United Center, the arena in downtown Chicago which is reserved for the likes of Elton John, Rod Stewart, and Barry Manilow. Some bands are able to go between both (The Who, AC/DC, Van Halen), but mainly there's a dividing line between the Allstate Arena groups and the United Center groups...holy shit this was a long rant haha.