Isn't it amazing anyone plays in bands anymore?
- Thread starter Cadillac_Mike
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I lament that strongly.
It should certainly be implemented - it would make it much easier to convict them of their heinous crimes
When you walk into a real old style road house and find a DJ spinning songs to the roar of a satisfied crowd you know the end days are here and you missed the call up.
Flat6Driver
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My typos and autocorrect are world renowned!
buster poser
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What is an MTV video
radiocaster
Doctor of Teleocity
The bands posted here are quite retro.
I did go to several post-rock/post-metal shows a couple of years back. By now it's not a new thing, and the band members weren't that young even 8 years ago or whatever.
Sure it's not my favorite style, at times sounds like it needs vocals, but sometimes it sounds modern with the shimmery reverb parts and different effects.
I did go to several post-rock/post-metal shows a couple of years back. By now it's not a new thing, and the band members weren't that young even 8 years ago or whatever.
Sure it's not my favorite style, at times sounds like it needs vocals, but sometimes it sounds modern with the shimmery reverb parts and different effects.
Trenchant63
Tele-Meister
Awesome analogy!!!
People will always play in bands.
It brings joy to both player and listener.
I bet it always will.
It brings joy to both player and listener.
I bet it always will.
bgmacaw
Doctor of Teleocity
And young kids these days have no interest in guitar or vintage instruments either!
sax4blues
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We have two live music venues which skew to younger crowd. One has shows 6-7 nights/week and the other primarily Thu-Sat. So apparently young people are playing music here.
Flat6Driver
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In honor of this thread, fished out my Awai DAW, reminded myself how to use it, recorded a nice 4 bar loop, played a guitar part over it. It'll be on Spotify in 30 minutes. 
sax4blues
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When I read comments about what young people are doing I make the assumption writer is not a young person. And I wonder how these people have any idea what young people are doing unless they are actively engaged with the young people. When I was a young person my parents had no idea what I was doing. They didn't know the music I was playing or where I was playing it. I would conjecture that if you asked my dad in 1970, a working cowboy and country music listener about music, he would probably lament how kids(me) weren't playing real music anymore.
notmyusualuserid
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Music journalists were saying that about emerging prog rock bands in the 70s, "They're OK, but they're nothing new. Genesis were doing similar stuff years ago"
They were saying it in the late 70s about emerging punk bands "Oh gods, not another Sex Pistols tribute band"
They were saying it about emerging new romantic bands in the 80s "If it's not Heaven 17 it's rubbish anyway"
And so it goes. There's nothing new under the sun.
You want a completely new genre with no ties to what's gone before, go and invent it. We'll wait.
bgmacaw
Doctor of Teleocity
I think this points to where the issue really is, a lack of established music oriented venues in many areas. Maybe this is more of a US thing, due to certain "reasons", but a lot of these places were shutting down pre-you-know-what and that only accelerated the permanent closings.
buster poser
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bgmacaw
Doctor of Teleocity
Just like those Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin guys were playing recycled blues music.
The trend I've noticed as we come back from the recent unpleasantness amongst my acquaintances (50+ years old) has been a deep dive into bluegrass style music...acoustic instruments, small stages/rooms/crowds and a connection between artists and audience. These folks that I know are real, die-hard fans of live music and will routinely schedule 4-and 5-day 500+mile road trips that include several cities/stops/artists. And most of the artists look pretty young, a lot younger than us, at least.
I can find a ton of reasons to play music, listen to it, I have a bunch of groups I love... the problem is when we generalize and worry about the masses for their own good. Things are pretty good in music if you ask me... for me tons of great red dirt artists and new songs to love, a TON of old stuff to mine. SCADS of instruments to buy and ways to record them.
Lots of opportunities for everyone if they just, you know, apply themselves...
Lots of opportunities for everyone if they just, you know, apply themselves...
deytookerjaabs
Friend of Leo's
People don't have the same attitude about things they had 50-100 years ago and it's been a consistent progression.
IMO the pop sensibilities (that many of TDPRI think is some act of genius) in a formula of do-re-mi and preaching to the choir (your people, me, me, me, I, I, I) went from a portion of music to taking over music itself. Teenagers and adults of satisfied mind simply want to hear musical toaster oven waffles pre-prepped with words & attitude which they believe themselves to possess. That went from the formula in some country music, some doo-wop, some pop to being the only formula out there today if you want to "make it" in the classic sense. And, as follows, that's 90% of live music today.
I remember really being heavily into the wild electronic scene in the late 90's and 2000's. Most of that stuff was coming out of the UK but some in the states too. Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, Autechre, etc. These cats were pushing boundaries and whether it touched you or not you had to go see it. You, and 50 other people who "got it," lol. Because, by that time, pushing boundaries was dead. Whether it was noise shows, seeing fusion acts, riff driven "jazz," the last remaining south side blues & jazz clubs, etc I went to see it, again with 5 to 50 other people.
Meanwhile, my Dad's generation? People who had little to no taste in the wild flavors still went out to see wild stuff way more often. It always amazes me that my pops & his buddies had stories about seeing Muddy Waters, Mahavishnu Orchestra, even Benny freakin' Goodman! They did it just to see what the experience would be like, not because these were the guys on the radio in the late 70's/80's. And, if you hear stories from music loving folks a hair older than that it only gets more wild.
The poor kids now who are seekers have like 100 different small lanes they can go down but they don't have that culture of live music around them that is music for music's sake, not a show with chords & a melody or a fat beat for the sake of telling you who you think you are.
8 or so years ago, living in the big city, I had a large circle of friends/roommates around me. And, by then? The idea of going to see a show that was something foreign to your tastes was crazy talk to anyone besides my self and a few others.
The collective has been put in a box, the individual & ego have a monopoly on things both monetarily and philosophically. There will be a renaissance but I probably won't be alive to see it. It has to happen though, it's human nature.
IMO the pop sensibilities (that many of TDPRI think is some act of genius) in a formula of do-re-mi and preaching to the choir (your people, me, me, me, I, I, I) went from a portion of music to taking over music itself. Teenagers and adults of satisfied mind simply want to hear musical toaster oven waffles pre-prepped with words & attitude which they believe themselves to possess. That went from the formula in some country music, some doo-wop, some pop to being the only formula out there today if you want to "make it" in the classic sense. And, as follows, that's 90% of live music today.
I remember really being heavily into the wild electronic scene in the late 90's and 2000's. Most of that stuff was coming out of the UK but some in the states too. Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, Autechre, etc. These cats were pushing boundaries and whether it touched you or not you had to go see it. You, and 50 other people who "got it," lol. Because, by that time, pushing boundaries was dead. Whether it was noise shows, seeing fusion acts, riff driven "jazz," the last remaining south side blues & jazz clubs, etc I went to see it, again with 5 to 50 other people.
Meanwhile, my Dad's generation? People who had little to no taste in the wild flavors still went out to see wild stuff way more often. It always amazes me that my pops & his buddies had stories about seeing Muddy Waters, Mahavishnu Orchestra, even Benny freakin' Goodman! They did it just to see what the experience would be like, not because these were the guys on the radio in the late 70's/80's. And, if you hear stories from music loving folks a hair older than that it only gets more wild.
The poor kids now who are seekers have like 100 different small lanes they can go down but they don't have that culture of live music around them that is music for music's sake, not a show with chords & a melody or a fat beat for the sake of telling you who you think you are.
8 or so years ago, living in the big city, I had a large circle of friends/roommates around me. And, by then? The idea of going to see a show that was something foreign to your tastes was crazy talk to anyone besides my self and a few others.
The collective has been put in a box, the individual & ego have a monopoly on things both monetarily and philosophically. There will be a renaissance but I probably won't be alive to see it. It has to happen though, it's human nature.
buster poser
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That part
This is the golden age of music; new, old, and everything in between. The breadth and depth of access alone jeez. People who aren't seeing it need to expand their frame a bit imo.
