When someone comes to me & says they like Satch, & I tell them to check out Segovia or John Williams their open to it.When I try to get a alt rocker to expand his listening skills I'm usually faced with contempt. Life is a musical journey, and there's so many talented individuals out there that many people don't hear about because music education is at such an all time low that most peoples ears can't appr. what there doing.
Music is about emotion, and the #1 emotion I hear from rock music today is anger. Anger is a pretty easy emotion to emulate.It's not hard to write an angry song. Now you may defend this by saying it's a sign of the times, but up to last Tues. the times in Amer. have been pretty good.
I say it is the fault of the Edu. system. Budgets for music programs have been cut & sometimes Eliminated, & Amer. veiw of music ed. is at an all time low, they would rather throw there money into Athletics.
Remember that during Mozarts time that music was considered pop music, & 60 yrs ago Charlie Parker & the bebop movement was considered pop. Can you see the decline from Parker to Limp Bizkit?
So if listening to Satch is gonna inspire someone to expand his listening pleasure thats fine w/me, cause I know commercial radio isn't