Originally posted by mrcrowley

Fellow guitarists: Why has music today decreased so much in talent, concept, and direction?

The answer:

Music industry and money.

Music (i mean real good music - that kinda music u where talking about of the 60-80) is too expensive.

Letz go back in time to the 60´s....
Music had a different meaning.. it was an event! You where listening to hand made music for multimedial overkill wasn´t present. TV was not so important (Video killed the Radio star - its true).
When one wanted to chill one did not turn on the TV or play a computer game. This was the time when hundreds of talented bands where playing all over the world in several pubs. There where actually peeps who where interrested in hearing good hand made music LIVE.

Can u imagine that a band like Gentle Giant (VERY difficult to hear) had 12,000 peeps at a concert in Germany back in the late 60´s?? Today they would have not more than 120.

And why is this?

LISTENING to music has lost its value. It is too time consuming.

Its not that there are no talented musicians and bands here anymore .. its just that noone realy listens to them anymore but a few freaks.

And then the music industry. The Music Industry is NOT interrested in music - its interrested in making money (with music). and they are smart enough to know that when u are playing a specific type of music over and over again on Radio/TV peeps will begin to like it. So it was just logical that electronic music (techno) and music that is very easy to make made its way. For it is much cheaper to create music on computers then pay real musicians - and its much faster - and if you bombard peeps long enuff with that sh** then they´ll sooner or later love it.

Then - as i said - Video kiled the radio star. the popular musicians of today are not good musicians - they are good (?) actors.. or at least the look good.

Musical individuality does not fit in todays music industry.

sad but true

-=[Azrael]=-