Re: Go Ahead On Back... To The Roots, To The Daze, To The Old School...

Random Excess <tejas_pedro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...Then, and only then, will you be able to shape the future of
music. Until and unless you do, you just copyin' the latest pop poop.

Did'ja ever notice how music without foundation pretty much sucks?
Can you hear how the music that builds only upon last year's flavor
becomes less tasty every year? Stay on the foundationless path and
music will eventually sound like spit. Oops! That's right, lots of
it already does. So sad.

Did'ja somehow manage to perceive that folks like Derek Trucks and
Susan Tedeschi are moving the positive music experience forward
because they willing to ack ack acknowledge the history of music as an
art form?

I feel real bad for everyone who did not have the good fortune to
hear the great rock bands in the actual past like I did. If there was
just one thing that they did right it was to recognize their roots,
but they did so much more; they astounded and amazed.

I urge all of you youngsters to check out the origins of blues and
rock music, from Robert Johnson, to Louis Jordan, Little Richard, and
Chuck Berry. If you really wanna rock, you might should have a
listen.

Texas Pete


I really think there is a lot of good music being played by all sorts
of bands out there -- it's just that we're never going to hear it over
mass media airwaves.

It is not the music that has become stale it is simply the business
model that promotes and distributes music and music video content has
become stale. It has become the black box where music has to travel
through to get out to a large audience. Along the way that black box
has changed from cigar chomping indie producers and radio station owners
who were willing to play anything and give everything a chance to make
some money into today's corporate black box that has a narrow set of genres
that it knows will attract advertising dollars for specific demographics for radio
and that same coporate black box is generating the same subset for
all distributed music. It is not about what is good or bad music - it's only
about what attracts advertisers and targeted audiences.
So this also means that the audience (listeners) are as much in fault.

But if you listen to true indie college and university stations that
play all sorts of unknown bands and indie bands with small but loyal
following and indie artists that continue to write and play great music
then you're attitude to what is available now might change.

if you only get your music from mass market feeds (TV, Radio) then
of course you might think that the end of music has already occured.

If you get your music by going outside of the corporate 'black box'
be it through indie radio, internet.. whatever.. then modern music
is alive and well in all its art forms and genres.
Old skool still rules and it's out there in various forms even though
a lot of it has morphed into good stuff played today (if you keep an ear
to music being distributed outside that pesky black box).

Unfortunately this takes effort and most listeners simply turn on
the path of least work - turn on commerical radio stations and TV.
They have a very narrow band of what's out there and like sheep are
content to graze where they are told to graze.

that's my 2 cents.
.

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