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

Burnham Treezdown <burn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


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.


The local community station in Tucson, KXCI, used to be the place to hear
some great music but sadly it's been slowly taken over by the current
generation of tone-deaf weirdos. It's rare that I can turn it on now & hear
something that isn't bizarre noise or annoying foreign-language
world-beat....or worse yet, screwball rad-left politico whining. Even the
great Kidd Squidd has gone over the hump and rarely makes Saturday
afternoons worthwhile anymore.

Our kind of music is headed for the same museum that houses Dixieland,
Jimmie Rogers, Django, Billie Holiday and mandolin orchestras. It'll be
there, but you'll only hear it if you dig it up.



well that's a shame really. But good stuff is out there, it's just
you have to make an effort to get to it. I still say a lot of people
knock what's out there (and rightly so) because they are listening to
what the corporate mass media machine is serving up.

It's kind of like saying "good food isn't around anymore" and you're
point of view is eating at McDonald's.

The again the argument might be made that life long McDonald's eaters
might not know what good food is anymore or ever knew at all.

But the little stand with homemade ribs and the barbeque drum
out back smoking nicely will be overlooked by the masses.

Ah well I still say that good music is out there it's just
not being served up by mainstream channels.

Personally I think eventually there will be a backlash
and it will all get back to what's old is new again.
And yes, it will be served up again into mainstream because
people think it's cool and advertisers like the demographics
and it will be repackaged and over produced and cheez whizzed
and around and around it goes.

I am sure when old time blues players heard acts like the
Beatles and Elvis and the Rolling Stones they rolled their eyeballs and
said here come the white bread boys all packaged up nice for the teen market.

Every generation thinks its music is the best.
I am sure when the Beatles arrived people listening to the fading
big band stuff and Sinatra and Bing also moaned that 'music was dying...'

But that's the cool part about rock n roll... it never sleeps... like rust.
So it is inherent that it will change a bit and some of those changes
along the way aren't going to be liked by everyone... but don't worry
I think it all comes back to basics again... the wheel keeps turning
and it gets back to where it once belonged (eventually).

whew. I type way too much.
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