But you have to LOOK for it.
I challenge us older types to go to a bar or club and catch 5 acts for $10. In NYC you can go on Bleeker St any night and do this...I used to gig at The Elbow Room (now a CVS...RIP) and, yes, a few of the bands will suck but you may find that the Death of Music is not here yet. Maybe you'll pay $10 for a CD or shirt and keep things moving (my latest CD additions are from punk bands in Maine and Philadelphia). Yaelle recently wrote of her college-age son getting involved in a program where you paying a fixed amount and you can get into any participating club for free. On a larger scale, go to a show of 1000-1500 people and catch some new acts.
There is equally no shortage of boring old people blogging that Rock is Dead while listening to The Stranger and The Last Waltz (yet again) on their iPad. I love The Who but even Daltrey said he's tiring of singing some songs. Be part of the solution, not the problem!
Right you are. But don’t take FReepers talking about music stopping in 1972. This subject has nothing to do with actual music. It’s about the controlling propaganda, it’s about 1984, it’s about us no longer having that beautiful constitutional free speech any more.
I feel bad for Kanye today, but it’s not just Kanye. It’s ANYONE who dares utter something counter to state oligarchy. It’s all of us. Please tell me how this is any different from North Korea. Our Great Leader is the oligarchy socially forcing us to hate a good President. And Kanye said the Great Leader is wrong. And now he’s been forced off social media and shaken down by his own tribe (music world). He might as well have been sent to a work camp.