That’s where the real pain is. It takes a lot of work to break a new act. You have to tour tour tour, work work work. It’s more difficult now for many reasons. Most debut or sophomore record acts are now forced to tour in “festival” type bundles of five or six acts. Everyone gets maybe 25 minutes of stage fine and a free buritto every night. It’s a dead end.
Because this is a dead end bands prefer not to do it. Clubs no longer have enough national acts coming through to justify paying a full time booker/talent buyer. You have waitresses and bartenders part-time booking clubs. They know nothing at all about music or acts that are making headway. It’s all the same to them.
Everyone gets sick of it all and hires some 20 year old nozzle to hit play on his laptop on the weekends and call it EDM. It’s a mess. All of it.
I don’t really care anymore, I got out and got my money. As a consumer though, I know in getting shortchanged.
That's pretty much the way it was in the 60s. It's going 'back to the future.'
Now that’s what makes me laugh, all these people going crazy for some dweeb who presses a button.
Yep, I’d read a few times that the huge album sales of the top acts financed production of albums that didn’t sell well and also the introduction of new acts as you describe. Now about half the revenue is gone along with the huge sales top groups once realized before so many music lovers stop paying for their music.