[ClearCase_guy]

Bands that had real stage presence, they could play instruments and took delight in their skill, people in the band actually wrote their own songs, the people who sang really, really sang well (better than they danced -- which used to be the point of being the singer). Music used to have some real notes behind it -- now, in many cases, it's just a jungle beat while someone wails at high volume and tries to be Whitney Houston, or someone like that.

I blame Michael Jackson and Madonna. They got to be hugely successful by emphasizing all the wrong things.

[dfwgator]

I have “The Who at the Isle of Wight” from 1970 on DVD.....the stage was just the four of them....no pyrotechnics, no fancy light shows.....and it totally blows away anything else I’d ever seen....because the four of them were at the top of their game in their respective instruments, and their stage presence, they were the show, not the effects.