Today is actually a much better time for music, but It is incumbent on the listener to search the Internet to find artists they like - radio as a portal to new music is dead.
Not only is radio dead, but it appears to me the whole concept of a music store is also dead.
...and, the best live show ever recorded. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 8, 1977. This show, widely regarded as the best rock show ever performed and recorded instigated the City of Ithaca to name May 8th the City holiday, "Grateful Dead Day," celebrated still to this day.
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.mtx.seamons.97274.sbeok.flac16
Nobody before or since has composed or performed at this level, and it will never happen again. Every instrument creatively innovated on by pure musical geniuses in perfect synch, on some of the most impossible compositions in all musicdom.
Garcia's "all harmonics" lead on "Loser" set a bar so high no other guitarist can even see it, never mind reach it. The band's jam on "Dancin in the Street" is a transcendent sonic orgy that builds to well out past the sun, and Garcia's lead on "Morning Dew" will leave you shivering with goosebumps. The whole show is A National Treasure.
All their April and May '77 shows were ridiculously phenomenal, but Ithaca was and remains the pinnacle of live rock-n-roll acheivable by man.
If you love music, put aside your preconceived notions and experience this at least once before you die.
Please.
;-/
...and, the best live show ever recorded. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 8, 1977. This show, widely regarded as the best rock show ever performed and recorded instigated the City of Ithaca to name May 8th the City holiday, "Grateful Dead Day," celebrated still to this day.
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.mtx.seamons.97274.sbeok.flac16
Nobody before or since has composed or performed at this level, and it will never happen again. Every instrument creatively innovated on by pure musical geniuses in perfect synch, on some of the most impossible compositions in all musicdom.
Garcia's "all harmonics" lead on "Loser" set a bar so high no other guitarist can even see it, never mind reach it. The band's jam on "Dancin in the Street" is a transcendent sonic orgy that builds to well out past the sun, and Garcia's lead on "Morning Dew" will leave you shivering with goosebumps. The whole show is A National Treasure.
All their April and May '77 shows were ridiculously phenomenal, but Ithaca was and remains the pinnacle of live rock-n-roll acheivable by man.
If you love music, put aside your preconceived notions and experience this at least once before you die.
Please.
;-/
...and, the best live show ever recorded. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 8, 1977. This show, widely regarded as the best rock show ever performed and recorded instigated the City of Ithaca to name May 8th the City holiday, "Grateful Dead Day," celebrated still to this day.
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.mtx.seamons.97274.sbeok.flac16
Nobody before or since has composed or performed at this level, and it will never happen again. Every instrument creatively innovated on by pure musical geniuses in perfect synch, on some of the most impossible compositions in all musicdom.
Garcia's "all harmonics" lead on "Loser" set a bar so high no other guitarist can even see it, never mind reach it. The band's jam on "Dancin in the Street" is a transcendent sonic orgy that builds to well out past the sun, and Garcia's lead on "Morning Dew" will leave you shivering with goosebumps. The whole show is A National Treasure.
All their April and May '77 shows were ridiculously phenomenal, but Ithaca was and remains the pinnacle of live rock-n-roll acheivable by man.
If you love music, put aside your preconceived notions and experience this at least once before you die.
Please.
;-/
No. the 70’s were too controlled by big corporations, and that limited what types of music were promoted and largely produced.
Today is actually a much better time for music, but It is incumbent on the listener to search the Internet to find artists they like - radio as a portal to new music is dead.
Free Talk and Music Radio Online
http://radiotime.com/index.aspx