Sad state of affairs when Our House streams more than Long Time Gone
75-80% of all modern music is stuff recorded prior to 1992
Per Rick Beato YouTube channel
That’s an aggregate of streaming, purchase, touring, BMI-ADSPEC-ASCAP and so on
And worse ....classic rock acts number similar Spotify plays as folks like Nikki Minaj or Ed Sheehan or Justin Bieber or Demi Lovato or Rhiannon
There are not enough boomers or early Xers left to account for that
It means young folks at least have a pretty fair inkling of rock music from 60s to Nirvana
And listen to it...
Amazing isn’t it
Unfortunately it’s likely fairly dilletante
If the fact they think Our House is Crosby Stills and Nash (Young) best work..lol
I don’t blame aging rockers for selling off.....these stats prove their catalogs are like a Permian basin or riches to be sold
And Beato also shows that rockers who allow YouTube and streaming stay more relevant and profitable than those who don’t
Hendrix estate prohibits such and is suffering streamwise for it....
All contrary to David Crosbys whining
My own many children know and listen to my music ....a fair amount
Although my younger daughter aged 31 deems Led Zepplin inferior to Rush or Queen
Sounds like an Xer but she’s a millennial ..just as daft on that one in any event ...my opinion....I know some dog faced pony soldiers here share that view....
Hard evidence that actual music, no matter how old, prevails over autotuned, formulated, electronic pap lacking any and all complexity.
There was certainly a lot of junk music in the Boomer years but we also were living through a golden age of great music whether we realized it at the time or not. Even 60s junk may be better than what the poor millennials are being subjected to by the current Lords of Music.
Nothing in the past 20+ years can touch this.
And we were in high school and college at the very peak.
Sigh.
One Way Out live at Fillmore East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ9twEldw_M
Allman Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=allman+brothers+band
Lynyrd Skynyrd
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lynyrd+skynyrd
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Ain’t that the truth. LTG, Almost Cut My Hair, Deja Vu, Wooden Ships…. the highlights of Crosby’s catalog, imo. It’ll be interesting to see how much he gets for that thing.
My favorite solo album by anyone in the CSN crew is Stills’ Manassas (‘72). No hits on there, and it pulls from a few genres, but somehow it all works brilliantly.