Are bands really disappearing or is it a myth?

Far Out Magazine ^ | February 25, 2025 | Tom Phelan

[Clutch Martin]

Wouldn’t it be cool if big horn bands made a comeback?

[Revel]

People producing music in their bedrooms without a real band and using auto tune do not qualify as great bands.

[dfwgator]

THE STONES will live forever.

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“The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney.”

-Steven Wright

[dfwgator]

Now people worship DJs who push a few buttons.

When Will The Bass Drop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8

[dayglored]

> There are more ways to combine notes than there are stars in the sky, seriously

That's true. But the vast majority of those combinations result in jazz, and I'm not talking Miles Davis jazz, I'm talking Sun Ra or Ornette Coleman jazz.

I say that as a lifelong jazz fan. :-)

[dfwgator]

I remember back in the early 2000s there was a short Swing resurgence.

[dayglored]

> It’s virtually impossible at this point to do anything with rock music that hasn’t already been done.

I have had the great privilege of growing up with rock since the 60's, and playing in rock bands from 1965 onward to the present. While always an avocation not a vocation, it's nevertheless been the single constant in my life as relationships and jobs and homes have come and gone.

And sadly, I have to agree that the section of musical space/time occupied by rock has pretty much all been explored, charted, composed, played, and in many cases, played to death. Hard to imagine what a truly new rock innovation would be, and I don't see anybody coming up with one.

So our job is to keep the existing body of music alive by continuing to perform it as long as there's anybody interested in listening to it. Eventually those folks will decrease in number, and another musical era will close.

Fortunately for me, I'll probably be gone by then. I intend to keep playing as long as my fingers work and my brain can control them. But all things come to an end eventually.

[dfwgator]

And still there is a lot of music that was made in the 60s and 70s that is still to be discovered, and thanks to YouTube and other Internet sites, it’s all out there now.

[dfwgator]

Well at least hopefully being in a band will still be a good way to get the chicks. ;)

[dfwgator]

It would be interesting if you could use AI technology and converted all those old Swing-era records to make it sound like you were actually listening to it live.

[dayglored]

> there is a lot of music that was made in the 60s and 70s that is still to be discovered,

That's true. And even earlier. Only a few months ago I finally got around to buying a couple of Link Wray CDs, after seeing a video of Jimmy Page talking about the influence of Wray on his music ("Rumble" in particular).

[dayglored]

> ...good way to get the chicks

Oh it still is. But unfortunately, the "chicks" that I attract are all my age.... LOL

[BEJ]

The reason there are no bands is that the writers are all hairdressers now. A whole generation has become hairdressers now. All they can think about is the curls in their hair. I can remember the days when this wasn’t the case.

[dfwgator]

Oh it still is. But unfortunately, the “chicks” that I attract are all my age.... LOL

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LOL...Reminds me of this....

Dad Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31PrzVpMktE

[Zuriel]

**Well at least hopefully being in a band will still be a good way to get the chicks**

Shallow ones. I dated several back in the day.

I married an absolute doll almost 47 years ago. I recently showed a pic of her, when she was 20, to our pastor’s 29 year old wife. She replied, “oh my, that’s a 10 on a scale of 10”. Of course I’ve always felt that way as well.

But thing that helped me win her was that we think the same about many things. One is this subject. We liked popular music, but weren’t interested in spending much money on listening to, which included a lack of interest in going to concerts. She’d rather be at some lake in the woods.

And that girl can cook!! Baked me an apple pie a couple nights ago, and its already gone.

[Jonty30]

Probably. Probably, also, 99% of the combinations are crap.

[dayglored]

Wow, that little movie is priceless!

I'm sending a link to my daughter (30) who will laugh herself silly.

Thanks!

[dayglored]

You (and your wife) are very, very fortunate and I congratulate you!

Prayers for you both for continued marital bliss, and may God Bless.

[dayglored]

> Probably, also, 99% of the combinations are crap.

Now, now.... as a wise jazz musician friend once told me:

"There are no 'wrong' notes. There is nothing wrong with any musical note. There are only notes that have been played at the wrong time, or in the wrong song."

[Angelino97]

Who listens to any classical music that was composed in the last 100 years?

The best "classical" composers are all doing film & TV soundtracks -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; The Godfather; Conan the Barbarian; Starship Troopers; Game of Thrones; Mulholand Drive.