Posted on 08/24/2020 6:25:31 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Even the music industry is facing an “Existential Threat”.
Flock of Seagulls, Corey Hart, and The Human League.
> All the good music has already been made. <
I get not one but two county music TV channels with my over-the-air antenna. All they play is modern county. It’s all mush.
There is nothing wrong with a modern country band covering a classic country song. So I sit there and scream at the TV set. “Play something classic! Play something made famous Johnny Cash or Loretta Lynn!” But they don’t listen.
Most musicians will say “ I got a gig tonight “. California hates the gig economy and everybody in it.
I’m driving down a red dirt road in my daddy’s pickup truck. Got my girl beside me in cutoff jeans and an ice cold can in my hand. We’re gonna hit the lake and dance in the bed of the truck, watch the fireworks and make some of our own.
It doesn’t rhyme, but it has all the bro country tropes. Gimme my CMA.
That’s on top of the damage caused by AB5.
But there is a substitute for the LA music scene, whatever that is.
As a former Country Music radio DJ, that’s about it now.
Patent Office Commissioner Henry Ellsworth, 1843
I liked Alabama and Restless Heart. I’m sure traditionalists hated that stuff when it was coming in. I hated Garth Brooks when he came in and he seems ultra-traditionalist in comparison to the current stuff. But, while the ones I mentioned signaled a change in sound, it’s still different now. It’s not something to get used to. It’s lowest common denominator cookie cutter garbage. It’s the death of country. And, it wasn’t really a coincidence when a gay, “married,” high-powered country exec. managed to get Mike Huckabee thrown off a country music board for his “radical” Christian views.
BUT...there is zero shortage of new, good, and AVAILABLE music. There are zillions of new bands in a plethora of genres out there. The big diff is that radio and MTV aren't part of the discernment process anymore (except for college radio and XM's Underground Garage).
You, the consumer, have to do a little searching and maybe put in a little effort, but you'll be rewarded richly with new music that rivals that of your childhood heros, and will renew your hope in the arts.
And very often, those new bands have digital AND physical media. It's a match made in heaven - by the invisible hand.
I don't know if LA is done-for, and if venues will survive. I've seen some decent efforts to raise money via the free market for venues - this one is my favorite (the sax player works with Dweezil Zappa). Hopefully a combination of good music and good venues survive the Dem-inflicted economic damage. For any musician still rocking and any venue still kicking, and any city still standing, the payoff may be epic.
Nope, but lots of terrible music has. Plenty of good stuff still rolling out, just not on mainstream media broadcasts.
As far as I’m concerned, the entire country music archive should be nuked from orbit, for example.
Mention an old hound dog and I’ll buy your 45 single.
Wait. I’m showing my age. Do they even issue 45 singles anymore?
It may be good, but it's all been done before.
Yes. I am amazed how little attention this horrendous and destructive law has gotten.
Tell me again how music composed for a brand new instrument that’s not existed before has ‘been done before’?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQKy67j4hr4
Nope, thank god.
Sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Yeah, no. It isn’t. Check my other video linked above.
You’re like the idiot 1843 Patent Office Commissioner, Henry Ellsworth. “The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.” Or, put another way “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
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