What Happened To The Music Industry?

[GymnJuice]

I remember when tons of musicians became one with their instruments.....true masters of their instruments....now not many can even play chopsticks on a piano with all the electronic BS they have now.

Bunch of no talent flash in the pans.....the music I grew up with is timeless and will last forever.

[SweetDaddySiki]

Raising the drinking age to 21 killed the bar business and the live band opportunities along with it.

Very true! Buddy Guy (blues guitarist) owns a club in Chicago and has had many acts play there over the years. He still tours and he's over 80 I think. He says raising the drinking age and stopping people from smoking in bars along with lawsuits against bars for drunk patrons driving has pretty much stopped the club scene and thus less places to play other than bigger halls.

[IroNat]

Very true! Buddy Guy (blues guitarist) owns a club in Chicago and has had many acts play there over the years. He still tours and he's over 80 I think. He says raising the drinking age and stopping people from smoking in bars along with lawsuits against bars for drunk patrons driving has pretty much stopped the club scene and thus less places to play other than bigger halls.

Yep.

You cut out a huge age group that went to bars and nightclubs to drink and watch bands. 18 to 20 year olds.

All those college kids.

[ElPolloSalmonello]

I wouldn't pay $900 to fuck Taylor Swift.

Lololol. Clever.

[wes]

[wes]

Very true! Buddy Guy (blues guitarist) owns a club in Chicago and has had many acts play there over the years. He still tours and he's over 80 I think. He says raising the drinking age and stopping people from smoking in bars along with lawsuits against bars for drunk patrons driving has pretty much stopped the club scene and thus less places to play other than bigger halls.

Im bigtime into classic rock,Motown,and mostly the Blues.

True story about Buddy Guy.....he went to Chicago from Mississippi to make some coin playing his guitar....couldn`t get shit for work..........had 5 bucks and a baloney sandwich in his pocket one cold Chicago night and decided to head back down South.

Later that night someone told him Muddy Waters guitarist got sick and they asked Buddy to sit in.....the rest is history.

I know a lot more pretty cool stories about Blues musicians where one guy shot off a piece of his cock sticking up  for Muddy in a bar fight,and another famous guy (James Cotton), had a bullet lodged in his head for decades.....stabbings and brawls etc.....those guys were badass.

[CalvinH]

Im bigtime into classic rock,Motown,and mostly the Blues.

True story about Buddy Guy.....he went to Chicago from Mississippi to make some coin playing his guitar....couldn`t get shit for work..........had 5 bucks and a baloney sandwich in his pocket one cold Chicago night and decided to head back down South.

Later that night someone told him Muddy Waters guitarist got sick and they asked Buddy to sit in.....the rest is history.

I know a lot more pretty cool stories about Blues musicians where one guy shot off a piece of his cock sticking up  for Muddy in a bar fight,and another famous guy (James Cotton), had a bullet lodged in his head for decades.....stabbings and brawls etc.....those guys were badass.

I think my fav is Lightning Hopkins

[kreator]

I read people payed 900$ to watch Taylor Swift. Audience 90% female. Kind of telling what women waste money on and why men are better at saving/having assets.

I read somewhere that women spend 70-80% of the money earned by both sexes

[Humble Narcissist]

I read somewhere that women spend 70-80% of the money earned by both sexes

No doubt. Women are more materialistic than men.

[G_Thang]

The 80s British Invasion was an era in music worth listening to. Amazingly, the British musicians don't get deserved credit.  Of course, the USA had Prince, MJ, etc. but the British had volume

[wes]

I think my fav is Lightning Hopkins

Howlin` Wolf....check him out......thank me later...... we`re talking raw BLUES!!

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So many greats it would be truly hard to single out one artist.

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[CalvinH]

Howlin` Wolf....check him out......thank me later...... we`re talking raw BLUES!!

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So many greats it would be truly hard to single out one artist.

Oh I know them all from Sunhouse to Robert Johnson and on but I like the way Lightning had an attitude in his music.

[wes]

Oh I know them all from Sunhouse to Robert Johnson and on but I like the way Lightning had an attitude in his music.

I hear ya  bud....Hopkins is a legend.

I`m a big Jimmy Rogers fan.

[Rambone]

After Beats by Jay dropped back in 2011, the music industry knew that it hit a peak that it could never match ever again and simply gave up.

[1Patrick]

Best music mother Russia ever produced

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[MAXX]

There is still very good music being produced today you just have to seek it out more than in the past.

Modern music is fine - you have all just turned into yor fucking grandad.

Naaah,,, you guys are just plain stupid  You have no inner being or can't analyze the world around you. Sort of just goes-with-the-flow/"don't think about it man"- type of droid/zombie. But that's okay! As most people are like that. That's why a demented/half dead man can be voted in to office to rule the most powerful nation in the world, just as one example.


But I'm not the only one to have these thoughts about stagnation of culture/lack of innovation since about the early 2000's.

...It's kind of in-line with the rise and popularity of the internet. Maybe connecting everything and everyone is the cause of this who knows...

[CalvinH]

I hear ya  bud....Hopkins is a legend.

I`m a big Jimmy Rogers fan.

I love the Skynyrd live version of T for Texas!

[wes]

I love the Skynyrd live version of T for Texas!

That`s weird bro....just this morning on YouTube I watched Chicago,an Allman Brothers entire concert,Tower of Power live....and an entire live show by Skynard.....all kicked much ass.

[CalvinH]

That`s weird bro....just this morning on YouTube I watched Chicago,an Allman Brothers entire concert,Tower of Power live....and an entire live show by Skynard.....all kicked much ass.

Skynyrd not Skynard God Dammit

[youandme]

Jay tried to turn it back around by releasing his beats by Jay, market to far gone at that point.

[wes]

Skynyrd not Skynard God Dammit

GEEZ.......gimme` a "T" for Temper !!!!  LOL 

[Humble Narcissist]

Naaah,,, you guys are just plain stupid  You have no inner being or can't analyze the world around you. Sort of just goes-with-the-flow/"don't think about it man"- type of droid/zombie. But that's okay! As most people are like that. That's why a demented/half dead man can be voted in to office to rule the most powerful nation in the world, just as one example.


But I'm not the only one to have these thoughts about stagnation of culture/lack of innovation since about the early 2000's.

...It's kind of in-line with the rise and popularity of the internet. Maybe connecting everything and everyone is the cause of this who knows...

The internet definitely can cause information overload. We also now have the choice to listen to all genres of music from any decade so this skews how bad the music is today. We are comparing what is popular right now vs songs from the last 75 years.

[GymnJuice]

Skynyrd not Skynard God Dammit

yeah but it's pronounced skin-nerd

[Brenda Steunbeer]

Im bigtime into classic rock,Motown,and mostly the Blues.

True story about Buddy Guy.....he went to Chicago from Mississippi to make some coin playing his guitar....couldn`t get shit for work..........had 5 bucks and a baloney sandwich in his pocket one cold Chicago night and decided to head back down South.

Later that night someone told him Muddy Waters guitarist got sick and they asked Buddy to sit in.....the rest is history.

I know a lot more pretty cool stories about Blues musicians where one guy shot off a piece of his cock sticking up  for Muddy in a bar fight,and another famous guy (James Cotton), had a bullet lodged in his head for decades.....stabbings and brawls etc.....those guys were badass.

Well, not "badass" but very stupid. Drugs, alcohol, always addicted, always getting into trouble, jail, hospital (with no insurance) broke and living on the streets. Typical blues idiots always succesful in ruining their own lives  :-)