| MP3, internet, information overload
Im not against the internet, but before the internet, there wasn't such an information overload, When I was a kid, I had like 30 Lp's , Ya really listened to your album all the way thru both sides, you had time. Now a kid has 30 albums in one folder and a hundred folders in the ipod. It's so many choices that ya never get to really know the whole album. I remember when I got a new Queen, Styx, Ac/Dc, album It was maybe all ya had for the season, ya saved money, took the bus down to the mall and bought it. Ya played the hell out of it, loved every minute of it. It wasnt as simple as point/click, ya got the album and just like anything else earned vs. handed to ya... ya know. There's another thread going on about the depth/clarity of the 70's, 80's mixes. I think with MP3, P2P , it's just not worth it for anyone to put that kinda time and deeper level of arrangement into the stuff, only for it to just get flipped thru in the ipod and or stolen. I use the internet daily but I think we were better without it. My 16yr old son and friends are always over, looking at my guitars,drums and im amazed at how they are drawn into the music playing at my house... Stevie - Songs in the Key of life, Billy Cobham , Styx, Floyd, Chicago, Eagles, and all my heavy 70's fusion they know them b/c guess what... it's the background music in all their video games, Lol. They ask my , how come they dont make music like this now !!! Yeah, they listen to new stuff but seriously appreciate gravitate to the classic stuff of the 60's,70's,80's , almost instinctively.
These kids are hungry for deeper, more arranged music with 60's 70's and 80's heavy vocal harmony, power, ect . . . Owell... my 2 cents, fwiw . . . |