jorge wrote:PCSTAG, maybe you are seeing the music business through Texas colored glasses, but in lots of other places, at least in the US, what we are seeing is very different. Many outstanding musicians who play better than the big timers are no longer able to make a full time living playing music locally. Many working people can no longer afford to go out to clubs and concerts or buy stacks of CDs or purchase lots of download music. Lower salaries, higher cost of living, rapidly increasing tuition and less financial aid for our kids in college, more unemployment and underemployment, increasing medical costs, and other factors all conspire to reduce expendible income for many middle class people who would otherwise support music. Many events are now hiring DJs rather than live musicians (this has been going on for years but is getting worse). Many kids who could become talented musicians are not choosing to study music because they see how hard it is out here to make a living once you have gone through the years of disciplined work to learn to play. Many music groups that rehearsed regularly years ago can no longer have regular rehearsals because the gigs pay so little their members need to be out doing other things to survive and can't make time for rehearsals. The quality of the music suffers.
Sure the bands from the 70s and 80s have already been optimized for marketability, what you are calling the test of time. But fewer and fewer people have money to spend on concerts, so the opportunities for young talent to make it big are shrinking even further.
BNB, sure professional musicians are trying to adapt, but the music business pie is shrinking and many professional musicians are adapting by no longer being professional musicians. Creative ways to get more people to pay musicians to play great music are truly needed. What are people trying that seems to work?
Sorry to be so pessimistic, maybe it is just my NYC perspective. What are others in other geographic areas seeing?
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