"The Death of Real Music"

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Techdeth said:
All kids are doing this with social media . And look at Facebook . The girls think they all are Instagram models but use fake ass filters . In person they look like ads . Social media is ruining the human experience I swear
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I agree with that. The filters are everywhere and they are crazy. You'd see a hot chick in person and think "well she could have better skin or smaller waist" all because we now view everything through those filters. The same is happening with music.. snap to grid, auto tune, drum samples, everyone processing the same way in their home studios. Endless videos on NY drum compression or how to dirty up a bass track. Gear reviews all dropping within 20 min of each other. An endless list of fake candy to consume.
 
Greazygeo said:
The bands that play out regularly are older. Younger players don’t seem to be interested in interacting with others.

There are some younger bands (mostly “metal”) with no real venues to play. Bigger cities there are a few. The “let’s have ten bands that play for the other band members”kinda shows.

Kid that works for me has a band that plays out once a month or so. They do originals and covers and are not metal. There are some younger bands that do exist, but are not the norm. Most venues around here just have single and duos.
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It is literally the complete opposite here, there are multiple clubs that are packed every night with original bands of 20somethings playing tube amps. It is mostly neo-funk, jammy and blues bands, probably not stuff most here would be into, but it’s live “real” music. There’s no chance an 80s cover band would get a gig around here because no one would show up.
 
RaceU4her said:
It is literally the complete opposite here, there are multiple clubs that are packed every night with original bands of 20somethings playing tube amps. It is mostly neo-funk, jammy and blues bands, probably not stuff most here would be into, but it’s live “real” music.
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Same here, but country, metal, and hipster stuff.
Would guess probably ten open mic nights going on downtown every night, too.
Add a few dozen buskers to that.
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
Same here, but country, metal, and hipster stuff.
Would guess probably ten open mic nights going on downtown every night, too.
Add a few dozen buskers to that.
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I’m not entrenched with the metal and hardcore scene like i once was, but that is going on the same way it was 20 years ago here as well. The jam band scene is wild though, we have I don’t know how many national touring acts based within a half hour of my town, and when the big bands play there are always after shows at the little spots, and when those bands aren’t touring they all have random jams constantly.
 
bubucci said:
A lot of cryin and envy about younger players... absolute TGP only 20 years later.
90s and 2000 were best because Your head stuck there.
There are still a lot great players soundwise and playing wise today, just explore. On the other side, I revisiting old metal albums from 80/90s , which are revered here and a lot of them just sound like shit and it is all about sentiment.
This complaining in the exact moment where You have to realize You are just old fart whit nothing to comtribute the world 😀😀
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The thing with this place is many refuse to use any kind of streaming platforms which I can’t understand to explore anything new or old. There’s plenty of 80ish sounding bands that have 500 listeners a month that are never going to be heard on liquid radio or whatever, which if they just had Spotify or whatever and listened to one of these bands once it would recommend a bunch of other similar bands.
 
Dan Gleesak said:
My girls are starting to listen to pop music now so I’ve been checking out the new stuff on the radio.
There seems to be a big swing towards more organic singer/songwriter stuff coming out which I think is cool.
I don’t particularly like the music, but it very much has the vibe of someone sitting down with a guitar and notepad, and writing actual songs.

I agree the social media stuff is a bit much though
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Geo said:
Computers and electronics are partially to blame as well.

Guitar players need to get back to just guitar and amp, the way it used to be.
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I think that will come around again, could take time...as people look to re-humanize music after the AI takes over for awhile; there will be a backlash...could go as far as acoustic-only instruments or similar purist reactions
 
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rsm said:
I think that will come around again, could take time...as people look to re-humanize music after the AI takes over for awhile; there will be a backlash...could go as far as acoustic-only instruments or similar purist reactions
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I’m sure there are still old people waiting for doowop, muscle cars and horse racing to make a comeback too, but that’s unlikely to happen
 
RaceU4her said:
I’m sure there are still old people waiting for doowop, muscle cars and horse racing to make a comeback too, but that’s unlikely to happen
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AI can't do live music. In the end, there will always be real people making real music for real people. Music survived the players piano, records, radio, and everything else. We'll get past AI as well.

If it ain't on a stage, it ain't real.
 
rsm said:
I enjoy making/playing music/noise so much more today because I do it for my own enjoyment, as a hobby, not to get gigs, sell music / merch. I learn, do, play, dabble etc., whatever interests me at the moment or for an extended period of time, and set my own goals and priorities.
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I wouldn't play much guitar anymore if there wasn't gigs and money involved. It's a big motivating factor to me. I don't like getting upstaged either so those things in conjunction motivate me to keep my chops sharp.
 
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RaceU4her said:
I’m sure there are still old people waiting for doowop, muscle cars and horse racing to make a comeback too, but that’s unlikely to happen
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I'm not that old yet, working on it, but I still want a doo wop revival.
 
BeZo said:
AI can't do live music. In the end, there will always be real people making real music for real people. Music survived the players piano, records, radio, and everything else. We'll get past AI as well.

If it ain't on a stage, it ain't real.
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im not sure where ai is gonna take music, im sure for us old folk we are always going to want that live interaction and its never gonna go away totally, but what about the 12 year old who mostly likely in a few years is gonna be listening to music created by some ai generator and theres no real band or anyone to play back that music? is that kid craving the live experience like we do? ive read about how night clubs are struggling these days, you would think young people meeting at a club to drink, look at hot chicks dressed up and dancing would never go away, but apparently it has. even cars, if you told me even 10 years ago younger people now would rather just Uber everywhere than have their own car, i would have thought that was crazy.. what kid wouldnt want the freedom of their own car and the sound and fun of a built v8, but at least in my area its the way it is now.
 
bubucci said:
A lot of cryin and envy about younger players... absolute TGP only 20 years later.
90s and 2000 were best because Your head stuck there.
There are still a lot great players soundwise and playing wise today, just explore. On the other side, I revisiting old metal albums from 80/90s , which are revered here and a lot of them just sound like shit and it is all about sentiment.
This complaining in the exact moment where You have to realize You are just old fart whit nothing to comtribute the world 😀😀
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Apparently you didn't actually read the comments or watch the video, because you sound like a crazy person throwing poop yelling "beans" at a nice restaurant at the moment
 
RaceU4her said:
you would think young people meeting at a club to drink, look at hot chicks dressed up and dancing would never go away, but apparently it has
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I feel sorry for you if this is the condition in your area because you just described an average Texas weekend night.
 
VonBonfire said:
I feel sorry for you if this is the condition in your area because you just described an average Texas weekend night.
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Yeah even in small towns all over the cascades, this is what happens with original punk and metal bands literally every weekend, as far as originals

and at fairs and winerys every weekend with cover bands

Apparently people aren't even engaging with the actual point of this post, I overestimated everyones comprehension level
 
@VonBonfire apparently the wide-reaching ramifications of social media on music are too complicated, so everyone needs to have a "WELL IN MY TOWN WE DO/DON'T HAVE _____" comment thread
 
DanTravis62 said:
Yeah even in small towns all over the cascades, this is what happens with original punk and metal bands literally every weekend, as far as originals

and at fairs and winerys every weekend with cover bands

Apparently people aren't even engaging with the actual point of this post, I overestimated everyones comprehension level
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