Originally Posted By: Mark79100
I wrote this in another thread. I thought it would make a good topic for comments.

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I sometimes think music is going to eventually be made by just one single unit where your current pop icon vocalist just presses a button when he's ready to release another (mindless) song and the machine spits it out. Kind of like a "password" software program where, after you set it up, it coughs up a different combination of "passwords" with each go! Or like Band in a Box....you give it a set of chords and it gives you back a melody while you mow the lawn.

In fact, the more I think about it, the more plausible it sounds in this age where people just take what's handed to them and don't question the quality or the integrity of what they're getting. Kind of like our latest gift to mankind...double-digit inflation! Just put it on someone's plate and they'll eat it no matter how toxic!

I shudder to think that's where music production and entertainment will eventually end up!

Mark


Mark ... getting back to your original post, I had the occasion to spend a couple of nights in Hartford CT this past week... next door to the hotel was this Louisiana style restaurant that features live music every night ... one night it was a 17 piece jazz/funk band ... there wasn't a player over the age of 45 yrs and I would say that at least 10 of them were under the age of 30 ...
The next night was 'blues jam' night, and while there were a number of 'older' players, there were still a lot of young - less than 30 yrs - players also ...
so there ARE still young people making real music out there, fortunately ... smile ...can't say what's going to happen in the 'pop' world, though ...
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