Ed, did you ever watch the Disney animated movie, WALL-E? It's a great movie but I think it made a lot of people feel uncomfortable because of the way it portrayed the humans. I think it hit a little too close to home for a lot of people to see exactly what we are becoming.
Jim
Jim, the gangster is the new bad boy and they rap.
Yes I have seen the movie and it did not bother me at all. I really don't care what 'we' are becoming. Music has never has a circle. Think of it this way, we were using the best technology we could in the 70's. Analog is all we had, but as soon as it was available, I began using digital recording. Since I was one of the earlier net guys, before the browser, we transferred files via ftp. If you had not early version of Amp Farm, you could simply ftp a track to someone else. Now to do this you do not need near the knowledge.
Napster killed the recording industry , but it was their own fault. Making digital copies on CD is faster and Was more profitable. First one I saw was in 79 at CMC, a high end audio store that did not have an apple with a bite out of it.
Greed digitized recordings and marketing to everyone it was superior to vinyl or tape. Once the music was converted for duplication all it took was accessible a file. Record companies were making record profits. They deserve what they got. It is also why tickets cost a lot more as the artist doesn't get a lot of royalties from sales.
When I make these comments it is often taken as I am, against smart phones and portable internet access and this is not the case at all. I just feel we shouldn't have thrown out the baby with the bathwater, meaning we have more to life than monitors. It began before that and eventually we will come to realize the purple dinosaur was not really a good mother.
We will realize the greed and quit making excuses for it one day. To see it is easy. Drive through a middle class neighborhood built prior to the boomer coming of age to start families and you will see brick on all 4 sides. A flashback will remind you of the neighborhood mother making lunch for you and your friends. This brick enabled the father to work overtime and the kids cut grass. I did not know what an allowance was. My mom and dad got me everything I needed. If I wanted something, dad would say you are able bodied, cut someone else's grass. I can assure you when I used his lawnmower to do it, some of my money I made went to lawnmower gas and maintenance.
The high school graduate was making widgets and enough money for the whole family and mom did not have to work. She could, but did not have to. The family watched TV together, both channels on vac and a blurry one on uhf. The high school graduate could read, so noted exception. Politics in school was about student council and not an agenda to parent children in the correct progressive mentality.
Things have changed a lot since I was a kid. With these changes designer jeans and what we drive became important, more important than our way of life. So, we have a new way of life.
If you have sex with a virtual reality model, is it cheating? It has only just begun. The present is amazing and everything has flaws. Very few people have any savings, but plenty of excuses why they do not. A great majority look at credit as their savings. My business consists of demographic survey, PR and marketing strategies for businesses. The 10year data on Social Media shows some very disturbing changes in our new Global World. Search and read some of the findings. Interesting to note is how much time is spent online. Me included and you too. What did you give up gradually until you now believe you no longer have time for? I still play guitar everyday, but not near as often with others. They don't have time.
George Gruhne said guitar sales are not sustainable, but guitar players seem to be very dug in as to wanting a wood guitar with 6 strings and a tube amp and thumb their nose at anything different. Of course it will decline. If technology or the use of it was still DOS and you had to know DOS and Unix commands, I am certain our present would look much different. Both are similar. Learning an instrument takes time and there is no instant gratification. Now when you cut your grass or want to brag about the fine dinner you are eating at exclusive place, just take a photo and instantly your so called friends on Facebook can feel bad because their life is not as good as yours.
When you chose to raise a family over chasing a music career, you put other first. Since self centered seems to be the accepted rule, so go buy stuff you do not need, in a place where all the money leaves your community. Who cares anymore if your neighbor has a job, what is their names anyway?
Greed is good! I may be old and crabby, but this doesn't change my experience.
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