S. Cane
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Self explanatory title, but let's get a little bit more into this.
Of course, we still have some great blues-influenced guitar heroes, like Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jared James Nichols, Art Menezes, Joe Bonamassa and a handful of others. But I mean - no offense at all to contemporary artists - I have them all in my Apple Music playlists, but sincerely, I can't name many songs by anyone of them. If any.
I listen to everything, it's cool, they play really well, some are definitely as good or better than Clapton, Page or whoever, but the music is just not as breathtaking as it used to be.
Of course, streaming and internet advertising takes away a lot of the "hey, the Rolling Stones released a new album, let's take a trip to Tower Records and buy it!" feeling and that impacts the circumstance of music as a product a lot. Just as CDs and MP3 began to destroy the pleasure of owning, touching and looking at a vinyl record, cover art having been reduced to basically an ID of the disc.
This ain't just me speaking, I've read several references to this, articles and forum threads...
So, what do you think? How do you see this picture? Will guitar music ever rise above again or are we forever doomed with streamed "plastic" music?
Of course, we still have some great blues-influenced guitar heroes, like Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jared James Nichols, Art Menezes, Joe Bonamassa and a handful of others. But I mean - no offense at all to contemporary artists - I have them all in my Apple Music playlists, but sincerely, I can't name many songs by anyone of them. If any.
I listen to everything, it's cool, they play really well, some are definitely as good or better than Clapton, Page or whoever, but the music is just not as breathtaking as it used to be.
Of course, streaming and internet advertising takes away a lot of the "hey, the Rolling Stones released a new album, let's take a trip to Tower Records and buy it!" feeling and that impacts the circumstance of music as a product a lot. Just as CDs and MP3 began to destroy the pleasure of owning, touching and looking at a vinyl record, cover art having been reduced to basically an ID of the disc.
This ain't just me speaking, I've read several references to this, articles and forum threads...
So, what do you think? How do you see this picture? Will guitar music ever rise above again or are we forever doomed with streamed "plastic" music?