Muhnday musin’

Some of y’uns might know Jay, aka “The Boring Old Man” from comments.

What some of ya might not know, is he is also a blogger. He doesn’t post much these days, but man, when the guy has a wordspill, he HAS A WORDSPILL!

I posted a comment over there on that subject matter, and to illuminate for those of you that don’t catch such stuff, I’ll embed one here.

(Karen is her name, not a derogatory thing.)

Admit it Peeps!, We grew up in the best of times, especially when it came to music. Doesn’t matter if you were a teen in the 60’s 70’s or 80’s,, heck even into the 90’s with Grunge and Industrial explorations,,, But come the 20-aughts,,, something shifted down,,,,

Maybe its all the streaming ease? That for under a couple grand, a body can put together a hell of a studio, synth all the instruments, and splice together a complete track, master it, and publish it with no more overhead or ‘trial by fire’ than the “hit the publish button and pray”

See, all, and I do mean ALL, of the bands we grew up with; They didn’t get that ease of function. They were there, in the trenchs, playing every downtrodden bar, finding what worked, what got the girls shaking their hips, what drew the yawns, and they did it FOR LOVE. Maybe there was the calling of making it big (Selling out as the industry used to call it) but that rarely was the opening bid. The opening bid in most cases was LOVE OF MAKING MUSIC. Even Boston, who, initially, was just two guys and a multi track with some serious techy gee-whiz stuff cobbled together in a basement. They went straight to label, but THE LOVE was buried deep in that music. Try to convince me otherwise, and I will point you straight back at the opening of the track those two above listened to. No one makes music like that without loving every aspect of music FIRST.

Anywhoosabobber,,, go Give Jay some love on his site (link above)

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