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Halo Shallow Your Blackest Eyes
Lead Guitarist, and mastermind of the band Steven Wilson was asked about the shape of the music industry...
Difficult to say. This is the worst time in history for the music industry. Everyone agrees on it, artists and labels - everyone involved.
I believe that ultimately what will happen is that recorded music will become something no one will pay for. People will expect to get it for free, even now a lot of people don't think about buying music, just to download it. Recorded music will become an advertisement for the live show. I already see it in Porcupine Tree concerts, where the attendances keep on growing, and the record sales as well, but not in the same proportion.
People get to know the band from downloading on the internet for free but they pay for the shows. This has a positive side, because it means that bands who play real instruments, and can manage a good live show will survive, and the kind of manufactured artists like Britney Spears won't. These are interesting times....
----Steven Wilson.......It struck me that in the 21st Century what's replaced race relations as the number 1 concern for young people is a kind of terminal boredom, a generation X thing, it's the blank generation. It's exacerbated and accelerated by living vicariously through gadgets. Since I was a kid in the 80's the amount of technology that's around now is unbelievable. The worst thing my parents were probably worried about was TV, and we only had 4 channels in the UK back then!
But now we live in the information technology age – with the Internet, Ipods, cellphones, Playstations, and Xbox's. You have the proliferation of TV channels, digital TV and MTV and it's various imitators. You have lowest common denominator stuff like American Idol, Big Brother, Cribs, and all the other similar shows.
It seems to me that no one's really trying take notice or take gauge of how all this stuff is affecting the younger generation. You know, what kind of human beings are we going to turn out?
I couldn't have put it better myself, so I didn't try.... Music is dying a most unflattering, slow, painful death, and it's hard to watch, and even harder to listen to. Like Wilson, I want to go deaf when I hear most of the stuff out there, especially rap. How about you? Do you think today's youth are actually HEARING the music? When they have no physical contact with the band, such as an album or a CD to own, they simply delete it from their iTunes playlist, move on, with the attention span of a flea....and forget the whole thing happened... He just wrote a guest editorial in September about music reviews.....found here
"Great music journalism is an art in its own right. It places music in a historical and cultural context while revealing the passion and personality of the musicians that made it. It reaches out beyond the music to the core of the human condition, just like the music it is about. "
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