It has been awhile since my last post. In that post I focused on Current Music Realities and the responsibilities and realities that should be examined as we go forward. As I said in that post, all of us bear some responsibility for the current state of affairs. Since that post, there seems to beContinue reading “The Death of Music Scenes (and what we can do about it)”
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Current Music Realities: And what we can do about it as musicians, club owners, and fans (Part 1)
I hear a lot of complaints and have been guilty of going down the same road myself. All of us connected to music scenes and communities around the country see many of the same things. Here are just a few topics being discussed: For background on some of these things, here are a couple ofContinue reading “Current Music Realities: And what we can do about it as musicians, club owners, and fans (Part 1)”
“Rock is Dead” and Other Myths and Prejudices
Originally published in August 2019 (updated 2023) (Note: When I first published this article on the blog page from my band Big Road, I was responding to criticism and a certain prejudice I was hearing from many other musicians, who were complaining about the state of music today and justifying why they didn’t listen toContinue reading ““Rock is Dead” and Other Myths and Prejudices”