I'm gonna put these thoughts in the second post so nobody tl;dr's me

back in the day musicians got together with people they met in town, or guys that answered an ad in the paper, threw a band together, and had to pay an arm and a leg to get recorded and get their music out.

these days, instruments are better and cheaper than they used to be, you can learn whatever instrument easily on the internet, and you have a million ways of finding bandmates. and once you do all that, you can get essentially the same quality of recording equipment the great musicians recorded on for cheap off ebay, record yourself, put your music up so anyone can hear it, and some people might even pay you

these days anybody can learn to play, form a band, record and distribute their music for nearly free.

the great bands of the past had to squeeze together money for instruments, basically had to teach themselves to play or learn from somebody else, form a band with people they pretty much already knew, then pay thousands upon thousands to record and distribute their music. music used to be a full time job and a big chance and sacrifice to make to pursue a career in

these days anybody can make music and be heard, so where is all the great music?

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Posted by genxtiger

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Posted on 5/3/12 at 2:04 pm to el Gaucho

There will be bands from our time that will be remembered as greats. Time twists things in funny ways. Get over it Gaucho.

also, stop listening to the radio

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Posted by SUB

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Posted on 5/3/12 at 2:47 pm to el Gaucho

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these days, instruments are better and cheaper than they used to be, you can learn whatever instrument easily on the internet, and you have a million ways of finding bandmates. and once you do all that, you can get essentially the same quality of recording equipment the great musicians recorded on for cheap off ebay, record yourself, put your music up so anyone can hear it, and some people might even pay you

these days anybody can learn to play, form a band, record and distribute their music for nearly free.

the great bands of the past had to squeeze together money for instruments, basically had to teach themselves to play or learn from somebody else, form a band with people they pretty much already knew, then pay thousands upon thousands to record and distribute their music. music used to be a full time job and a big chance and sacrifice to make to pursue a career in

If I read this without reading the subject of the thread, I would have thought you were arguing about why music is so much better today. How can you say that because people had few resources to learn and play music automatically makes them better? It definitely made it harder to become good and the people that were good were maybe more resilient, but that makes it seem like music would be worse overall.

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these days anybody can make music and be heard, so where is all the great music?

You have to look for them with an open mind. There's never going to be another Zeppelin. If you're expecting that, or any of the other bands you listed, then there is no hope for you.

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