http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP4wsURn3rw

interview in the 1980s but even more true today:P

Damn hippies:P

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so true.

true so.

there is no decline, just fluff, no?

Yeah, there are still plenty of people who shred. They're just as unpopular as real musicians have always been.

don't think i have any music that was created after the 80's.

martian - great interview and I agree and disagree with your sentiment.

In terms of the commercial music industry it is very mush relevant. Musicians in the popular scene are very much packaged to a product to appeal to a certain marketplace. It sucks but people like Justin Bieber will always be marketed becuase the 10-15 year old girls will gobble that sort of stuff up.

But, the technology available to 'cheaply' set up a reasonable home-studio and the internet means that many musicians are able to get their music out ther, bought, downloaded than before. So, in some ways the old guys that go 'I dont know lets try it' have been replaced by the semi-underground music scenes that pop up on the internet.

I also know in Melbourne (the awesomest city in Oz) there is the beginnings of a move away from the higly produced fluff that get marketed to teenage girls and back to a more organic music sound. Fingers crossed it takes off.

you were making sense till you got to calling melbourne awesome...

londwell: Actually KISS is a perfect example of your argument (regarding marketting). In fact I would say that with things like youtube it makes accessing underground music easier. Also there are semi main stream bands out there now (like disturbed and avenged sevenfold) that I like. I think it's easier to do with music than with television entertainment though.

So what he's saying is we should kill all of the hippies so we can get better music?

we're not declining... we're Flatlining... it was declining in his time... its been awhile :-P

In terms of the radio friendly 'POP' stuff that they are pushing today, it has gone far beyond flatlining and is now rotten and stinking.
But there is some good music out there, just have to spend a little time looking for it. Youtube is a great place to start.

thats where I go to watch my favorite artists.

jjj ftw