Tuesday, July 27, 2010

the good old days

This may make me seem and sound like curmudgeonly old man, but I miss the days when the only way someone found out about a show/concert was either being handed a flyer (for smaller/DIY shows) or looking at listings in The Village Voice (for larger-scale small shows or big "concerts"). When one would go to the record store with some hard earned cash and actually LOOKED for new records to be turned on to. When someone made a flyer with a marker, scissors, glue and a photocopier.

Granted, I love, endorse and utilize the new technology to the fullest. The internet, Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, photoshop, etc. have all been a gigantic help making getting your name to, potentially, an entire planet of people in mere seconds. But at what price? It's too easy now to make a name for yourself. The passion that I knew as a youngin "coming up" in "the scene" just doesn't exist in what I see in today's music scene anymore. Ok, that's not exactly fair, there will always be SOME sort of passion involved in smaller/DIY circles of music, but it's definitely not the kind I saw as a kid. These kids have it too easy.

The world has shrunk exponentially. Reach out and touch someone.

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