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Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Don Tillman <don@...> wrote:
> Listen to what's out there; there's very little new music of any
substance worth getting excited about.
I think that there's still a lot of great new music out there, but
it's very hard to find. All of the alternative FM radio stations and
DJ's have disappeared. Radio stations (that aren't classic rock) are
currently playing The Killers, Green Day and My Chemical Romance until
we all want to barf. I think that these are good bands, but FREQUENT
airplay turns it into disposable music fast.
> it's really hard to name a single recent musician who's made a
serious statement on their instrument.
True. They are still out there but they are hidden under piles of
shit. We didn't need to hunt and dig for it in the past. The good
non-mainstream stuff WAS easy to find at the store. The competition
for shelf-space in the stores is part of the problem. With DVD's,
video and computer games, tons of old classic rock CD's, there's NO
space for any slow selling new music CD's.
If it's not on the radio and it's not in the stores, then how do you
find it? Searching through piles of shit on the internet?
Clay