Is this the worst music-related blog post of the year?
From a blog which claims to be “First in Music Analysis, Lefsetz Letter we get this post about the concert business.
Maybe no one cares to the equivalent of a multiplatinum level anymore. Maybe the live business has to give that paradigm up. At least for a decade, until new acts are grown.
We want music that resonates. And we want music. Lady GaGa is outfits. Katy Perry is so second rate she’s third rate. The future looks more like the Kings Of Leon. A band that’s been around for years that finally breaks through. And doesn’t break the bank when it sets ticket prices.
Screw lawn tickets at a discount. That’s like listening to music on your neighbor’s stereo. How about getting a ticket for a developing artists show when you buy the ticket for a star. We’ve got to get people sampling, we’ve got to get people coming to the show on a regular basis.
Since the post doesn’t allow comments, I’ll respond here. Has it really not occurred to this guy to go out find music by himself rather than be a passive consumer of whatever is served up by the corporate biz? There’s plenty of great music out there. Every genre you can imagine and many more you can’t - you just have to look for it for yourself rather than wait to be spoon-fed.
Go and read a few music blogs; listen to last.fm, network online with other music fans. You might even make a few new friends that way. Once you’ve realised there’s more to music than the narrow commercial mainstream you can go to club venues and see great bands for a fraction of the one-gig-a-year price for some has-been at a corporate enormodome.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I would far rather see a good local (even if not “local” to me) band at a club than anyone at a giant dome. And yes, usually a lot cheaper.
But lately I haven’t been having much luck finding new music that I like — there’s a local radio station that occasionally plays some local stuff (some of which is great, went to a show in May that was really fun), but I don’t seem to have the time for music that I did as a kid. (Also when I was a teenager there was a really cool radio show on a local co-op station that introduced me to lots of new-to-me bands. Nothing like that around here now.)