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Father Time
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8/1/2020 8:40:41 PM
Is it possible to awaken the numb?
A lot of the people I come in contact with are so single-minded it seems even the thought of listening to music is a realm which they do not dwell.
Can you awaken people from the rockless void?
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Richard Scotti
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8/2/2020 10:40:01 AM
---- Updated 8/7/2020 6:14:04 PM
I think it’s possible but current events make it quite difficult. People are preoccupied with job security, health concerns, the upcoming election and all the rest of this insane time frame. But the decline in popularity of music started long before the present situation. There’s so much competition for our eyes and ears. All we can do is try and make the best music we are capable of and put it out there for all to hear. The better the music the more chance it will rise to the top and penetrate through the numbness.
I feel like real time has stopped and we’re in a state of suspended animation. When time resumes someday people will be more open to the joys of real life.
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Stoneman
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8/7/2020 2:46:34 AM
Yes, exactly what he said.............
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Bob Elliott
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8/7/2020 2:50:12 AM
I just don’t know hardly anybody not into music in some style or other.
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Bob Elliott
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8/7/2020 6:59:48 PM
I mean, you and others frequently post that the importance of music has diminished, but I just don’t see that it has. People are always listening to music, in public, on their headphones, in places of biz..everywhere, and anyone can tell you their favorite stuff, too. Old people, young people, middle aged...
Who is it you people are seeing who don’t listen to music?
Shoot. Just mention Old Town Road to a five year old.
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Larree
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8/7/2020 7:07:13 PM
I think people are just overwhelmed, and they tune it out. I rarely ask people to listen to me anymore. And when I do, I almost feel like a beggar in a foreign land with my empty hand outstretched towards the rich tourist. "Oh please, please. I beg you to listen. It's really good."
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Bob Elliott
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8/7/2020 7:09:39 PM
To call them numb, like we have ears and they don’t seems like a fantasy. They often won’t be into what you’re into, but they’re all into something.
Due to my job, I know hundreds of kids. Pretty rare kid that has no desire to hear music. And most kids know quite a bit of music that is not from their time, too.
Connecting with music is a biologically built in human trait, and it continues.
Certainly people pay much less for music, but that’s because they can. Paying less when possible is also a built in human trait.
TikTok , for example, is wildly popular, and mostly made up of videos of people dancing to music.
If what you really mean is that the importance of rock has diminished, that’s for sure, but even classic rock that deserves to diminish is widely known by the younger generations.
Is it tough to get them to look into our music that we make? Sure. But that’s always been true, and being a recluse, I like that I can get a few listeners online.
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Bob Elliott
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8/7/2020 7:12:09 PM
Just because someone doesn’t listen to my music doesn’t mean they don’t listen to music.
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Larree
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8/7/2020 7:16:27 PM
... and, what Richard said.
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Larree
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8/7/2020 7:19:57 PM
I think someone hacked Stoneman's account. I am almost certain of it!
I mean, five words? Just five words?! No way is that Stoneman!
lol, j/k! :)
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Larree
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8/7/2020 7:23:53 PM
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Bob, I think people are numb right now. Look at this crazy world. Live sports played for cardboard cutouts? Empty comedy clubs and no laughter? No concerts or live music anywhere? Everything from rock, rap, and country; to classical, opera, and jazz - silenced! It's as if the Blue Meanies won the war. Yes, people are numb.
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Father Time
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8/8/2020 12:17:54 AM
Bob I spend a lot of time in the online trenches and at least 95% of everyone are completely not inclined to click on any music link.
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Bob Elliott
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8/8/2020 3:10:30 AM
So true, but while they are sitting there disinclined, they’ve got their music on.
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Father Time
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8/8/2020 7:01:18 AM
nah that would mess with their concentration.
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Larree
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8/8/2020 5:27:33 PM
I'm sure people listen sometimes - but most are afraid to venture out of their comfort zones. And some just get bombarded with so many listen to requests that they will not listen to any of it.
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Bob Elliott
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8/8/2020 6:09:46 PM
I grant that it’s very difficult to get people to listen to OUR music. I don’t think it indicates that people are any less interested in music than at other times. I don’t see any evidence of that at all.
Just the other day at the grocery store the music’s on, I hear customers singing to it. I go to check out, twenty something cashier unprompted starts telling me how her mom raised her on Nickleback and Garth Brooks but also big hair bands. This prompts guy behind me to start talking about how he’d seen Rod Stewart live...
Electrician out here the other day, Rage Against the Machine blasting in the truck. He asks me if I know who the first rock star was.
Chuck Berry?
No, Hank Williams
So I put on a Hank Williams Pandora station for him to hear while he works. This youngish buck knows all the words to all these old country tunes
I can hear neighbors at night singing tunes by their campfire
My 2 year old granddaughter can’t get enough of dancing to music.
My kids and all their cousins listen to music old and new all day long
My father is trying to relearn Beethoven at the piano
The whole world loves Hamilton
Music remains strong in everyone’s hearts. Cardi B is a superstar
New music flows out every week, lots of it creative, lots of it banal
The problem you’re referencing is that people don’t want to click on OUR music or music we ask them to click on, but that’s a way different problem than saying the world has begun to devalue music.
Someone told me to check out Tool’s first EP the other day. Maybe I will, probably I won’t. Like just about everyone, I like to pick for myself.
No disrespect to Tool. I think they’re creative, but I only listen a little to that type thing.
My mother-in-law listens to great Mexican music day and night.
Everybody’s got their own jams.
Had a five year old student last year went around singing “Godzilla” all day long.
If I sing one phrase of “Let it Go” 15 little girls will finish the song while a whole bunch of little boys cover their ears.
Every year our talent show is packed with good little singers and dancers.
Any time there is a good band teacher the classes swell to capacity.
Music thrives.
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The CODE
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8/8/2020 8:03:52 PM
Must admit that I agree with Bob on this one!
Music is everywhere, and most folks are grooving
to one thing or another, personal choice prevails!
If you want clicks to your tracks, well you gotta earn it!
Just putting it out there does not mean it deserves any
attention, 'you gotta roll with it' as the 'Mancs' once said!!!
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Father Time
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8/8/2020 10:02:58 PM
You don't understand. These people start out not knowing I have a band. I feell them out about music in general and there is no enthusiasm to speak of except for about 10 percent really vocal folks.
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