Am I missin somethin?

Music for quite some time now IMHO has become more of a performance art form which seemed to me Madonna started, there may have been others before her yet she seemed to be the seed. It was no longer a dedicated band of members who actually wrote and performed songs and through the years progressed dramatically, each album that came out was completely different than the one before and I as well as many looked forward to this, what are they going to do next.

For a while now these so called performance bands try to out do what each has done. Not through the means of the song rather through how far they will go to look different or hit a higher note , holding a note longer. This sort of thing is not music. I never turn on the radio in my car , ever.

It could be so much has been done through the years of great music the direction has had to be changed to appeal to younger generations. There are still some musicians and bands who have the talent to appeal to older generations they do seem to be a dying breed. Some younger generations heard their parents music and realized what they missed and are now into it.

I hear names of the new groups and never heard of them , have no idea who they are.

When I lived in IL we had great radio , we had a chart WLS called the silver dollar survey with what bands and songs were in the top of the charts. Every music shop and drug store of that time had them for free. It was just a card.

I hear a few a very few songs I like that are new. Most are so bad you can't unhear them for days.

The 4 members of my first band new I was into the Beatles and when the single with Rain and paper back writer came out said to me , well what do you think of them now, I said Rain is really a great song , it's different and it's a song of truth if one listens to the words, it still holds up. Plus every band was so different , so many styles all so much to listen to.

MTV may have been a mistake yet I still would watch it because one got a mini concert and a visual plus many great bands and songs. That was now long ago, in the past.

I'm just glad I was around when you still had a radio and could hear big band music and blues and rock and roll and countless great bands that came out in the 60's.There was variety , something that seems to have been lost.

Haven't turned my truck radio on in over a year. Finally had cable tv disconnected this past week. Between sickening music and extreme politics I can find nothing worthwhile to watch or listen to on anything mainstream. CD's and a few youtube channels are all that's tolerable these days

ancient1,

Don't ever think I've turned my car radio on, had the car foe eight years, never had cable TV, have something called free view, about 45 stations free, it's the TV licence I dislike buying £145 a year or something like that.
Only watch TV about an hour a day if that.

The Eagles where one of a kind, my grandkids will be listening them them as adults.  Marshal Tucker band was good and the Allman brothers will never be replaced.

Brad Paisley and Keith Urban are pretty good behind six strings.

Brad was a child prodigy and I have seen some old stuff from Keith when he was still playing bars.

I think right now Chris Stapleton is the man to beat for song writing and musical talent on the country side of things.

TonyKgull, here is a good introduction to Chris and his wife.

But there is so much more. He was in a blue grass group for awhile the Steeldrivers.



Then there is this from the CMA's:

ancient1, seagullplayer,

Think it's the first time I've heard Chris Stapleton, and I like him very much and his guitar playing.

Derick, blues90, ancient1, TonyKgull, seagullplayer,

I may have posted this somewhere here, but, I'd be remiss to not post it in this thread
If this doesn't move you, see a cardiologist!