Who would have thought that a live music experience is so hard to come by in this day and age? Who is to blame? The lack of musicians or venues that turn down bands?
Personally I think it can't be the lack of bands, because there isn't a lack of bands. Maybe a lack of commitment but there is still a handful of bands that stick together. Those bands are the ones that get turned down by venues because the venues only want the bands that are "cool" and attract crowds. Those bands don't last long, they never have.
Live music is becoming rare because of money. Music has become all about money and image and not about music, that's a shame seeing as I make music for the music.
What people don't realise is music is more art than a way of communicating. A guitarist adds a certain type of colour and a bassist adds another. The band as whole writes a piece of art and that gets called a song. What music needs is "galleries" not venues.
Music has always been a form of expressing one self not copying what is on the radio or on the television and Internet. Music needs a rebirth. Where flash photography is allowed to promote originality not laziness.
I hope live music experiences happen more often otherwise it will die, venues will die and music as an art will die but seeing it as a rebirth I hope it's more of a christian rebirth than a reincarnation otherwise it will have to die before it can be reborn.
