There's tons of great music out there it's just that the music industry seem to be too busy perpetrating some of the absolute worst "music" ever created.
I agree! There's some great stuff coming out. It just takes a bit of effort to find. I use rateyourmusic to find good new music. It's a great resource, if a little rockist on the top album charts, but hey... I love rock!
Radio stations ,at least the ones here in Hampton Roads Virginia ,have gotten lazy and spin the same garbage and only play what’s popular. The hard rock stations just seem to default to the lowest common denominator in the industry,ie Green Day ,Guns and Roses,Godsmack,Five Finger,Disturbed on heavy rotation. Ughhhhh. You have to go searching.
I actually had people refuse to buy my bands CD at a show and tell me, to my face, "I'll get it off Napster or whatever later." or "I need that five bucks! I want more beer!" Jesus, people are assholes...
AMEN BROTHER PETE !!! My wife and I just watched this and was applauding you the whole time! Music is our passion, blood, muscle, air, water, Sustenance! We have many friends who just don't get us at all. I feel that the biggest problem that has happened is digital music has made music into ones and zeros, it no longer has a physical substance thereby giving it no value. So people just dont care for it like they used to, with the exception of us music freaks who still savor the music coming out. Its beyond sad out there.
I am 56 years old and I am glad vinyl has made a comeback. I still like the physical media. Stuck in the sixties and seventies. Listening to Spotify means you have air, nothing physical. No album cover i your hand. Just air Going to a record store was a happening. Man ...... I am getting pld.
@@markc5771 Why trap yourself in a bubble, there is so much amazing music, rock and metal in particular from the 90s forward. Its going to be different but you might just have to acquire a new taste.
@@markc5771 I think you're right. Music lost its mojo around then. Saying that doesn't mean that I don't listen to select music after that period because I do. It simply means that the best music was from before then as you stated. Cheers.
I’m 23, and I use to think I grew up in the wrong generation because I can’t find new bands I like. But I realized I’m very lucky because all that music IS new to me.
There is actually a lot of fantastic new artists nowdays. Arguably a bunch of new artists better than those past artists that people like you love. You just got to go out and look for it now. Also, mentioned in another comment, there are multiple record stores are still around. Vinyls have had a resurgence lately and are on pace now to outsell CDs for the first time since the 80s
There is ridiculously great talent out there now. Check out Jason Collier. Pentatonics, probably the best vocal group I've ever heard, and I'm old. Zac Brown Band. Sarah Jarosz. Amos Lee. Alabama Shakes. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. It goes on and on. I like Camila Cabello in the pop realm. M&M is amazing, gives Dylan a run for his money. If you're just listening to The radio in your car I can understand why you think the way you do, but honestly, so much great stuff sees the light of day now that never would have back in the 70s and 80s when it was all controlled.
Brad Hardisty the trouble is that vinyl is treated like red wine now,albums going for 50 bucks,you can get some great bargains through cd imo,Tull have been bringing out remastered cds in 24 bit and 5.1 with big booklets detailing the history of the recording and the band at that time.Having said that,buying one record that you grow to absolutely love,stays with you for life,that 50 bucks starts looking like a huge bargain when you consider that record you bought that you love,will stay with you for life until you scratch it and buy another copy lol. Cds are incredibly cheap,the prog stuff can be bought for way cheap.
I admit to being guilty of not buying music, I just use UA-cam for the most part but I am constantly listening to music I’ve never heard and albums and artists etc. I am starting up a CD collection so I can give the bands their due. You’ve introduced me to countless artists that I now love. Lucky for me I am only 19 and have plenty of time in the future to listen to plenty of older artists and new music that interests me. Keep it up Pete, love your videos.
I still buy new CD's from my 80's metal bands on Amazon or the bands' website. I fill in holes in my collection from eBay. I cannot afford to go to major concerts anymore, let alone take a date or get a t-shirt. Ticket prices are outrageous. I'll see a band at a small club though. Much more fun, and I don't feel like I'm getting robbed. As a music fan who still buys (not streams) new music, I guess I'm an old fossil these days. I miss the old record store at the mall too.
Yeah, great point. There is plenty less disposable cash globally than there was a generation or 2 ago. I mean we are in the biggest Capitalist crisis agrueablely ever so it must be noted.
Vinyl still my favorite format. I'm 62 years old. The problem is when I was young a lot of kids did not take care of their vinyl. I always did and it still my favorite way to listen to music.
As a university educated musicologist I agree with you on the state of today's music industry,,,,I did a thesis back in the 70's on the power of radio and the rapid decline of radio stations,,,,I had a late night radio show in Toronto and I played a lot of what some would consider non-mainstream music...I gave airtime to many prog bands that people never heard of but they learned to love them in time,,,,Radio DJ's and program managers were the most powerful people in music but the writing was soon on the wall when Napster was being formed...Many record labels held the bands hostage starting back in the 50's,,,in order to pay for their recording debt they were forced to go on the road....The Allman Brothers were forced to go on the road for 300 plus days in order to pay off their Capricorn bill. One thing also are the Mp3 UA-cam convertors where people can transfer an album for nothing
My favorite thing he said was,"When did we decide that music should be free","I don't want to buy CDs anymore,I want it for free"...…..you got to pay for cable ,going to the movies,dining out,,,,same thing,....it's the so called "fans" who destroyed the music business,with downloading,now its too late ,....you should WANT TO pay for music...….downloaders SUCK
The first album I bought was Stormbringer by Deep Purple in 1976. My first DP album. Then I bought all their albums in the 70s. BUT I had never heard of Captain Beyond until your video last week. I checked out the album, and it's great. So thanks for that Pete.
This is what's great about channels like this, some bands can pass you by while you're growing up, but thankfully Pete and others like him give us a chance to get into them later in life. I'm now a huge fan of Gentle Giant and Renaissance, who I totally missed back in the day. Better late than never :-)
@Hitler was Vegan No. Never seen them. After Blackmore left I never really followed them that much. I've seen all the members of DP in other bands, but never as Deep Purple.
The album they did with Tommy Bolin, ‘Come Taste The Band’, is very underrated. They have made some good albums since 1984 and with Steve Morse. It’s worth checking them out. They are/were still a great band without Blackmore. Really.
I’ve seen some great live rock bands over the last decade who have never came within a sniff of a record deal ,my heart breaks for them and for the kids who are being fed the pap today . Thank goodness for ghost they have been a breath of fresh air 🤘🏻
Right now music is a playlist Pete. When I was younger, one went to a record store. Paid for an album and went home. Opened the plastic and then a while experience started. The smell, the artwork, the lyrics, physically holding the record and finally the music. Thought about this as a result of your rant. The thing that for me is the biggest killer is the invention on the headset. Music is now a one person consumption item.
As a young person who discovered and dove deep into rock and metal about a year or two, I think apps like Spotify can be used as tools to really expand the music you listen to. Think about it. There's countless ways to discover artists, either through playlists, the discovery week, or just searching through names and get familiar. It's all about how you use it. It doesn't matter if you are a kid in the 70's buying the new Aerosmith LP or "saving" their albums on your phone and listening to them on the go. Obviously with Spotify and other apps, it's really easy to just loop your own favourite songs and rarely venture out of that you listen to, but if you have the curiosity and patience like I did one fateful day, it can be a really rewarding experience.
I'm 58 and discovered your channel 6 years ago. Thanks for a lot of finds I would never hear anywhere else e.g. "Tomorrow's Eve, Tiles,Riverside," and so many more. My family and friends think I'm nuts but I've also gone back to buying cd's. It's just the right thing to do.
Pete, I'm 60 years old and I guess I am one of those people stuck in the comfort zone of the 1970's and I like it. I believe most people my age enjoy that music and it brings them back to a time when they were in their late teens or early 20's and they may have their best memories back then when their responsibilities were less. We were younger and freer. Then the 80's comes along and life gets in the way with spouses and children and so forth. And there were TONS of different musical styles back then to choose from. But, I do appreciate that you keep everyone informed on the new and challenging music. Rock On !!
Thanks to you Pete I'm bought albums from the Sons of Apollo, Rival Sons, Anathema and the revamped Queensryche. Much appreciated as I'm hugely enjoying them.
Thank you so very much for this, Pete. As a guy in a band that makes music "like that anymore"; one of the biggest discouragements isn't the fact that we can't earn a decent dollar; it's that we can't even get people to be interested at all in hearing it. At all. We work so hard; searching, promoting, talking to people, advertising, etc., this BEYOND the work of making the music live up to be as much as it can. But the 2000+ people who will go drop $75 to see a big band from the 70's won't even give us the time of day in 2019, and i don't know why. You reviewed us recently, for which we're immensely grateful, so i know it ain't that we're "not good" (whatever that entails now. i don't even know anymore). We don't need to get paid huge; what we need most is just someone to care. The wall of blank indifference we face (while it doesn't faze the boss, he's gonna do what he was born to) is crushingly discouraging. And there's no way on to "the spoon" for us, that i can see. Guys like you are worth more than gold to us; but we need many more of you if we're gonna survive. The thing about supporting small bands today is, unlike King Crimson or Yes, you're not just a number to us. And sometimes your encouragement (and a good "house" at our shows) means more than the money we get when the night's over, bc it lasts longer. We can't feed ourselves forever, like you said. Much respect. -"shaggy"
I agree with so much of what you’re saying, but I think my problem with the music scene of today is that it just doesn’t resonate with the wider culture in the way it used to. In the U.K. in the ‘70s and ‘80s, weekly music papers like the New Musical Express (NME) and Melody Maker were crucial in forming and influencing my tastes. Someone wrote about Little Feat and happened to mention Ry Cooder. Ry? What kind of a name is that? Pretty cool though, I’ll check him out. Similarly the radio stations played a real variety of music because the charts were full of every style of music imaginable. And the bands that made it big really changed the world at large, changed the way people thought, behaved and dressed. It was never just about the music for me. It was also about album covers, eccentric personalities, deviant behaviour, rebellion, sticking two fingers up at authority. The sad fact is that the music has been a business for a very long time now and businesses often suck the life out of the things they promote. The glory years from 1965-1975 were partly glorious because it was all new, the rules hadn’t been written yet and bands and record companies were basically winging it. There may be good bands out there but if all they do is release a download and play a few shows, that’s not enough for me. I want a music scene that truly *matters* and I think the world has changed so much that I’m not sure it really does anymore.
Agree. Music was our lives then. Now kids have more options. And they somehow listen on their phones. Each generation is different. Baseball was everything to my Dad and his generation. I haven't watched a game in years.
Yes you expressed many of my thoughts while I was watching Pete's rant. The cultural thing of disposable and essentially valueless stuff - including music - is a big factor. I used to work in an office where so many people were working away on some tech stuff on their computers, but earbuds in, listening (or just being aware of) whatever music. A shallow experience compared to actually making a point of listening to an album. Sort of fits in with the cultural norms and maybe a lot of music produced today is perfectly undemanding and predictable because it fits that niche. Music for listeners who don't really want to spend time and effort listening to a track 3 or 4 times before they really get it. Instantly acceptable, instantly forgettable. I am 60ish and as guilty as anyone of listening mostly to older music, but the disappearance of the record company model of supporting a band or artist through years of touring, learning their craft, just growing and developing....that must have been a big factor in producing such a bounty of astonishing music in the 60s to the 80s. Just an opinion, and this is such a massive subject which I have bored friends with myself quite often. Great video rant by Pete.
Maybe it was partly due to the cold war, like the Cultural/ idealoigical war between the USA & the USSR & the individualistic life style the likes of Rock n Róll represented.
Yeah, I always tell my parents how I wish I could go back in the 90's at least. I was born in 2005. I still buy CD'S when I can, but everyone questions, I don't give two craps man, I love 80's thrash and 90's death metal, and it would be cool to go back and see what the scene was at the peak. Great video brother!
As a music fan from back in the 70s I still like physical product. I used to buy vinyl LPs, sometimes several in one go and carried on collecting them. CDs too. Even when I buy a CD from amazon and am told I can download it, I never do. I like to play the album as a whole as a physical piece of property. I still buy new CDs by older bands and like to investigate new bands who play the kind of classic rock I like. I love your shows detailing obscure older bands and have been turned on to some great stuff by your shows. I also love your reviews of newer bands product. We found a lot of stuff in the past by word of mouth from friends when we would get together as friends to listen to music and myself and my friends even though we are now in our 50s and 60s still do this and turn each other onto stuff. Word of mouth and personal recommendations are still a powerful tool for finding new music.
@@peteh7966 even the cassettes had the cover you could unfold and read the notes, they were smaller, obviously, but I used love laying the LP on turntable, it just had more substance and feeling to it, nothing against cassettes or CDs for that matter, they both have their charm. CDs didn't wear out.
Good question: Why did I start watching this show? Believe it or not, it has been part of my research for a novel I finished writing a couple of months ago. One of the characters, a teenager is an expert of 70's rock. Heck, you helped a lot, Pete!
@Joe Metal Head I knew Martin Birch personally for a few years, we lived in the same village (not mentioning the name on here). Believe me, he did a lot more than you'd imagine. Especially for Iron Maiden for example.
@Joe Metal Head He was a very private man, and I wouldn't share on here with dick heads like you. I've passed on my thoughts to his family in Sussex and will leave at that.
The greatest thing about the internet was how it expanded what I can listen to and find now and it started with my buddy he had a computer and was hip to Napster. But your right bands like Earthless are newer and wouldn't know of without this channel
I'm with you Pete. I'm 63. I remember the afternoons spent just leafing through albums at my local record stores. Some of the assistants working in the stores would put on albums. While you were looking through the albums you were being exposed to what albums were being played. Some of my favourite bands, I got to hear first while searching through the albums, and they were being played in the background. Eventually you would find an album you wanted to buy, and as you were making your purchase you would enquire what had been playing. I discovered Gong that way. I immediately bought Radio Gnome Invisible and Angel's Egg. The first time I heard Zappa was as I was leafing through the albums. Both Zappa and Gong have played a huge part in my music listening. I must admit I like just playing potluck on UA-cam, where listening to one band will lead you to click on a related recommendation. I listen to lots of modern stoner and psychedelic stuff, loads of modern blues, loads of post rock, loads of prog jazz. The one area where I'm deficient is heavy rock, and metal, of the late eighties through to the late nineties. For some reason I just don't like it. I like earlier and later stuff, no problem. Recent albums I've bought are by:- Children Of The Sun, Java, Captives Of The Void, Baba Naga, Earthless, Earth, Radar Men From The Moon, Space Debris, Stoned Earth, the Heavy Eyes, Solar Corona, My Brother The Wind, My Sleeping Karma, Velvet Trip, Tia Carerra, Grandloom,
WellI really enjoyed your rant. Now I'm going to have to go check out the rest of your channel. I remember on Friday nights going down to the Sound Shop and flipping through all of the new albums. Watching for the posters to come up for the next upcoming concerts in the area. I still like having physical media, and have even started buying some LPs here lately.
I recently read an interesting quote which said, " its nice to look at nostalgia but you don't want to get caught staring at it". There are plenty of choices for newer bands and music but you have to seek them out. The internet is a tool for this however a growing number of society has become the tool.Your thoughts on Prog are exactly like mine. Love the video and you make excellent points as usual.
Pete totally agreed with your assessment-we are spoon fed sheep- im 60 yrs. old and grew up with the greatest time in rock music just like yourself. Radio is so bad today that we only hear the usual songs from our favorite bands instead of the deeper cuts that a lot of us would like to hear. For me, i have a very extensive music collection like yourself so i dont have a problem with listening to what i like. There is still great music out there but you have to be seekers of it in order to find it. Todays culture is so absent of how we grew up that we may never see the music business the way it used to be. There are great young musicians out there and Pete you know there's great music still being made, you just have to find it. Maybe one day we will see a resurgence of classic rock type music but as the sheep go they will push themselves toward what's fed to them. Thank Pete and looking forward to classic live album wars. Ciao.
i'm 51yo pete and i dig where your comin' from brother!!! i truly miss the not so old days of hangin' out in the record store and we were all always so stoked with anticipation of new physical releases to hits the racks which was more fun than just having so much at your fingertips. same way with concert tickets back in the day-standing in line half the night in the sub-zero cold to try to get the best general admission seats we could. i still remember our downtown plaza which back then in the very early 80's was pretty baron but this older weird dude had a little music store with odd imports ,buttons,patches,posters and all that great shit WHERE i learned of this band called Dokken and an underground thrash metal band called Metallica for the first time and had my ass kicked really good! GOD!!! those were such great days!!!!!!!!!! i could go on and on and on BUT you know exactly what i mean brother.....
I agree with you 100% Pete! I went to a drum clinic a little while back and Tommy Aldridge was the star drummer at the clinic! He mentioned exactly what you said “ just because your told something is a hit song doesn’t mean you should or have to listen to it!” Most “hit” songs are by artists that are just terrible, really terrible with a 3 month shelf life and the song is forgotten! I agree to seek good music out! A band I really enjoy now ( saw them in Toronto last July) is Pineapple thief with Gavin Harrison on drums ( one of my faves) great band and show! Always enjoy your commentary Pete!!
Thank you Thank you.... I love and watch everyone of your what’s hot, new release shows... Bought so much cool stuff since I found your channel. The people who were happy with a transistor radio in the house and whatever is on the car radio, in the 70s, are the same people happy with a Spotify play list of 50 songs. Lazy. Great music out there.... Look for it, people 🎶🤘
Preaching to the choir here! I blame my generation (50+). They can wax poetic about a record from 50 years ago but couldn’t name a new band out there that wasn’t named Greta Van Fleet. They know more about lawn fertilizer than they care about music.
I know that this is a pre- Covid post. But I really appreciated it. I was a working musician for 35 years. Starting in 2002. I started to go broke but never stopped. After my divorce, I need some time personally to get back to breathing But, after I stepped off of the road. I began to listen as a fan again. To listen, to pause and really listen to music and new album releases by my old favorites and discovered many new favorites. The industry will break your heart. But, the essence, the music will fill it. Keep digging in the virtual and the deeply rich crates if great music. From all of the eras. Thanks again Pete. Great rant.
I love going out and finding stuff whether it's music, dvds/blu-rays, comics or t-shirts! I still get that thrill for going on an adventure and locating the things that I love.
I still love my classic rock, and hair metal. But I continue to find new groups and artists that catch my attention. For perspective, my all time favorite band is Iron Maiden, while my second favorite band is Papa Roach. About they only thing they have in common, is they both bring it live. Every time. I don't care about genre, or labels, or any of that. All that matters to me, is "Do I like it" First way I find new stuff is by checking out what my kids like. I've been doing that for 20 years now. Mostly, I find new artists by listening to the 2 college radio stations I can pick up in my car. I find so much stuff I never heard anywhere else. Sadly, some of it is a few years old, and I missed the boat on it as the artist isn't around anymore. But still, I discover great things that way. Festival shows are great for finding stuff too. Sometimes I love artists live, but don't care for their studio work. If there are a couple bands on the bill I know I like, and the show is close enough, I go, and get there early enough to take in all the other bands.
This is a beautiful video Pete. Love it. I couldn't agree more. Sidebar: regarding asking about your shirts, we ask because a lot of shirts are hard to find on credible websites.
Just picked up a Sony Cassette/CD player yesterday at goodwill lol all my extra money gets spent on CDs I’m grabbing up all I can while I can lol im 52 and love your videos this was so spot on.You have showed me some great bands that I didn’t know about and I’ve been buying a lot of those CDs ,thank you Pete for all these videos and all your hard work it is so appreciated take care
A band you need to check out is The Warning. Their most recent album, Queen of the Murder Scene, is a stroke of genius! The Warning are an unsigned band. Why, do you ask? They’ve had plenty of offers, under the condition that they play cookie cutter pop music instead of what they want to play, rock. These 3 girls, who are all sisters, turned down every offer from record labels because they want to stay true to themselves. And boy do they rock the world! Ever since I discovered The Warning back last September (my God has it been almost a year?!), it has sparked hope in me for good rock music to return. I’ve bought both of their albums, and there isn’t ONE song I dislike! Not to mention they are almost entirely crowd funded on Patreon, which I myself am a Patron of theirs. Anyway, I’ve rambled on for awhile but I HIGHLY recommend you check out The Warning!
I'm all in here. Nodding along with most of this. I feel that the music industry has been turned on its head. The underground music of the past is now mainstream and vice versa. Back in the day as kids, we used to frequent each others houses & share our music tastes and knowledge. I still go to friends homes sharing my loves, educating the ears. One friend still buys music magazines and these carry a variety of new stuff. Because of this I've enjoyed Black Stone Cherry, Black Country Communion & I'm currently getting into Steven Wilsons' solo works. So you can still hard or prog rock 🎶 😎 !!
I'd agree Pete. There's a ton of great music out there right now. I'm a child of the '60's and '70's and to me the bands back then were pretty sophisticated and if they taught us anything, the future could be very fertile because they took us on a journey to what is possible. I know my musical taste has widened so far now BECAUSE of those early bands. My trip took me into some wild territory through contemporary jazz, of which the variety seems boundless. Also, I found a perfect engine in itunes suggested/related lists below my original choice...it's more sophisticated than spotifys pathetic 'radio station'...I can do deep searches for new names and bands on the outer limits of what's possible and every day my musical vocabulary widens.
70’s is a treasure trove of awesome music,I still find new 70’s prog bands to listen too from the 70’s,amazing decade. My youth highlight was going to a second hand record store and buying tons of prog vinyl here in Melbourne,Australia because noone bought it here so it was cheap to buy,have U.S. pressings of Larks from that store,it carried alot of imported pressings for dirt cheap,then I’d pop in for a coffee down a dark scenic laneway and then head home on the train,simple pleasures in life,now with covid here,I just miss doing that. Ebay is very good for music searching now and sites like Hoffman and all the prog sites,discovered alot of Italian prog that way. I remember as a kid in the 70’s,bands like Mahavishnu and Yes were being played on the turntables and into the store,these days you mostly get top 40 or some indy stuff,70’s for me was like Disneyland,I was high on music and life. Born in ‘66 here,wish I was born in the mid 50’s,I probably would not have made it lol,great music and pubs were thriving in Melbourne in the 70’s the poker machines came in and killed alot of the music scene,also foreigners from China buying up venues and turning them into hotels.
I´m at the same age as you, and maybe we are the last ones paying for our music. I by CDs like never before and of course there is new music that is great. In Sweden we luckily have Sweden Rock Magazine, new issue every month with over 100 pages of reading covering all from AOR/melodic rock/southern rock, prog/hard rock/metal up to death metal. Every issue with more than 50 reviews of new CDs. No problem to find new music. Keep on doing this shows, if you ask me you are worth all the mony in the world for this. You have for example put me back on track with Tull. Hoping to see shows with bands like Arena, City Boy, Axe, Accept, Survivor.
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It’s all about the investment, apart from hardcore fans and music lovers, no one wants to invest in music. By invest, I’m not just talking financially but with their time and with some effort. If you don’t invest in something, that thing starts having no value. It’s especially evident in young people, but it’s not their fault. I have students that are shocked to hear people actually pay for music! “Why would you pay for something you can get for free?” They ask. Also, the old concepts like albums and release dates have almost disappeared, suddenly a bunch of new songs appear, just take your pick. Listening to music used to be an all encompassing experience. From actually holding the music in your hands, to the smell of the album sleeve. The tension that builds from the point you purchased the record, travelling home, unwrapping the sleeve, placing the vinyl on the turntable and then you get the first listen. And we used to listen. Concentrate. Invest more time and effort and the rewards have meaning. We cherished it. We worked for it. It is part of our lives. Most kids these days never do that, and they have no idea what they are missing. Being a music teacher though, I’m glad to say that a few of my students do understand and have made the decision, as now it’s just an option, to get into the vinyl resurgence, and I’m happy they can have the same (almost) experience I had as a kid.
Amen! I’m with you on this. I grew up in the 80’s as well. My brother was 19 in1968 (was in the Air Force) and he was my music guide. His album collection was massive. I spent many hours listening and taping, on cassette, music I liked. We went to a great record store and I got my love of all genres because of him. I have a nice collection of old 45’s, albums and CDs. I still go online and get my stuff. Thank you for posting this!!! You rock! If you don’t know, but I’m sure you do, look up Wings of Pegasus. Fil is awesome.
Born 1985, im now 36...Took me some almost 26 years to actually build a taste in music and build a knowledge of bands and groups i adore. Essentially a Funk, R&B, Soul, Jazz-Funk (Some Disco) lover but branch off onto Rock, Pop and even classical/soundtracks. I find the state of music today such a sad affair. Its not even about getting older and moaning about everything...Music today is actually awful in almost every popular genre. I miss walking into a music store and spending easily 2hrs walking about and building a basket of albums to them listen to over the next weeks. Those were the days!
I'm a 70 ish old guy. I'm old enough to remember and to have played big band era music. My parents generation waited for the big bands to come back. Not my parents though. They evolved with the music. My mother subscribed to Rolling Stone in her 80s and was a big Journey fan. They didn't get stuck in an era, didn't call rock and roll " noise", and loved music all their lives. I like to think I'm the same way. I wish more people my age were like me. They're missing out on great stuff because they're stuck back in their era. No, they didn't stop making great music when you graduated high school. You just weren't there for it.
You and I are the same age. As I said in my previous comment, I use to love to go to the record store and flip through the albums. It was a weekly ritual. My friends and I would be pulling albums out, here check out this band, or that band. Somewhere in the 90's, I got lost. I lost my love for all of that. I basically just listened to my XM radio that played the music I loved in the 70s and 80s. About a year ago, I found The Warning. a young trio out of Mexico that have blown my mind, re-ignited my fire for good rock music, and made me realize the music industry is being reborn, and people still have the fortitude to not bow down to the big labels. Then I found a web radio station, digital revolution radion. They play a lot of indy rock/hard rodk/metal bands. I have found that rock is still alive and well. If you get a little time, you should give The Warning a listen. I'm thinking you would really like their album Queen of the Murder Scene. Check out anything on that album, or if you have about an hour, give the whole thing a listen. It's a concept album. What record label would let 3 teenage sisters do a oncempt hard rock album?
great video, IM 54, and miss those record shop days, finding new bands, from word of mouth from friends, friends older brothers, etc.... Hit Parader, Circus, Creem, ..that's what really turned me onto the great music I still love. My first album was GRAND FUNK LIVE, I was in kindergarten! MY uncle gave it to me, had an extra copy. I was rocking out to ARE YOU READY as my friends were listening to the Monkees or Partridge Family records.
Lately, I'm discovering the hidden treasures in the deep lesser know tracks of the older bands I love. For one, very classic Genesis with Peter Gabriel. Awesome show Pete and enlightening Rockin' Roll Rant!..Cheers!
Totally agree with this rant. I remember the days of hitting the local record stores to see what is new or thumbing through a magazine to find them. The internet and streaming channels have ruined the music industry. I am thankful for your channel in the midst of this though as a way to learn about bands I missed and new bands.
Great rant, Pete. As someone of precisely the same age as you, who has been passionate about music since preteen years, I share your frustrations about the current landscape. The malaise is both sociological and economic. When I was a kid, so many of my contemporaries wanted to be in a band. We cared more about learning to play and write than we did about tv or sports or eating. As all real music starts at the grassroots level, if kids no longer see being a musician as their life’s purpose, we’re going to be short changed, collectively. If Lennon and McCartney had wanted to play soccer, where would the world be? I’d argue that music-making is an intrinsic part of the human experience, but we’ve lost much of that impetus. The reasons are complex, and not for this forum, but it’s a factor. Music is a marketplace like any other, and has supply-side, demand-side, and intermediary/marketing characteristics. All these facets are currently dysfunctional. The supply side has become progressively consolidated by major corporations, who control most of the media-entertainment complex. Decisions have been taken to push certain genres, with others being de-prioritized. A generation of music consumers has been exposed to a very narrow range of music, which has only exacerbated the sociological issues that have operated in parallel. The independent label sector has been under enormous financial pressures for a couple of decades. These labels were always a feeder channel for the majors. The majors no longer have a business model that needs the flow up from the independent sector. The demand side is a significant function of youth culture and exposure. It works symbiotically with the supply side, but it’s almost as though the spigot has been turned to a drip. Once upon a time, it was the intermediaries that were the tastemakers and the route to the marketplace for new music. I grew up in the UK and my go-tos were John Peel, independent record stores, Sounds, Melody Maker, the NME, and the ‘zines. So much of that infrastructure has passed into history, but if people don’t care, you can’t operate the edgy critical platforms that used to introduce us to the next new thing. You’re an exception, and exceptional, but why don’t you have several hundred thousand subscribers? That speaks volumes about the state of the world and its priorities. The internet has only served to make all the economic and sociological factors worse, from the standpoint of disseminating great music to listeners that also supports artists financially. It would be easy to be terminally depressed about what we see, but actually I’m not. I believe that when a life enhancing part of the human condition is suppressed, there will eventually be a grassroots reaction to restore balance. Authentic expressions of what it is to be human will take on corporate cynicism and sterility and its vacuous, disposable product. Music will flower again and the good stuff we see today will represent the remnant of self-starters and true believers that kept the flame burning through the dark age. When that rebirth happens, hope will be vindicated. I’m not going to speculate over dates, but it can’t happen soon enough. The health of any civilization is measurable by its art. We are ill, but we’re not yet dead!
What a thoughful and intelligent post! Your observations are right on! However, I don't share your optimism for the future. I'm 66, and never imagined I'd live to see the world we've got now, in all respects. I think anyone under 50 has now been so brainwashed and dumbed-down by the PTB and their technology, that frankly, I think zombie-ism has become not just cultural and societal, but is now genetic.
I look at the Top 100 and I'm HORRIFIED. I hear any of it while stuck in a waiting room - especially at the doctor's office - and it's like a living hell. All I can think of is: "People think this crap is music?!?"
I could like this video enough times! Pete we’re totally on the same wavelength.There is some GREAT new music out there.Open your ears and your minds people.Keep Rockin man 🤘🏻
came here via Circle Of Tone (shout out to Owen!) and couldn't agree more! one 'tiny' yet great thing about the current state of affairs is that CDs are extremely cheap nowadays for us that like actual physical stuff.... wonderful music for less than a buck or two.... keep up the good work Mr. Pardo!
I’m 62 years old. Last fall my wife decided to buy concert tickets off Groupon to go see Lil’ Wayne and Blink-182. Never have been crazy about Lil’ Wayne or Hip Hop in general, and Blink-182 is passable in my book. So, why not? There was an opening band called “Neck Deep.” Never had heard of them before. They rocked! My wife went down and bought some merch before they were three songs into their set. Ended up leaving half way through Blink-182. I’m old and I had to go to work the next morning! But, Neck Deep was worth it!!
Slipped Disc on Rockaway Ave in Valley Stream , NY...man I miss that place. I remember WASP coming down the street to sign the new album and everyone going wild... so many great bands did signings there. Across the street on the corner was an old movie theater that they converted into a concert venue where they used to have local bands play on a Saturday night... I used to get dropped off there by my mom and spend a few hours watching bands from our neighborhood or the surrounding area. Such great memories.
Good advice, Pete. Also, I recommend looking deeper than what's popular on Spotify, which uses algorithms to determine what gets promoted (and what doesn't). There are lots of great bands out there that don't get promoted by the media, radio or record labels.
Fun story. The last show I ever played was less than a year ago at a bar gig, where all the workers literally expected us to just play for free, and were shocked when we even brought up pay. They told us just to play and we'll discuss pay at the end of the night. We were already there and set up, so we played, show went great, they payed us with "drink tickets" and invited us to come back. I replied with, "Well, we're playing a big house show next month, there's going to be a lot of people, why don't you come bartend for us?" A couple of them were interested, so we exchanged contact info. About a week later, I text one of them about it with a day and time. He replied with "Great! How much is the pay?" I said "Well, why don't show up, bring your tables, glasses, whatever equipment you need, do the show, and we'll discuss pay at the end of the night." Never heard from him again. Music has just simply lost a lot of its value. Sadly, most musicians are so desperate just to play, they'll accept ANY offer. Even if that offer is nothing but just getting to play.
Great rant! Only downloaded albums I have ever had - not available on CD - so I download, transfer to CD and print artwork. Gotta have a physical copy - do not trust streaming or other on-line services to keep my music available. Love looking for stuff - on google and still trawl through CD stores whenever I can
@@nectarinedreams7208 I had purchased some music files (fortunately not too many) before my hard drive crashed. I do have some music on a memory stick (which I ripped from some of my mom's CDs) but I recently tried to listen to them on my brother's computer and they wouldn't play ! What I _was_ able to do was SEE the song titles on the playlist and look up the same songs so I could make a UA-cam playlist. I still prefer CDs to the memory stick, though.
God, you killed it Pete! I keep saying the same thing: we are spoiled with so much so fast stuff that they are killing our curiosity, tolerance and openess! Great Rant...as always!
Great rant! More people with influence need to speak up for the artists. I've been buying music for 50 years and continue to seek and buy great new stuff. Spotify and the like are killing the music industry. You hit it on the head when you asked "who said music should be free"?
Also agree with your take on concerts; people (alot) only want to hear the bands music that the came to hear-blows my mind when i see people going to bathrooms and beer gardens when a band plays a new song from a new album ; or the thoughtless people that are using their cellphone constantly, why are you hear?? Watch the performance not your damn phone. Start supporting these bands buy buying their albums and cd's-not spotify.! Thanks Pete.
I'm 60 and it's always been about exploring and discovering new music for me, from day one back in the early 70s. We had lousy top 40 back then like the lousy popular music of today. But underground FM radio exposed me to new artists making great music and that's how I got my taste for exploration. Today, my "underground FM" is the Google Play streaming service. And when I discover new artists I like (which happens a *lot*), I buy the downloads/CDs/etc. So nothing has really changed in my experience, except the formats. Finding new good music is easier than it ever was. It just comes down to whether you are proactive or reactive: searching vs. being fed whatever the "feed" is sending you.
Thanks. Agree generally with your perspective. I’ve been a Purple fan since the age of 11 in 1969. It looked as if they weren’t going to have a viable ....album-tour-album... career at a certain point but as you will know they turned it around with Now what! a decade or so ago. As a kid I listened to Shostakovich, Mahler and Bach because Blackmore/Lord raved about their music. Purple had an experimental edge. The Concerto for Group and Orchestra (Lord 1969) was and is a fantastic live experience. It was performed in 2012 by students from the Scottish Royal Conservatoire of Music with multiple 5 star reviews in the National press. I love great musicianship in any genre and also experimentation. There are still people pushing the boundaries who are also great performers/artists. I saw. Björk last night on her Cornucopia tour. She could “rock” any stadium with her back catalogue but she chooses to experiment with, at times subtler new music and visuals. She has never compromised. David Sylvian is another true leading edge artist who can really play and write and move an audience to its core. His tour and live album Damage as Sylvian/Fripp (Robert Fripp of King.Crimson) is a masterpiece, displaying how innovation can also be totally engaging to any “rock” oriented listener. Sylvian is now in semi retirement. His first four solo albums engaged me the way Purple did when I was a kid. The Blue Nile were another band who managed to innovate and engage a live audience with never less than stunning performances. Bands like Rival Sons can still produce powerful blues/soul based rock which feels vital and viscerally engaging in 2019. I saw Nick Cave live for the first time last year. Iggy pop is the only performer. I can compare him to. What a visceral moving live experience that was, despite being very rooted in established styles of music. The tragedy is that kids are being brainwashed into thinking that looped beats over samples and spoken/ shouted lyrics about consumerism and narcissism.... is vital/current/creative/ life enhancing. It is, in many cases totally cut off from the vast variety and heritage of music over the past 1000 years (and vastly more ancient ancient, folk/ethnic/tribal music) Music should be central to a child’s education yet it is pushed to the margins in most schools ... and increasing so. Learning an instrument should be a possibility for all children as it develops them in so many ways as human beings. Let’s face it we have had it as a species if we continue to leave the “ education” of our children to the agenda of social media companies and governments who sleep walking have led us into the global crisis.
Hey I'm 15 and I still go to record stores and 95% of what I listen to is classic rock. I don't think that music is bad nowadays I just think the more mindless rap and pop songs are topping the charts, overshadowing the more quality enriched songs. Also, if I find a record interesting I will always pick it up as a cd in store or online. I can't drive so mostly online.
@Joe Metal Head Did he? To me his focus was on Thin Lizzy, not that there were no other bands with their their own style. But if your interpretation is right, I would still disagree. There are lots of band like Thin Lizzy. OK, not like Thin Lizzy but with their own distinct sound. And this is what the video is about. This is Pete's message.
@Joe Metal Head I don't care if we agree or not. You have your taste and i have mine. Fine! You have your opinion and I have mine. If Thin Lizzy is your blueprint for what is good or not, fine with me. If you think you can rip my taste and choices off in a minute, so be it. I don't care much, to be honest. My point isn't that Thin Lizzy wasn't a great band, because they were, and they were amongst my favourites. But when I go to a store to buy a new shirt, I don't buy the same as I had before, just because it was my favourite shirt. I want something new. Not just a copy of the old shirt, no matter how much I loved it. I may even some times dare to challenge my old taste and find something different. Peace!!
Word. 28 years making music, touring , playing in empty halls. I can’t hit the road harder because I have a family and bills to pay. People are usually way off on album sales. New bands are lucky to sell 500 units. Spotify, iTunes and all that killed the artists. Think about who gets paid. And why.
Totaly agree with you, so many great albums came out during the last 20 years. Nice to make new memories with new music and not be stucked in the 70s 80s and 90s.
I'm 56 and I'm still discovering material from the 60s and 70s that is new to me ........ I don't have time for actual new stuff as well, ha ha...... Currently I'm exploring the Dutch scene from the late 60s and 70s, amazing stuff.
I'm 54 years old. Agree, exciting to go in to record shop and going in for latest releases. Found our info from kerrang magazine. Don't know if that was in USA. You had to take a chance on a vinyl but that's what was exciting, didn't know what you were you were getting until you dropped the stylus on it!
I'm a newcomer to this channel and for the week I've been watching it I've already been turned on to some bands I didn't know about or bands that I've always intended to check out better but somehow never got to
I love a Challenge Pete.You make me think and research and listen to both old and new bands that I never heard of.Keep up the Good Work.I'm one of the four people that watch you new release uploads.That's a joke Pete. My point being even if you reach one person and change there thinking it's worth it.
There's tons of great music out there it's just that the music industry seem to be too busy perpetrating some of the absolute worst "music" ever created.
@Ric Rovey
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I agree! There's some great stuff coming out. It just takes a bit of effort to find. I use rateyourmusic to find good new music. It's a great resource, if a little rockist on the top album charts, but hey... I love rock!
Radio stations ,at least the ones here in Hampton Roads Virginia ,have gotten lazy and spin the same garbage and only play what’s popular. The hard rock stations just seem to default to the lowest common denominator in the industry,ie Green Day ,Guns and Roses,Godsmack,Five Finger,Disturbed on heavy rotation. Ughhhhh. You have to go searching.
@Joe Metal Head
I'll bet if you weighed all the musicians making great music it would come to over four thousand pounds.
I actually had people refuse to buy my bands CD at a show and tell me, to my face, "I'll get it off Napster or whatever later." or "I need that five bucks! I want more beer!" Jesus, people are assholes...
AMEN BROTHER PETE !!! My wife and I just watched this and was applauding you the whole time! Music is our passion, blood, muscle, air, water, Sustenance! We have many friends who just don't get us at all. I feel that the biggest problem that has happened is digital music has made music into ones and zeros, it no longer has a physical substance thereby giving it no value. So people just dont care for it like they used to, with the exception of us music freaks who still savor the music coming out. Its beyond sad out there.
I am 56 years old and I am glad vinyl has made a comeback.
I still like the physical media. Stuck in the sixties and seventies.
Listening to Spotify means you have air, nothing physical. No album cover i your hand. Just air
Going to a record store was a happening. Man ...... I am getting pld.
OK Pete, I'm the 60 year old guy stuck in the 70's and 80's you're talking about, I'll now go looking
I'm 50 and I didn't even make it to the eighties. That was the decade of decline.. 1982 is the cutoff
@Reality Check You must not have read your own.
@@markc5771 Why trap yourself in a bubble, there is so much amazing music, rock and metal in particular from the 90s forward. Its going to be different but you might just have to acquire a new taste.
@@dougmcauliffe2253 I didn't trap myself in a bubble; I moved on to other forms of music.
@@markc5771 I think you're right. Music lost its mojo around then. Saying that doesn't mean that I don't listen to select music after that period because I do. It simply means that the best music was from before then as you stated. Cheers.
I’m 23, and I use to think I grew up in the wrong generation because I can’t find new bands I like. But I realized I’m very lucky because all that music IS new to me.
and NEW is GOOD!!!
You have so much to discover. Happy listening
The stuff that passes for so-called talent in the music industry these days is really sad. I am with you I miss record stores.
There are great Record Stores everywhere. Go back to vinyl. Trust me. I started about 2012 and it's been addictive all over again.
Autotune is what passes for talent.
There is actually a lot of fantastic new artists nowdays. Arguably a bunch of new artists better than those past artists that people like you love. You just got to go out and look for it now. Also, mentioned in another comment, there are multiple record stores are still around. Vinyls have had a resurgence lately and are on pace now to outsell CDs for the first time since the 80s
There is ridiculously great talent out there now. Check out Jason Collier. Pentatonics, probably the best vocal group I've ever heard, and I'm old. Zac Brown Band. Sarah Jarosz. Amos Lee. Alabama Shakes. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. It goes on and on. I like Camila Cabello in the pop realm. M&M is amazing, gives Dylan a run for his money. If you're just listening to The radio in your car I can understand why you think the way you do, but honestly, so much great stuff sees the light of day now that never would have back in the 70s and 80s when it was all controlled.
Brad Hardisty the trouble is that vinyl is treated like red wine now,albums going for 50 bucks,you can get some great bargains through cd imo,Tull have been bringing out remastered cds in 24 bit and 5.1 with big booklets detailing the history of the recording and the band at that time.Having said that,buying one record that you grow to absolutely love,stays with you for life,that 50 bucks starts looking like a huge bargain when you consider that record you bought that you love,will stay with you for life until you scratch it and buy another copy lol.
Cds are incredibly cheap,the prog stuff can be bought for way cheap.
I miss the record store. back in the day, I could hit my local record store, or Tower records and be there for hours.
I admit to being guilty of not buying music, I just use UA-cam for the most part but I am constantly listening to music I’ve never heard and albums and artists etc. I am starting up a CD collection so I can give the bands their due. You’ve introduced me to countless artists that I now love. Lucky for me I am only 19 and have plenty of time in the future to listen to plenty of older artists and new music that interests me. Keep it up Pete, love your videos.
I still buy new CD's from my 80's metal bands on Amazon or the bands' website. I fill in holes in my collection from eBay. I cannot afford to go to major concerts anymore, let alone take a date or get a t-shirt. Ticket prices are outrageous. I'll see a band at a small club though. Much more fun, and I don't feel like I'm getting robbed. As a music fan who still buys (not streams) new music, I guess I'm an old fossil these days. I miss the old record store at the mall too.
Yeah, great point. There is plenty less disposable cash globally than there was a generation or 2 ago. I mean we are in the biggest Capitalist crisis agrueablely ever so it must be noted.
Vinyl still my favorite format. I'm 62 years old. The problem is when I was young a lot of kids did not take care of their vinyl. I always did and it still my favorite way to listen to music.
Well said Pete, it`s painful for me when I see musicians struggling today, when they are giving me so much pleasure!
As a university educated musicologist I agree with you on the state of today's music industry,,,,I did a thesis back in the 70's on the power of radio and the rapid decline of radio stations,,,,I had a late night radio show in Toronto and I played a lot of what some would consider non-mainstream music...I gave airtime to many prog bands that people never heard of but they learned to love them in time,,,,Radio DJ's and program managers were the most powerful people in music but the writing was soon on the wall when Napster was being formed...Many record labels held the bands hostage starting back in the 50's,,,in order to pay for their recording debt they were forced to go on the road....The Allman Brothers were forced to go on the road for 300 plus days in order to pay off their Capricorn bill. One thing also are the Mp3 UA-cam convertors where people can transfer an album for nothing
My favorite thing he said was,"When did we decide that music should be free","I don't want to buy CDs anymore,I want it for free"...…..you got to pay for cable ,going to the movies,dining out,,,,same thing,....it's the so called "fans" who destroyed the music business,with downloading,now its too late ,....you should WANT TO pay for music...….downloaders SUCK
The first album I bought was Stormbringer by Deep Purple in 1976. My first DP album. Then I bought all their albums in the 70s. BUT I had never heard of Captain Beyond until your video last week. I checked out the album, and it's great. So thanks for that Pete.
This is what's great about channels like this, some bands can pass you by while you're growing up, but thankfully Pete and others like him give us a chance to get into them later in life. I'm now a huge fan of Gentle Giant and Renaissance, who I totally missed back in the day. Better late than never :-)
@Hitler was Vegan No. Never seen them. After Blackmore left I never really followed them that much. I've seen all the members of DP in other bands, but never as Deep Purple.
The album they did with Tommy Bolin, ‘Come Taste The Band’, is very underrated. They have made some good albums since 1984 and with Steve Morse. It’s worth checking them out. They are/were still a great band without Blackmore. Really.
Pete, I can only salute your comments. Echo every word!!!!
I’ve seen some great live rock bands over the last decade who have never came within a sniff of a record deal ,my heart breaks for them and for the kids who are being fed the pap today . Thank goodness for ghost they have been a breath of fresh air 🤘🏻
Buying vinyl today is fun as it reminds me of the excitement of being a young kid discovering music
Right now music is a playlist Pete. When I was younger, one went to a record store. Paid for an album and went home. Opened the plastic and then a while experience started. The smell, the artwork, the lyrics, physically holding the record and finally the music. Thought about this as a result of your rant. The thing that for me is the biggest killer is the invention on the headset. Music is now a one person consumption item.
I agree with you. This kind of stuff has also contaminated the Christian music industry too.
Kerry Livgren (Kansas co-founder) said the same, back in the 80's in his book "Seeds of Change" I HIGHLY recommend purchasing the book.
As a young person who discovered and dove deep into rock and metal about a year or two, I think apps like Spotify can be used as tools to really expand the music you listen to. Think about it. There's countless ways to discover artists, either through playlists, the discovery week, or just searching through names and get familiar. It's all about how you use it.
It doesn't matter if you are a kid in the 70's buying the new Aerosmith LP or "saving" their albums on your phone and listening to them on the go.
Obviously with Spotify and other apps, it's really easy to just loop your own favourite songs and rarely venture out of that you listen to, but if you have the curiosity and patience like I did one fateful day, it can be a really rewarding experience.
I'm 58 and discovered your channel 6 years ago.
Thanks for a lot of finds I would never hear anywhere else e.g. "Tomorrow's Eve, Tiles,Riverside," and so many more.
My family and friends think I'm nuts but I've also gone back to buying cd's. It's just the right thing to do.
Nicely done, Pete. I'm 59 but I still like to find new music, and not usually the hard rock stuff I listened to as a teen.
try NAD SYLVAN ,,the new peter gabriel ,,no irony he is superb
Pete, I'm 60 years old and I guess I am one of those people stuck in the comfort zone of the 1970's and I like it. I believe most people my age enjoy that music and it brings them back to a time when they were in their late teens or early 20's and they may have their best memories back then when their responsibilities were less. We were younger and freer. Then the 80's comes along and life gets in the way with spouses and children and so forth. And there were TONS of different musical styles back then to choose from. But, I do appreciate that you keep everyone informed on the new and challenging music. Rock On !!
Thanks to you Pete I'm bought albums from the Sons of Apollo, Rival Sons, Anathema and the revamped Queensryche. Much appreciated as I'm hugely enjoying them.
Thank you so very much for this, Pete. As a guy in a band that makes music "like that anymore"; one of the biggest discouragements isn't the fact that we can't earn a decent dollar; it's that we can't even get people to be interested at all in hearing it. At all. We work so hard; searching, promoting, talking to people, advertising, etc., this BEYOND the work of making the music live up to be as much as it can. But the 2000+ people who will go drop $75 to see a big band from the 70's won't even give us the time of day in 2019, and i don't know why. You reviewed us recently, for which we're immensely grateful, so i know it ain't that we're "not good" (whatever that entails now. i don't even know anymore). We don't need to get paid huge; what we need most is just someone to care. The wall of blank indifference we face (while it doesn't faze the boss, he's gonna do what he was born to) is crushingly discouraging. And there's no way on to "the spoon" for us, that i can see. Guys like you are worth more than gold to us; but we need many more of you if we're gonna survive. The thing about supporting small bands today is, unlike King Crimson or Yes, you're not just a number to us. And sometimes your encouragement (and a good "house" at our shows) means more than the money we get when the night's over, bc it lasts longer. We can't feed ourselves forever, like you said. Much respect. -"shaggy"
I agree with so much of what you’re saying, but I think my problem with the music scene of today is that it just doesn’t resonate with the wider culture in the way it used to. In the U.K. in the ‘70s and ‘80s, weekly music papers like the New Musical Express (NME) and Melody Maker were crucial in forming and influencing my tastes. Someone wrote about Little Feat and happened to mention Ry Cooder. Ry? What kind of a name is that? Pretty cool though, I’ll check him out.
Similarly the radio stations played a real variety of music because the charts were full of every style of music imaginable. And the bands that made it big really changed the world at large, changed the way people thought, behaved and dressed. It was never just about the music for me. It was also about album covers, eccentric personalities, deviant behaviour, rebellion, sticking two fingers up at authority. The sad fact is that the music has been a business for a very long time now and businesses often suck the life out of the things they promote. The glory years from 1965-1975 were partly glorious because it was all new, the rules hadn’t been written yet and bands and record companies were basically winging it.
There may be good bands out there but if all they do is release a download and play a few shows, that’s not enough for me. I want a music scene that truly *matters* and I think the world has changed so much that I’m not sure it really does anymore.
Intelligent and constructive comment.
Another really thoughtful and profound comment! Channels like Pete's has the most intelligent viewers/subs/commenters.
Agree. Music was our lives then. Now kids have more options. And they somehow listen on their phones. Each generation is different. Baseball was everything to my Dad and his generation. I haven't watched a game in years.
Yes you expressed many of my thoughts while I was watching Pete's rant. The cultural thing of disposable and essentially valueless stuff - including music - is a big factor. I used to work in an office where so many people were working away on some tech stuff on their computers, but earbuds in, listening (or just being aware of) whatever music. A shallow experience compared to actually making a point of listening to an album. Sort of fits in with the cultural norms and maybe a lot of music produced today is perfectly undemanding and predictable because it fits that niche. Music for listeners who don't really want to spend time and effort listening to a track 3 or 4 times before they really get it. Instantly acceptable, instantly forgettable. I am 60ish and as guilty as anyone of listening mostly to older music, but the disappearance of the record company model of supporting a band or artist through years of touring, learning their craft, just growing and developing....that must have been a big factor in producing such a bounty of astonishing music in the 60s to the 80s. Just an opinion, and this is such a massive subject which I have bored friends with myself quite often. Great video rant by Pete.
Maybe it was partly due to the cold war, like the Cultural/ idealoigical war between the USA & the USSR & the individualistic life style the likes of Rock n Róll represented.
Yeah, I always tell my parents how I wish I could go back in the 90's at least. I was born in 2005. I still buy CD'S when I can, but everyone questions, I don't give two craps man, I love 80's thrash and 90's death metal, and it would be cool to go back and see what the scene was at the peak. Great video brother!
As a music fan from back in the 70s I still like physical product. I used to buy vinyl LPs, sometimes several in one go and carried on collecting them. CDs too. Even when I buy a CD from amazon and am told I can download it, I never do. I like to play the album as a whole as a physical piece of property. I still buy new CDs by older bands and like to investigate new bands who play the kind of classic rock I like. I love your shows detailing obscure older bands and have been turned on to some great stuff by your shows. I also love your reviews of newer bands product. We found a lot of stuff in the past by word of mouth from friends when we would get together as friends to listen to music and myself and my friends even though we are now in our 50s and 60s still do this and turn each other onto stuff. Word of mouth and personal recommendations are still a powerful tool for finding new music.
Totally agree, what is it about holding a CD in your hand that is so special?
I used to love reading the liner notes inside an LP cover.
@@tgwife1964 Me too, that was always one of the great joys of the vinyl LP. Thanks Cheryl
@@tgwife1964 I only ever bought cassettes, so never got to read them.
@@peteh7966 even the cassettes had the cover you could unfold and read the notes, they were smaller, obviously, but I used love laying the LP on turntable, it just had more substance and feeling to it, nothing against cassettes or CDs for that matter, they both have their charm. CDs didn't wear out.
Good question: Why did I start watching this show? Believe it or not, it has been part of my research for a novel I finished writing a couple of months ago. One of the characters, a teenager is an expert of 70's rock. Heck, you helped a lot, Pete!
Another thing about these new pop artists...they have many of the same producers and songwriters.
Ridiculous statement. Mutt Lange and Martin Birch produced nearly everything in the eighties.
All the damn recording magazines interview these big producers of top 40 and they only seem to record the same stale top 40 fartists.
@Joe Metal Head I knew Martin Birch personally for a few years, we lived in the same village (not mentioning the name on here). Believe me, he did a lot more than you'd imagine. Especially for Iron Maiden for example.
@Joe Metal Head of course not, but that's not true about today's music either, which was my original response
@Joe Metal Head He was a very private man, and I wouldn't share on here with dick heads like you. I've passed on my thoughts to his family in Sussex and will leave at that.
Pete, for what it's worth, your "New releases" videos are my favorites and I watch every one.
Glad to hear it Luis!
The greatest thing about the internet was how it expanded what I can listen to and find now and it started with my buddy he had a computer and was hip to Napster. But your right bands like Earthless are newer and wouldn't know of without this channel
I'm with you Pete. I'm 63. I remember the afternoons spent just leafing through albums at my local record stores. Some of the assistants working in the stores would put on albums. While you were looking through the albums you were being exposed to what albums were being played. Some of my favourite bands, I got to hear first while searching through the albums, and they were being played in the background. Eventually you would find an album you wanted to buy, and as you were making your purchase you would enquire what had been playing. I discovered Gong that way. I immediately bought Radio Gnome Invisible and Angel's Egg. The first time I heard Zappa was as I was leafing through the albums. Both Zappa and Gong have played a huge part in my music listening. I must admit I like just playing potluck on UA-cam, where listening to one band will lead you to click on a related recommendation. I listen to lots of modern stoner and psychedelic stuff, loads of modern blues, loads of post rock, loads of prog jazz. The one area where I'm deficient is heavy rock, and metal, of the late eighties through to the late nineties. For some reason I just don't like it. I like earlier and later stuff, no problem. Recent albums I've bought are by:- Children Of The Sun, Java, Captives Of The Void, Baba Naga, Earthless, Earth, Radar Men From The Moon, Space Debris, Stoned Earth, the Heavy Eyes, Solar Corona, My Brother The Wind, My Sleeping Karma, Velvet Trip, Tia Carerra, Grandloom,
WellI really enjoyed your rant. Now I'm going to have to go check out the rest of your channel. I remember on Friday nights going down to the Sound Shop and flipping through all of the new albums. Watching for the posters to come up for the next upcoming concerts in the area. I still like having physical media, and have even started buying some LPs here lately.
I recently read an interesting quote which said, " its nice to look at nostalgia but you don't want to get caught staring at it". There are plenty of choices for newer bands and music but you have to seek them out. The internet is a tool for this however a growing number of society has become the tool.Your thoughts on Prog are exactly like mine. Love the video and you make excellent points as usual.
Pete totally agreed with your assessment-we are spoon fed sheep- im 60 yrs. old and grew up with the greatest time in rock music just like yourself. Radio is so bad today that we only hear the usual songs from our favorite bands instead of the deeper cuts that a lot of us would like to hear. For me, i have a very extensive music collection like yourself so i dont have a problem with listening to what i like. There is still great music out there but you have to be seekers of it in order to find it. Todays culture is so absent of how we grew up that we may never see the music business the way it used to be. There are great young musicians out there and Pete you know there's great music still being made, you just have to find it. Maybe one day we will see a resurgence of classic rock type music but as the sheep go they will push themselves toward what's fed to them. Thank Pete and looking forward to classic live album wars. Ciao.
i'm 51yo pete and i dig where your comin' from brother!!! i truly miss the not so old days of hangin' out in the record store and we were all always so stoked with anticipation of new physical releases to hits the racks which was more fun than just having so much at your fingertips. same way with concert tickets back in the day-standing in line half the night in the sub-zero cold to try to get the best general admission seats we could. i still remember our downtown plaza which back then in the very early 80's was pretty baron but this older weird dude had a little music store with odd imports ,buttons,patches,posters and all that great shit WHERE i learned of this band called Dokken and an underground thrash metal band called Metallica for the first time and had my ass kicked really good! GOD!!! those were such great days!!!!!!!!!! i could go on and on and on BUT you know exactly what i mean brother.....
I agree with you 100% Pete! I went to a drum clinic a little while back and Tommy Aldridge was the star drummer at the clinic! He mentioned exactly what you said “ just because your told something is a hit song doesn’t mean you should or have to listen to it!” Most “hit” songs are by artists that are just terrible, really terrible with a 3 month shelf life and the song is forgotten! I agree to seek good music out! A band I really enjoy now ( saw them in Toronto last July) is Pineapple thief with Gavin Harrison on drums ( one of my faves) great band and show! Always enjoy your commentary Pete!!
I agree. I still buy CDs and albums. And support the artists. So they get some money. Hopefuly.
Thank you
Thank you....
I love and watch everyone of your what’s hot, new release shows...
Bought so much cool stuff since I found your channel.
The people who were happy with a transistor radio in the house and whatever is on the car radio, in the 70s, are the same people happy with a Spotify play list of 50 songs.
Lazy.
Great music out there....
Look for it, people 🎶🤘
Preaching to the choir here! I blame my generation (50+). They can wax poetic about a record from 50 years ago but couldn’t name a new band out there that wasn’t named Greta Van Fleet. They know more about lawn fertilizer than they care about music.
Bravo Pete, it's true that the love has gone. I remember spending hours in shops. It was fun man. Keep it up I'm 54 and still remember my first LP.
I know that this is a pre- Covid post. But I really appreciated it.
I was a working musician for 35 years. Starting in 2002. I started to go broke but never stopped. After my divorce, I need some time personally to get back to breathing
But, after I stepped off of the road. I began to listen as a fan again. To listen, to pause and really listen to music and new album releases by my old favorites and discovered many new favorites.
The industry will break your heart. But, the essence, the music will fill it. Keep digging in the virtual and the deeply rich crates if great music. From all of the eras.
Thanks again Pete. Great rant.
I love going out and finding stuff whether it's music, dvds/blu-rays, comics or t-shirts! I still get that thrill for going on an adventure and locating the things that I love.
I still love my classic rock, and hair metal. But I continue to find new groups and artists that catch my attention.
For perspective, my all time favorite band is Iron Maiden, while my second favorite band is Papa Roach.
About they only thing they have in common, is they both bring it live. Every time.
I don't care about genre, or labels, or any of that. All that matters to me, is "Do I like it"
First way I find new stuff is by checking out what my kids like. I've been doing that for 20 years now. Mostly, I find new artists by listening to the 2 college radio stations I can pick up in my car. I find so much stuff I never heard anywhere else.
Sadly, some of it is a few years old, and I missed the boat on it as the artist isn't around anymore. But still, I discover great things that way.
Festival shows are great for finding stuff too. Sometimes I love artists live, but don't care for their studio work.
If there are a couple bands on the bill I know I like, and the show is close enough, I go, and get there early enough to take in all the other bands.
This is a beautiful video Pete. Love it. I couldn't agree more.
Sidebar: regarding asking about your shirts, we ask because a lot of shirts are hard to find on credible websites.
Just picked up a Sony Cassette/CD player yesterday at goodwill lol all my extra money gets spent on CDs I’m grabbing up all I can while I can lol im 52 and love your videos this was so spot on.You have showed me some great bands that I didn’t know about and I’ve been buying a lot of those CDs ,thank you Pete for all these videos and all your hard work it is so appreciated take care
A band you need to check out is The Warning. Their most recent album, Queen of the Murder Scene, is a stroke of genius! The Warning are an unsigned band. Why, do you ask? They’ve had plenty of offers, under the condition that they play cookie cutter pop music instead of what they want to play, rock. These 3 girls, who are all sisters, turned down every offer from record labels because they want to stay true to themselves. And boy do they rock the world! Ever since I discovered The Warning back last September (my God has it been almost a year?!), it has sparked hope in me for good rock music to return. I’ve bought both of their albums, and there isn’t ONE song I dislike! Not to mention they are almost entirely crowd funded on Patreon, which I myself am a Patron of theirs. Anyway, I’ve rambled on for awhile but I HIGHLY recommend you check out The Warning!
Thank you for the suggestion! I just listened to them and they are so good! 😊
I'm all in here. Nodding along with most of this. I feel that the music industry has been turned on its head. The underground music of the past is now mainstream and vice versa.
Back in the day as kids, we used to frequent each others houses & share our music tastes and knowledge. I still go to friends homes sharing my loves, educating the ears.
One friend still buys music magazines and these carry a variety of new stuff. Because of this I've enjoyed Black Stone Cherry, Black Country Communion & I'm currently getting into Steven Wilsons' solo works. So you can still hard or prog rock 🎶 😎 !!
You're so right. Hopefully your message with sink in with true music lovers everywhere!
I'd agree Pete. There's a ton of great music out there right now. I'm a child of the '60's and '70's and to me the bands back then were pretty sophisticated and if they taught us anything, the future could be very fertile because they took us on a journey to what is possible. I know my musical taste has widened so far now BECAUSE of those early bands. My trip took me into some wild territory through contemporary jazz, of which the variety seems boundless. Also, I found a perfect engine in itunes suggested/related lists below my original choice...it's more sophisticated than spotifys pathetic 'radio station'...I can do deep searches for new names and bands on the outer limits of what's possible and every day my musical vocabulary widens.
70’s is a treasure trove of awesome music,I still find new 70’s prog bands to listen too from the 70’s,amazing decade.
My youth highlight was going to a second hand record store and buying tons of prog vinyl here in Melbourne,Australia because noone bought it here so it was cheap to buy,have U.S. pressings of Larks from that store,it carried alot of imported pressings for dirt cheap,then I’d pop in for a coffee down a dark scenic laneway and then head home on the train,simple pleasures in life,now with covid here,I just miss doing that.
Ebay is very good for music searching now and sites like Hoffman and all the prog sites,discovered alot of Italian prog that way.
I remember as a kid in the 70’s,bands like Mahavishnu and Yes were being played on the turntables and into the store,these days you mostly get top 40 or some indy stuff,70’s for me was like Disneyland,I was high on music and life.
Born in ‘66 here,wish I was born in the mid 50’s,I probably would not have made it lol,great music and pubs were thriving in Melbourne in the 70’s the poker machines came in and killed alot of the music scene,also foreigners from China buying up venues and turning them into hotels.
I´m at the same age as you, and maybe we are the last ones paying for our music. I by CDs like never before and of course there is new music that is great. In Sweden we luckily have Sweden Rock Magazine, new issue every month with over 100 pages of reading covering all from AOR/melodic rock/southern rock, prog/hard rock/metal up to death metal. Every issue with more than 50 reviews of new CDs. No problem to find new music. Keep on doing this shows, if you ask me you are worth all the mony in the world for this. You have for example put me back on track with Tull. Hoping to see shows with bands like Arena, City Boy, Axe, Accept, Survivor.
Love Mando diao a very underated band in sweden
Sweden . . .
There is SOMETHING in the water ;)
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It’s all about the investment, apart from hardcore fans and music lovers, no one wants to invest in music. By invest, I’m not just talking financially but with their time and with some effort.
If you don’t invest in something, that thing starts having no value.
It’s especially evident in young people, but it’s not their fault.
I have students that are shocked to hear people actually pay for music!
“Why would you pay for something you can get for free?” They ask.
Also, the old concepts like albums and release dates have almost disappeared, suddenly a bunch of new songs appear, just take your pick.
Listening to music used to be an all encompassing experience. From actually holding the music in your hands, to the smell of the album sleeve. The tension that builds from the point you purchased the record, travelling home, unwrapping the sleeve, placing the vinyl on the turntable and then you get the first listen.
And we used to listen. Concentrate. Invest more time and effort and the rewards have meaning. We cherished it. We worked for it. It is part of our lives.
Most kids these days never do that, and they have no idea what they are missing.
Being a music teacher though, I’m glad to say that a few of my students do understand and have made the decision, as now it’s just an option, to get into the vinyl resurgence, and I’m happy they can have the same (almost) experience I had as a kid.
Amen! I’m with you on this. I grew up in the 80’s as well. My brother was 19 in1968 (was in the Air Force) and he was my music guide. His album collection was massive. I spent many hours listening and taping, on cassette, music I liked. We went to a great record store and I got my love of all genres because of him. I have a nice collection of old 45’s, albums and CDs. I still go online and get my stuff. Thank you for posting this!!! You rock!
If you don’t know, but I’m sure you do, look up Wings of Pegasus. Fil is awesome.
Born 1985, im now 36...Took me some almost 26 years to actually build a taste in music and build a knowledge of bands and groups i adore. Essentially a Funk, R&B, Soul, Jazz-Funk (Some Disco) lover but branch off onto Rock, Pop and even classical/soundtracks. I find the state of music today such a sad affair. Its not even about getting older and moaning about everything...Music today is actually awful in almost every popular genre. I miss walking into a music store and spending easily 2hrs walking about and building a basket of albums to them listen to over the next weeks. Those were the days!
I'm a 70 ish old guy. I'm old enough to remember and to have played big band era music. My parents generation waited for the big bands to come back. Not my parents though. They evolved with the music. My mother subscribed to Rolling Stone in her 80s and was a big Journey fan. They didn't get stuck in an era, didn't call rock and roll " noise", and loved music all their lives. I like to think I'm the same way. I wish more people my age were like me. They're missing out on great stuff because they're stuck back in their era. No, they didn't stop making great music when you graduated high school. You just weren't there for it.
You and I are the same age. As I said in my previous comment, I use to love to go to the record store and flip through the albums. It was a weekly ritual. My friends and I would be pulling albums out, here check out this band, or that band. Somewhere in the 90's, I got lost. I lost my love for all of that. I basically just listened to my XM radio that played the music I loved in the 70s and 80s.
About a year ago, I found The Warning. a young trio out of Mexico that have blown my mind, re-ignited my fire for good rock music, and made me realize the music industry is being reborn, and people still have the fortitude to not bow down to the big labels. Then I found a web radio station, digital revolution radion. They play a lot of indy rock/hard rodk/metal bands. I have found that rock is still alive and well.
If you get a little time, you should give The Warning a listen. I'm thinking you would really like their album Queen of the Murder Scene. Check out anything on that album, or if you have about an hour, give the whole thing a listen. It's a concept album. What record label would let 3 teenage sisters do a oncempt hard rock album?
great video, IM 54, and miss those record shop days, finding new bands, from word of mouth from friends, friends older brothers, etc.... Hit Parader, Circus, Creem, ..that's what really turned me onto the great music I still love. My first album was GRAND FUNK LIVE, I was in kindergarten! MY uncle gave it to me, had an extra copy. I was rocking out to ARE YOU READY as my friends were listening to the Monkees or Partridge Family records.
Lately, I'm discovering the hidden treasures in the deep lesser know tracks of the older bands I love. For one, very classic Genesis with Peter Gabriel. Awesome show Pete and enlightening Rockin' Roll Rant!..Cheers!
The industry needs to be shaken up again with a Peter Grant type of management style
I was thinking the exact same thing. Put the mafia to good use again!
@@MetalPersonJ 👍👍
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak - first album I ever bought. Still one of my all time favorites.
Totally agree. Cannot believe I never knew about Savatage till I started watching your show. Thank you.
Totally agree with this rant. I remember the days of hitting the local record stores to see what is new or thumbing through a magazine to find them. The internet and streaming channels have ruined the music industry. I am thankful for your channel in the midst of this though as a way to learn about bands I missed and new bands.
Great rant, Pete. As someone of precisely the same age as you, who has been passionate about music since preteen years, I share your frustrations about the current landscape. The malaise is both sociological and economic.
When I was a kid, so many of my contemporaries wanted to be in a band. We cared more about learning to play and write than we did about tv or sports or eating. As all real music starts at the grassroots level, if kids no longer see being a musician as their life’s purpose, we’re going to be short changed, collectively. If Lennon and McCartney had wanted to play soccer, where would the world be? I’d argue that music-making is an intrinsic part of the human experience, but we’ve lost much of that impetus. The reasons are complex, and not for this forum, but it’s a factor.
Music is a marketplace like any other, and has supply-side, demand-side, and intermediary/marketing characteristics. All these facets are currently dysfunctional.
The supply side has become progressively consolidated by major corporations, who control most of the media-entertainment complex. Decisions have been taken to push certain genres, with others being de-prioritized. A generation of music consumers has been exposed to a very narrow range of music, which has only exacerbated the sociological issues that have operated in parallel. The independent label sector has been under enormous financial pressures for a couple of decades. These labels were always a feeder channel for the majors. The majors no longer have a business model that needs the flow up from the independent sector.
The demand side is a significant function of youth culture and exposure. It works symbiotically with the supply side, but it’s almost as though the spigot has been turned to a drip.
Once upon a time, it was the intermediaries that were the tastemakers and the route to the marketplace for new music. I grew up in the UK and my go-tos were John Peel, independent record stores, Sounds, Melody Maker, the NME, and the ‘zines. So much of that infrastructure has passed into history, but if people don’t care, you can’t operate the edgy critical platforms that used to introduce us to the next new thing. You’re an exception, and exceptional, but why don’t you have several hundred thousand subscribers? That speaks volumes about the state of the world and its priorities.
The internet has only served to make all the economic and sociological factors worse, from the standpoint of disseminating great music to listeners that also supports artists financially.
It would be easy to be terminally depressed about what we see, but actually I’m not. I believe that when a life enhancing part of the human condition is suppressed, there will eventually be a grassroots reaction to restore balance. Authentic expressions of what it is to be human will take on corporate cynicism and sterility and its vacuous, disposable product. Music will flower again and the good stuff we see today will represent the remnant of self-starters and true believers that kept the flame burning through the dark age. When that rebirth happens, hope will be vindicated. I’m not going to speculate over dates, but it can’t happen soon enough. The health of any civilization is measurable by its art. We are ill, but we’re not yet dead!
What a thoughful and intelligent post! Your observations are right on!
However, I don't share your optimism for the future. I'm 66, and never imagined I'd live to see the world we've got now, in all respects. I think anyone under 50 has now been so brainwashed and dumbed-down by the PTB and their technology, that frankly, I think zombie-ism has become not just cultural and societal, but is now genetic.
I look at the Top 100 and I'm HORRIFIED. I hear any of it while stuck in a waiting room - especially at the doctor's office - and it's like a living hell. All I can think of is: "People think this crap is music?!?"
I could like this video enough times! Pete we’re totally on the same wavelength.There is some GREAT new music out there.Open your ears and your minds people.Keep Rockin man 🤘🏻
Still go to Vintage Vinyl in Fords NJ! Love looking through CD'S still to this day!
came here via Circle Of Tone (shout out to Owen!) and couldn't agree more! one 'tiny' yet great thing about the current state of affairs is that CDs are extremely cheap nowadays for us that like actual physical stuff.... wonderful music for less than a buck or two.... keep up the good work Mr. Pardo!
Great video Pete. I've got two words you and your listeners/viewers...RIVAL SONS!!!👍
I’m 62 years old. Last fall my wife decided to buy concert tickets off Groupon to go see Lil’ Wayne and Blink-182. Never have been crazy about Lil’ Wayne or Hip Hop in general, and Blink-182 is passable in my book. So, why not? There was an opening band called “Neck Deep.” Never had heard of them before. They rocked! My wife went down and bought some merch before they were three songs into their set. Ended up leaving half way through Blink-182. I’m old and I had to go to work the next morning! But, Neck Deep was worth it!!
Slipped Disc on Rockaway Ave in Valley Stream , NY...man I miss that place.
I remember WASP coming down the street to sign the new album and everyone going wild... so many great bands did signings there.
Across the street on the corner was an old movie theater that they converted into a concert venue where they used to have local bands play on a Saturday night... I used to get dropped off there by my mom and spend a few hours watching bands from our neighborhood or the surrounding area.
Such great memories.
Good advice, Pete. Also, I recommend looking deeper than what's popular on Spotify, which uses algorithms to determine what gets promoted (and what doesn't). There are lots of great bands out there that don't get promoted by the media, radio or record labels.
Fun story. The last show I ever played was less than a year ago at a bar gig, where all the workers literally expected us to just play for free, and were shocked when we even brought up pay. They told us just to play and we'll discuss pay at the end of the night. We were already there and set up, so we played, show went great, they payed us with "drink tickets" and invited us to come back. I replied with, "Well, we're playing a big house show next month, there's going to be a lot of people, why don't you come bartend for us?" A couple of them were interested, so we exchanged contact info. About a week later, I text one of them about it with a day and time. He replied with "Great! How much is the pay?" I said "Well, why don't show up, bring your tables, glasses, whatever equipment you need, do the show, and we'll discuss pay at the end of the night." Never heard from him again. Music has just simply lost a lot of its value. Sadly, most musicians are so desperate just to play, they'll accept ANY offer. Even if that offer is nothing but just getting to play.
My music choices are deliberate. I'm open but ruthless in eliminating. My playlist is vetted, just like my life.
I'm with you all the way. Without music the world would be such a dark and empty place. I would probably die within two weeks...
Great rant! Only downloaded albums I have ever had - not available on CD - so I download, transfer to CD and print artwork. Gotta have a physical copy - do not trust streaming or other on-line services to keep my music available. Love looking for stuff - on google and still trawl through CD stores whenever I can
I like to get as much physical as I can, Unless it's out of print or going for a pretty penny.
if you've got the downloaded file of an album on a PC or memory stick, you'll always have it no matter what streaming services have or don't have
@@nectarinedreams7208 I had purchased some music files (fortunately not too many) before my hard drive crashed. I do have some music on a memory stick (which I ripped from some of my mom's CDs) but I recently tried to listen to them on my brother's computer and they wouldn't play ! What I _was_ able to do was SEE the song titles on the playlist and look up the same songs so I could make a UA-cam playlist. I still prefer CDs to the memory stick, though.
the best rant I've ever seen and so spot-on. Thanks Pete great job.
God, you killed it Pete! I keep saying the same thing: we are spoiled with so much so fast stuff that they are killing our curiosity, tolerance and openess! Great Rant...as always!
Beautiful Pete. You are spot on brother. Thanks for all the great content.
Great rant! More people with influence need to speak up for the artists. I've been buying music for 50 years and continue to seek and buy great new stuff. Spotify and the like are killing the music industry. You hit it on the head when you asked "who said music should be free"?
i’m glad my new (used) car has a functional cd player... i still rock cds in it on the way to work
Also agree with your take on concerts; people (alot) only want to hear the bands music that the came to hear-blows my mind when i see people going to bathrooms and beer gardens when a band plays a new song from a new album ; or the thoughtless people that are using their cellphone constantly, why are you hear?? Watch the performance not your damn phone. Start supporting these bands buy buying their albums and cd's-not spotify.! Thanks Pete.
agreed. without the internet, my CD collection would not be over 5,000 and counting. it's a music lover's best friend.
I'm 60 and it's always been about exploring and discovering new music for me, from day one back in the early 70s. We had lousy top 40 back then like the lousy popular music of today. But underground FM radio exposed me to new artists making great music and that's how I got my taste for exploration. Today, my "underground FM" is the Google Play streaming service. And when I discover new artists I like (which happens a *lot*), I buy the downloads/CDs/etc. So nothing has really changed in my experience, except the formats. Finding new good music is easier than it ever was. It just comes down to whether you are proactive or reactive: searching vs. being fed whatever the "feed" is sending you.
Amen. Thanks again for what you do, Pete!
Thanks. Agree generally with your perspective. I’ve been a Purple fan since the age of 11 in 1969. It looked as if they weren’t going to have a viable ....album-tour-album... career at a certain point but as you will know they turned it around with Now what! a decade or so ago.
As a kid I listened to Shostakovich, Mahler and Bach because Blackmore/Lord raved about their music. Purple had an experimental edge. The Concerto for Group and Orchestra (Lord 1969) was and is a fantastic live experience. It was performed in 2012 by students from the Scottish Royal Conservatoire of Music with multiple 5 star reviews in the National press.
I love great musicianship in any genre and also experimentation. There are still people pushing the boundaries who are also great performers/artists. I saw. Björk last night on her Cornucopia tour.
She could “rock” any stadium with her back catalogue but she chooses to experiment with, at times subtler new music and visuals. She has never compromised.
David Sylvian is another true leading edge artist who can really play and write and move an audience to its core. His tour and live album Damage as Sylvian/Fripp (Robert Fripp of King.Crimson) is a masterpiece, displaying how innovation can also be totally engaging to any “rock” oriented listener. Sylvian is now in semi retirement. His first four solo albums engaged me the way Purple did when I was a kid.
The Blue Nile were another band who managed to innovate and engage a live audience with never less than stunning performances.
Bands like Rival Sons can still produce powerful blues/soul based rock which feels vital and viscerally engaging in 2019.
I saw Nick Cave live for the first time last year. Iggy pop is the only performer. I can compare him to. What a visceral moving live experience that was, despite being very rooted in established styles of music.
The tragedy is that kids are being brainwashed into thinking that looped beats over samples and spoken/ shouted lyrics about consumerism and narcissism.... is vital/current/creative/ life enhancing.
It is, in many cases totally cut off from the vast variety and heritage of music over the past 1000 years (and vastly more ancient ancient, folk/ethnic/tribal music)
Music should be central to a child’s education yet it is pushed to the margins in most schools ... and increasing so. Learning an instrument should be a possibility for all children as it develops them in so many ways as human beings.
Let’s face it we have had it as a species if we continue to leave the “ education” of our children to the agenda of social media companies and governments who sleep walking have led us into the global crisis.
Hey I'm 15 and I still go to record stores and 95% of what I listen to is classic rock. I don't think that music is bad nowadays I just think the more mindless rap and pop songs are topping the charts, overshadowing the more quality enriched songs. Also, if I find a record interesting I will always pick it up as a cd in store or online. I can't drive so mostly online.
THIN LIZZY... THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ONE LIKE LIZZY!
Great! Who wants to listen to a Thin Lizzy copy?
We want new stuff which has its own voice and style.
@Joe Metal Head Did he? To me his focus was on Thin Lizzy, not that there were no other bands with their their own style.
But if your interpretation is right, I would still disagree. There are lots of band like Thin Lizzy. OK, not like Thin Lizzy but with their own distinct sound. And this is what the video is about. This is Pete's message.
@Joe Metal Head I don't care if we agree or not. You have your taste and i have mine. Fine! You have your opinion and I have mine. If Thin Lizzy is your blueprint for what is good or not, fine with me. If you think you can rip my taste and choices off in a minute, so be it. I don't care much, to be honest.
My point isn't that Thin Lizzy wasn't a great band, because they were, and they were amongst my favourites. But when I go to a store to buy a new shirt, I don't buy the same as I had before, just because it was my favourite shirt. I want something new. Not just a copy of the old shirt, no matter how much I loved it. I may even some times dare to challenge my old taste and find something different.
Peace!!
Word. 28 years making music, touring , playing in empty halls. I can’t hit the road harder because I have a family and bills to pay. People are usually way off on album sales. New bands are lucky to sell 500 units. Spotify, iTunes and all that killed the artists. Think about who gets paid. And why.
Mad respect, Pete. It's nice to hear you tell it like it is.
Totaly agree with you, so many great albums came out during the last 20 years. Nice to make new memories with new music and not be stucked in the 70s 80s and 90s.
Pete you said spoon fed one time too many. Foon sped. Good one. Loving new rock and couldn't live without it.
I like my account for my old faves but MORE important it allows me to explore More music than ever!
I'm 56 and I'm still discovering material from the 60s and 70s that is new to me ........ I don't have time for actual new stuff as well, ha ha...... Currently I'm exploring the Dutch scene from the late 60s and 70s, amazing stuff.
I'm 54 years old. Agree, exciting to go in to record shop and going in for latest releases. Found our info from kerrang magazine. Don't know if that was in USA. You had to take a chance on a vinyl but that's what was exciting, didn't know what you were you were getting until you dropped the stylus on it!
I'm a newcomer to this channel and for the week I've been watching it I've already been turned on to some bands I didn't know about or bands that I've always intended to check out better but somehow never got to
I love a Challenge Pete.You make me think and research and listen to both old and new bands that I never heard of.Keep up the Good Work.I'm one of the four people that watch you new release uploads.That's a joke Pete. My point being even if you reach one person and change there thinking it's worth it.
Wow. You nailed it on the head. Every point made, I applaud you sir. 👍