What will we do when the great musicians are dead?

[GTaudiophile]

I love YouTube. You can search for all your favorite concert scenes and such. I sit there and watch some of these and wonder, what will we do when they're dead? I mean, any of these "blue hairs" can school 99% of the so-called talent thrown at us from the RIAA.

Here is what I am talking about...

Brothers in Arms by Mark Knopfler (Live)
Layla by Eric Clapton & Mark Knopfler (Live)
Take Me Home by Phil Collins (Live)
Handle with Care by the Traveling Wilburys
Just Like a Woman by Richie Havens (Live)

Just some very "folk heavy" examples but the list goes on and on...

 

[yankeesfan]

All of the great painters are dead and I still admire their work.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

listen to their music?

 

[IAteYourMother]

there's still good young musicians.

 

[KillerCharlie]

Pffftt... I'll take a half-decent performance of a Chopin piece over that any day.

 

[dotcom173]

well u consider GOOD music to be the music you've either grown up with, or just come to like.

people growing up nowadays are listening to the bands that are out now, and many of them think Phil collins and mark knopfler are crap. when this generation gets older, they're gonna call, Thrice for example, a great band, rather than Frank Sinatra. sorry for the 4 commas in that sentence.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I am talking more about good old fashioned "rock and roll" as made by the pioneers of the genre.

Classical will always be what it is.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I am talking more about good old fashioned "rock and roll" as made by the pioneers of the genre.

Classical will always be what it is.

Old fashioned "rock and roll" died with Buddy Holly 😉

 

[nakedfrog]

With the spread of the internet, though, I imagine music will become more populist in a way. Any idiot with a computer can create an album these days. They can be heard. New outlets will spring up for these talents to be heard on a wide scale. Corporations will buy those, then strangle them to death, and the cycle will repeat. But call 0.5% great, and we'll still have good stuff to listen to.