I think you suffer from the common problem out here of self-fallacy, which is because you think something is good, it is good, and/or people should recognize it. I am still not over it.
But it is pretty much proven GOSPEL on late night talk shows that the band leads to channel changing. I would normally agree with you, but many people have told me that the minute to minute ratings clearly show this. As a result, the bands always end the show, even when bands like U2 or REM play all week, they play last.
Putting the band last also sort of hides the usual practice of pre-taping the performance before the show starts.
you are right. If I was king, people would be listening to Coltrane and Beethoven on top 40.
ReplyDeleteI also in my mind thought it would be cool to see Braxton or Ornette on late night. Ornette did play SNL in the 70s. Awesome. Of course Fear also did play SNL at one time. Nowadays? Green Day, Ciara, Jonas Brothers. Either young people were listening to different musics back in the day, or I'm suffering from Abe Simpsonism. Are the Jonas Brothers the Ornette of today?
No f-ing way. I look at the Itunes top download list and it is almost always filled with JUNK.
ReplyDeleteIt's probably always been this way, but I wonder if this were the late 50s. What if the jazz greats had access to Itunes for distribution? How might have music changed?
Cuz now all we seem to have is ass fulls of auto tuners and less than imaginative sampling.
I mean, even in the ridiculed 70s, REAL bands like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, The Stones, all made tons of money.
Don't get me wrong. There are TONS of good bands out there now. But it's hard to hear many of them -- takes a lot of sifting -- but the ones doing well just seem so mediocre.