Are we a dying breed?

[Brad 2 the Bone]

I'd put roughly the same odds of that happening, on my having dinner and a nightcap with Katy Perry this evening.

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[Captain Geech]

Aren't many of the points expressed here simply .... progression?
If you don't progress, you are simply standing still ....

OR
Is it simply .. perpetual change?

I would say yes to that. It's just the natural progression of life. I accept change better than a lot of people I encounter, and roll with it better than most. I guess that's part of why I am still interested in finding new music. It's getting harder to find something that clicks, some new sound that isn't just an echo of the past, but something truly new and interesting.

[progmatist]

What I'd really love to see is for Steve to do a Genesis Revisited 3 where he takes material from AFTER he left the band and approaches it the same way he did the material on the first Genesis Revisited. I think it'd be fascinating to see his take on stuff like Mama, Domino, Dodo, or the Duke Suite. Or maybe even Calling All Stations.

I'd put roughly the same odds of that happening, on my having dinner and a nightcap with Katy Perry this evening. But I DO think it would be a really cool/interesting idea.

That would be roughly equivalent to Rod Evans touring with a bunch of LA musicians, as "Deep Purple." Performing mostly Mark II material.

[MudShark22]

I had an image for a moment of a band consisting of Hughes, Evans and Coverdale with Sykes on guitar and Vinnie Appice on drums.

Called "What the HEC"

Man this stuff is strong......

[MortSahlFan]

I also would rather die... Because of the lack of talent, originality, punctuality, I've mostly been a one-man band, and I can't tell you how many times I've heard... basically, instrumentals go nowhere, especially without using trends.. Then what's the point? To sound like others is a waste of time. But after 30 years, I've been discouraged, but also decided to expand a bit - writing brass arrangements to add to old songs of mine, or new ones, or orchestral.. I'm an author, but can't seem to marry the two, so on occasion, I will hire someone I know to add vocables.

Playing live, I was lucky that my last band around here did NOT want to play the hits. Commercial bands, but mostly deep tracks... Out of the 33 songs we did for our big concert downtown, 20 of them were Steely Dan. We played a few Zep (Fool In The Rain, All My Love), Cream, Zep, Billy Joel, Beatles, Lennon, Todd Rundgren.

But I can't find a band, let alone one person.. I'd love to jam/record, and bounce ideas off each other. But I've been away from Michigan a while, and since then, the things that used to work like Craigslist, don't.... Or this music venue which was very helpful that is hardly ever open. And then other things in life happen and before long it's been a few years since I've played live. Right before COVID.

[Yodelgoat]

Glad to hear all your opinions! Please don't think I'm ready to open my wrists over people not liking old music. I really don't think anyone is missing Tony Bennett or Glenn Miller - But I actually still do. That was my parents music and was a big part of my own life. I just have very little good things to say about modern music. Except perhaps in the nooks and crannies of the Prog world.

Updates: Playing on the street in Sedona in July, I played Bohemian Rhapsody and 2 little kids - maybe 5 or 6 years old stood there and sang the whole thing with me. Apparently there is a video game that uses that song, so kids know it. Last week I was playing on the street in a tiny Texas town called Dumas just for an hour or so... Got three smiles and waves. Lots of bewildered looks, which are just as much fun.

Back in my home town, I am definitely seeing fewer people who know the music I play. It has been an extremely hot summer here in Tejas, and so older people like me are probably staying out of the 113 degree heat. I play at night and it still was regularly over 100 degrees at 9pm.

Anyway, I apologize for flittering in and out like I do. I used to regularly hang out here, but life has become oddly, more busy, so I just dont have the bandwidth to do everything I would like. Including reading the arguments over the latest Yes release. - Wait... Is there one???? ...533 pages later...

[progmatist]

Updates: Playing on the street in Sedona in July, I played Bohemian Rhapsody and 2 little kids - maybe 5 or 6 years old stood there and sang the whole thing with me. Apparently there is a video game that uses that song, so kids know it. Last week I was playing on the street in a tiny Texas town called Dumas just for an hour or so... Got three smiles and waves. Lots of bewildered looks, which are just as much fun.

During First Fridays in the Downtown Phoenix Arts District, many young bands busking up and down Roosevelt Row play OUR music. A young band right outside my place of employment played a few old Rush songs. With the vocalists trying to do Geddy's screeching falsetto. He also tried doing Robert Plant when they played Zeppelin songs. The crowd walking up and down the street seem to love all of it. Not just people our age reliving their youth. Young people love it as well.

[SteveSly]

Glad to hear all your opinions! Please don't think I'm ready to open my wrists over people not liking old music. I really don't think anyone is missing Tony Bennett or Glenn Miller - But I actually still do. That was my parents music and was a big part of my own life. I just have very little good things to say about modern music. Except perhaps in the nooks and crannies of the Prog world.

Updates: Playing on the street in Sedona in July, I played Bohemian Rhapsody and 2 little kids - maybe 5 or 6 years old stood there and sang the whole thing with me. Apparently there is a video game that uses that song, so kids know it. ..

I think the "Bohemian Rhapsody" movie had a lot to do with introducing that song and other Queen songs to a whole new generation.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

Hey, some of us miss Tony Bennett. Glenn Miller, maybe not so much....

[progmatist]

Hey, some of us miss Tony Bennett. Glenn Miller, maybe not so much....

One must consider the abrupt end to Glenn Miller's career. When his plane went down in the English Channel, during the second world war. My parents pushing 80 are barely old enough to remember Glenn Miller's music.

[Rarebird]

One must consider the abrupt end to Glenn Miller's career. When his plane went down in the English Channel, during the second world war. My parents pushing 80 are barely old enough to remember Glenn Miller's music.

And there are still people covering his music and playing for audiences.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

Oh, I like some of Miller's music. "In the Mood," "Star Dust," and especialy "Pennsylvania 6-5000." But he, as a person -- well, theoretically, every person, being unique, is irreplaceable. But Bennett was just more irreplaceable to me.

If that even makes sense.