Monday morning, it's the day of the week that seems so hard to get through if there is no pot to stir up though to my surprise a interesting link was shared - Neil Young speaking out about the quality of music - a man at the age of 66 who has been though the stages of change in music has a lot to say.
“If you’re an artist and you created something and you knew the master was 100 percent great, but the consumer got 5 percent, would you be feeling good? I like to point that out to artists. That’s why people listen to music differently today. It’s all about the bottom and the beat driving everything, and that’s because in the resolution of the music, there’s nothing else you can really hear. The warmth and the depth at the high end is gone.”
“It’s like Occupy Music,” the folk-rock legend added. “The 5%, that’s who we are now. We used to be the 100%!”
I couldn't of said it any better. I grew up listening to 70's music and some early 80's since my dad always played it. Yes there are places it could be tweaked but that would not make it more real. I also remember my dad saying music was going to hell in the 90's with dance and pop crap. I fought him in the 90's saying there is music that is amazing. I would play bands such as Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Nirvana, Alice In Chains and more. Then he then he would play some classic artist and I would sit back and listen to the instruments sing. "When you bring me a artist like that then we'll talk." I can't deny that music had balls.
The real sounding music is a part of my memories "More than a feeling" by Boston, Zeppelin, Clapton, Stones and more made a huge part of the truck ride to go fishing. It wouldn't be a fishing trip without these classic songs on a "mixed cassette". CD came along and wow. Even the 90's you have the talent and songs that will be played years from now. NOW I hear people play those songs on mp3 - Ouch. Neil Young at his age and experience should be offended! Take all the life out of his music and others as well. Not only the mp3 quility problem there are other problems also. You go see so many of today's artists they cannot perform what's on the CD, and you get what's on the mp3 the 95% of crap. So many don't even have a real voice! I just can't say I will want to play a mp3 years from now since it won't remember the artist and the talent in the proper way. Think about it when you play a couple chords of things like "Smoke on the Water" or play any Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Rolling Stones and Ozzy PEOPLE KNOW IT - THEY LIVE and can sell out stadiums in their retirement years for a reason.
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Why would you want to Take away From This?
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