Here’s what led up to me presenting this topic…..

For the last few weeks I’ve been observing the mediocrity and gradual demise of music as we know and experienced it years ago. There are those who say it’s just music in another form…I say it’s not music even in it’s death throes! Then they say “the same thing was said about rock & roll and that came to be accepted!” And every genre that came out after that was invited into the inner circle. Up until the nineties when music took a nosedive. What we’re hearing now is “tolerated” at best. It may be “accepted” thought it won’t be as music but rather as a replacement for music.

Back to my story:

It started with watching these awful, awful, AWFUL bands that the late night talk show hosts present to their audience to stay connected to their teenage fans. I’m at my desk at night multitasking (working and watching). Here’s what I observe with most of these groups:

The lyrics of their songs I wouldn’t present to my psychiatrist….they’d drive even HIM up a wall.
They sing sounding like they have chronic colitis.
Women dressed as if they buy their clothes at the Salvation Army or else going to the Vampire Ball.
The guitar kings never look up at their audience instead burying their heads somewhere between the strings.
The rap heroes flash their hand gestures like street gang members and strutting their stuff up and down the stage deluding themselves about how good they are.
Most of the bands so hyper my guess is instead of a Johnny Walker before the show, they took massive amount of Viagra!

Back to my story:

Thursday I stopped in to a music store to try out a baby grand (I have a love affair with pianos). I’m talking to the salesman who turns out to be an ex-working pro. He told me pianos are the next instrument to take a hit. No one buys them for their kids anymore to learn music on. Instead, he said they buy them Casio’s and then get angry and frustrated at their children for “not being able to learn properly (on the Casio)!”

Later that night I go on the Internet and see this gentleman’s promise of hearing what one man can do to sound like an orchestra. And I’m foaming at the mouth to hear what a working pro does to entertain on a cruise ship? After listening, that was it for me. I recognized at that point the bar had been lowered. That no one actually plays music anymore. Musical craftsmen have vanished from the face of the Earth. I’m feeling isolated!

Lucky