It seems in this day and age you HAVE to be both!

When I started out in music ten years ago, all you had to do is switch on a few synths, a computer (the Atari) and away you go producing music, three hours of solid music making. I used to be working on three tunes at once.

BUT

Nowadays, you have to set this up and that up (VST instrunemts, audio cards, bits, bitrates...). I used to look forward to a music session, now I dread it...to the point where I've thought about giving it all up because now all you NEED is a computer. It takes away the professionalism of music. You can also hear that music has no human element whatso ever! Now any Tom, Dick or Harry can get to number one!

Watching Top Of The Pops in later years made me sick, becuase, it's all about how good you can dance and creating an image, not about the music, so the music can be absolute rubbish! Have I made a point? Are musicians a dying breed? What happened to seeing all those keyboards on stage along with guitars, bass and drums. I'd like to see those days again

It seems that IMAGE and SEXY DANCE ROUTINES comes first, MUSIC comes last. I would like to think that everything goes full circle.

With this in mind, I would welcome your views on this subject, thank you.

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Duncan J. White