What is this all about? And frankly...what should I care?
OK, so it doesn't exactly take a genius to understand that there has been some pretty massive shifts of power in the music industries. Popular music (pop to you and I) has won the epic battle of the titans and ascended into the dictatorship we know it as today...it's on your radio at work, your car, your TV at home, your Facebook and your little sisters (or brothers?) room down the hall. It's pop because it is popular...but what if you aren't popular? *EHM* Let me rephrase that. What if you don't like popular? Well that is where we come in! This show is about bringing great rock and blues to the audience that just don't 'get' popular. This is the show for the folk that like their parents records. But there is another element that we focus on a WHOLE lot more...
With this rise of pop music, came the ultimate downfall in the 'I need to be sh*t hot at my instrument to make it' ideology. Why? Because pop doesn't need complex solos, flaming arpeggios and mind bending soul filled epics. People like simple. People WANT simple. So it went from this 'sh*t hot' ideology to mythology in one swoop. Or did it? Well no. There are still musicians that are dedicated to understanding their instruments and being 'free' in a sense to IMPROVISE and that my friends is what this show is truly about. We are all about promoting the blues and rock musicians of our generation and every FRIDAY (5-6pm) we have someone new to help us prove that it's not a dying art. It's alive and well in this world of ever dominating pop.
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