Dylan says modern music is worthless

[Relicplayer]

I'll defer to Bob on this one. He's been around the block a few times and just around music longer than most. Listen to his radio show,most of the stuff he plays is 30-50 or more years old. There ain't nothin like the old sounds. If you weren't around when cars still had tube radios then your experience is lacking`. I was just a kid but I remember late 50's-early 60's and how the world was then and how it is now as far as music and music reproduction goes. We've lost ground and sucked the soul out of most musical experiences. Just think how it was before gigantic,powerful sound systems when people had to gather closer together to hear.There's something much more intimate about that than going to live music now where you have to wear earplugs,scream at the top of your lungs to the person next to you to communicate and have hearing damage as a result. It's a cold,harsh,ridiculous musical world these days on a lot of levels and I don't like it. Maybe that's part of what Bob was getting at .

[diggum12]

back in '90 i seen Eric johnson in a club here in Savannah, it was a sit down at a table kinda deal and there were maybe 30 people total, it was awesome. I later seen Kings X in the same club 3 different times got to meet them and hang out it was the best. The club is closed now, Savannah sucks!
Feburary 22 1992 I saw Mr.Big there also right before 'To Be With you' was a hit. That was amazing, i was right in front of Billy Sheehan the whole show.

Wow man, you and I have (had) similar tastes.  I met EJ the same way in a not too large bar.  Cool guy. 

My brother is good friends (not just name dropping) with KingsX.  I've met them a couple times, hung out on the bus, had dinner together, etc.  3 of the most wonderful guys I've ever met.  Doug's awfully quiety though.

Then via the soundman of KingsX, I got to meet Steve Vai & the band (w/ Sheehan) for a show.  Hung out in the soundbooth.  Met Eric Sardinas too!  Billy Sheehan was like meeting a guy whose personality is like the coolest dad you've ever met.  Vai had the flu so he wasn't too talkative, but slapped a smile on his face anyway.   I really wanted to pick Tony MacAlpine's brain but he was hiding or something. 

When you see those 3 bands live, you know that modern music is not worthless. 

[Groove]

I remember seeing Eric Johnson in a club in Houston, mid-late '80's, this was well before AVM came out, with all that Cliffs of Dover horseshit.  The version he played the nite I saw him wasn't the version that made it to the album, & it was 10 times better both in composition AND sound quality.   I've heard a ton of bands down through the years, & some of the worst I ever heard were better than some of the so-called "best" that are on the radio right now.  I think it was on the homerecording.com website where I saw that someone had discovered 2 Nickelback songs that were the exact same tempo, same chord progression, same key, pretty much the same everything except the lyrics.  I checked it out, and the poster was right.  I tried to go back & find it so I could post a link to it, but I couldn't bring it up.  I do like some of the stuff that Nickelback has written, but damn, how commercial do you have to be without totally taking it up the a** from the record company just to get where they are?   Ya know, I've never really been a big Dylan fan to begin with due to some of the turds he put out, but I have to agree partially with what he said, inasmuch as the quality of a CD isn't really any better than any format that came before it, other than fidelity, & IMO vinyl is still better.  Something about dragging a pointed piece of steel through a groove in a black frisbee that just sounds better to me, but that's my opinion, and who the hell am I...  ?!?
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