Why aren't most Zoomers into progressive rock?

HI,

The Internet is helping the "individual" a lot more than it is, let's say, an art scene, which is going to make it difficult to have mixed media things on it, is my take.

I was trying hard, and did succeed with lights and sound when I was directing in theater, to create something new ... with the sounds, and the lights a major part of the atmosphere and the event itself. In one play, the far out lights and colors were reserved for the moments when the "dog" talked to his master. In another play, the music "conducted" the beginning and the ending of the play (Escuriel by Michel de Ghelderode) ... and got the comment by a professor, that he didn't come to the theater to see loud music! 

How times change ... and this was 1980, and he was obviously out of his element ... and not in touch with the arts of the day at all ... he still thought that acting was all TV styled poses for the camera to get the face shot! So, a lot of it has to do with the instructors, and sometimes, this is where I am opposed to the "tenure" thing, since it tends to simply keep the old guard ... doing nothing of worth while artistic work that helps the art form.

The "zoomers" will get into progressive, jazz, or something else ... the moment they get tired of hearing the same growl over and over and over and folks keep keep adding more of them to the top releases. This time, that growl is about the Bible, of course! Tomorrow about __________ !

I'm not sure I get your question. You're asking be what's my definition of accessible music because you think PR is accessible and I think not?

Accessible music is the music "that's most easy to listen to" to the most people I'm not sure what to say, really, because I tought this was quite a widespread truth based solely on "facts"? Most people listen to the music that's most "accessible" to them. You take this week's top listened to songs they're all 3 minut pieces with some singer taking the stage, a 4/4 beat and so on. That's what is objectively accessible. There are no 12 minute instrumental pieces with tempo and time signature changes every two bars, with endless solos, a mixture of jazz, folk, rock, classical music.

This is true for basically any week since forever, even when PR was most widespread than its is today. Even when Progressive Rock put out some popular hits like Tubular Bells, when went on air was a 3:15 minute "radio version" made to render "more accessible" a 20 minute piece.

Hi,

It wasn't the last of the edited and cut up versions of any material at the time, however that was coming to an end, in 2 ways ... one it killed the "banded" LP given to radio stations (a couple more years) and then it ended up hurting the sales of albums with long cuts.

We had around the house, many of these big time LP's cut up in portions ... they included CTTE, TFTO, APP, TAAB, a couple of Rush things (I don't know Rush intimately!), THE DOORS, FOCUS, and many other albums. The worst, and most offensive of these "banded" pieces of music, was, OF COURSE ... Light My Fire, that the AM radio played and it was less than half its normal length. A DJ in Madison at one time even commented how stupid the organ stuff sounded in the long versions! (Believe it or not, this would sound like some folks here on PA these days ... that love their thrashing and growling, but hate extended string/keyboard material they "don't understand"!).

My take is that Zoomers, or anyone else, hasn't grown up "into music" ... at all ... otherwise the idea that it was progressive, baroque, romantic, whatever "style" would make no difference whatsoever ... but it does show the stuff that so many kids are exposed to ... and its violence to the idea of listening to music, instead of just a bunch of songs!

In my book/bok this is the music companies revenge for losing so many folks to their individual controls, and the fake and weird "numbers" that supposedly show the number 1 (Hello Virgin!!!) , pretty much says that the music companies do have enough control to make some money ... why show the numbers if they were losing? Yeah, I'm sure we get it!

I like to say/think that the state of FM radio in America, corporate owned, is the main problem, because what they play is very limited, and 50 years ago, you KNEW there was music in Detroit, Chicago, West Coast, East Coast and later Pacific NW. Today, it all sounds the same, and you really don't know much about the musicians, where they come from, and if they even are musicians. I don't dislike "rap", but there are many times when I question ... is this music? I'm not sure it is, or should be considered music!