[CaptainCrunch]

I think that as music fans we have to get used to the fact that the industry is going to change forever because of social media.

Reading some of the auto biographies of bands from my generation they really suffered to get notice. They played crappy bars, starved to death, did any kind of gig that they could get and prayed to get noticed. But that experience also forced them to write better music, refine their sound and refine their band and their musician ship.

Now all that you have to do is post on Youtube or any other like sites and hope that you generate hits. Hits = record deals, then they get into the studio and the music companies refine their sound and auto tune the sh%t out of it.

Its now the generation of the disposable one hit wonder musician, and its pretty sad.

I think thats why the quality of music is going down hill and we're getting plasti stamp it all sounds the same crap like Lady Gaga, Katey Perry, Bieber, Keisha and others. Because all of that music is written by the same people, played the same way and then fixed with a computer.

I miss the days when you would go and see a Cult concert for all of its warts and the leadsinger passing out half way through the show. Or you'd go to a Van Halen concert where the opening act was a polka band. Or you'd go to a triumph concert or a Colin James show and get blown away by the musicianship.

Now you go to a concert to marvel at the outfits and synchronized dance moves.

Even the harder edged bands are trying to follow the Nicholback model to success.

Now excuse me while I put on some Rolling Stones.