Texas Guest couldn't have said it better, but he's still wrong. People go to see a lot of live music. The top 100 US concert tours draw upwards of 30 million people a year--and the average ticket price is about $50. And again, that's just to top--there is a lot more live music out there than that. And it brings in a lot more money.

People still go out to see live entertainment, and they spend a lot more money on it than they ever did before. They just maybe don't like to hear the music that we like very much--or maybe we don't happen to live in areas where people like the kind of music that we do very much.

It's time to wake up and smell the coffee--we're getting older, musical tastes change, and the people who spend the money and fill the seats are a different generation.

Time to re-define what we do, find different ways to express ourselves, recognize and appreciate what is out there, and to stop expecting the present to be what the past was.

Is that clear enough?