Good people,

It is simply a matter of corporate control of just about everything that can be worthwhile --- in the name of making more $$$$$.

Yes, the more things change, the more they get different! But this is why we respect alternative music/sounds where it's not "them" that chooses what we hear. And to the extent that we pick and choose our own sounds impinging on our brains, we, personally and individually, are still in control of the great cacaphony. We ARE, then, harkening back to a moment on the time line when NATURAL SELECTION was the determining factor.

It is the ORAL TRADITION that we miss. Nature vs. corporate dictatorship of, not the proletariate, but of the rich and powerful who run the many and various music businesses and everything else.

Art Thieme