You make me think, Jerry. I guess sometimes I've said that folk music is all about the music, and rock music is all about the performer; that folk music is meant for everybody to sing, but rock music is meant to be sold to consumers who listen but don't participate in the music itself.
But maybe I'm wrong - in my later years of attending rock concerts, people didn't just sit during a performance. I remember one Bonnie Raitt concert where everybody was dancing at the foot of the stage, and the line between audience and performer almost disappeared. In my own son't concerts, like this one, everybody dances during every songs.
So that's the way it ought to be - about the music, and about the unity that music can bring to us. When music is only about making money, the whole point of it is lost.
-Joe-