The anouncement of the "death of the band" is premature.I dont believ this for a second, nothing can replace live music played by humans, as the experience and the very real positive benifits of an audience comming together can not be digitised, in spite of the many attempts to package high tech simulated environments. There are hundreds of thousands of full time touring musical groups world wide, and millions of music festivals every year. Just because the bar is high, very high, to become a working musician, and has been forever, does not give credence to the notion that some nameless randoms get to make the call because there tube vid got 3 views.

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AlecSchueler 8 months ago | parent [-]

> nothing can replace live music played by humans, as the experience and the very real positive benifits of an audience comming together can not be digitised

I wish it were true but I'm also very aware of how many people I see in audiences today are scrolling instagram while the band plays.

> There are hundreds of thousands of full time touring musical groups world wide, and millions of music festivals every year.

Those figures seem very high, do you have a source for these? Or even how you worked it out as a guesstimate?

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metalman 8 months ago | parent [-]

8 billion people, maybe 9 billion...200000 bands that gives one band for every 42500 people..... 23 bands in a city of a million was a pure guess, but low right

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AlecSchueler 8 months ago | parent [-]

But most bands aren't touring, right? Where does a million+ festivals come from?

	▲	metalman 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		all bands tour at one point or another, unless they are "housebands" million + festivals is from my definition of "festive",a million, is a low estimate, again