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Most of the gigs I'm doing now are supporting progressive rock type audiences who are LOVELY people - supported Barclay James Harvest just before christmas with a guitar and a DL4 doing stuff in odd timings and I'm doing one with Fish of Marillion - they like having me as an opener as i just turn up and only need one lead from the desk :) - really supportive audience. So although my stuff isn't really of that genre it still works as they tend to have been exposed to Fripp etc
SO while the genre (prog in this case) is still relevant for the older audience for the under 25s there isn't the stigma that my generation of 30-40 year olds have about it - lots of younger people into "progressive/post rock/odd" music that don;t care about the genre see Field Music, Squarepusher, Radiohead etc Matt Stevens www.mattstevensguitar.com
On 14 Feb 2011, at 12:33, Doc Rossi wrote: I'm still getting a lot of flack from booking agents because I "cross boundaries" and from reviewers because I mix repertoires. It seems that there are still people who don't know what to make of someone who simply plays music, just as there are people who still buy CDs. Granted, I work in conservative areas - traditional music, baroque music, rock...
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Matt Stevens <mattstevensguitar@btinternet.com> wrote: Genre boundaries are defo coming down along with a lot of genre prejudice. For under 25's this seems less relevant. When i was a lad there were real perceived boundaries of cool - and if you said you liked prog in the NME it was a a very bad idea :)
Now mass media has fallen by the wayside to an extent this is less important for listeners. Personally i never cared - i just wanted to hear a decent chord progression :) On 14 Feb 2011, at 12:17, Gareth Whittock wrote: Coincidentally, I've just finished a "free listening" session with my music students playing favourite tracks - they don't give a damn about genres. I was struck by their borderless appreciation of music.
How heartening!
Peace
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> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:56:37 +0100
> Subject: Re: Why does mainstream seem more like , downstream these days?
> From: perboysen@gmail.com
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
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> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Matt Stevens
> <mattstevensguitar@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > New experimental music is happening all over the world right now - kids
> > messing with tech - they don't care about definitions of the Avant Garde.
>
> I'm with Matt on this. "Genres" are obsolete. The funny part is that
> it actually was the explosive growth of genres and sub genres that led
> to today's more or less "genre-less" culture. One huge backlash of
> this development was the fall of the record labels about ten years
> ago; as markets and sub markets for selling music grew just as
> manifold as the genre pletora it became impossible to hire marketing
> staff that could effectively promote releases in a credible way (as in
> "knowing one's shit"). Also, inside each sub genere there soon weren't
> enough potential customers to support the business idea of a record
> label. Great days for DJ's though!
>
> Per
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