Just before I go to Tool, I have a question which has been bubbling away in my mind for a while now but came to the surface today at lunchtime when I told a bunch of my friends I was off to see Tool and they were like "huh? whassat then?". When I go to gigs, and the same is probably true of those here, there are a whole bunch of people up to their early twenties, a handful in their later twenties and almost no-one over thirty - and then there's me, bouncing away like a mad thing.
What happens - why do people so suddenly switch off on live music? For those of you who are younger, how long do you think you'll keep going to live gigs, of new bands I mean, not the oldies like Rolling Stones are today, but the people coming out with new sounds?
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most music and gig marketing is dumbed ...
most music and gig marketing is dumbed down for a younger audience (where the easy cash is), which doesn't stop 'older' people being fans, but does make it harder to attract them to that sort of gig or CD.
go to a gig that hasn't been marketed to teens and you'll see a lot of thirty-somethings styling it out.
It can feel a little odd when you can ...
It can feel a little odd when you can tell that you're about ten years older than a lot of the audience at a gig. But I reckon the best thing to do is just enjoy the music and have a good time (yay!)
I just saw "Plaster Caster", a documentary about Cynthia Plaster Caster, a woman who's been making molds of rock star penises since she was 19. She's in her 50s now and is still doing it. She still goes out and sees cool bands play.
I hope I'm like that when I get older. I'd hate to be like all the oldies packing Western Springs to see the BeeGees performing.
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Music is ageless, it's just a shame ...
Music is ageless, it's just a shame you have to get to a certain age to understand that is true,
I don't know if it is a age thing so much,.....I know people in their early teens through to people in their 70's and because they are not listening to the "main stream" are meat with a blank stare.
It's something that I have come to see over the last while that most 20 something's are going to gigs
1. because they are at pubs
2. because it is "the place to be"
and has very little to do with the music,
so as they "grow up" and leave the club circuit behind they also leave the music behind....and as a professional people watcher that people over thirty fall in to two groups...they are there to pull a sweet young thing or they are there for the music
I'm going to get a bit soppy here but that's what's great about the NZM.com we are here for the music.....dreams of nzm.com throwing birthday gigs where we could all wear our icon shirts and have a raving good time.