Some Schmo wrote:honorentheos wrote:But I admit, much of my past relationship with music also included participation and concert going which is decidedly different now.
I haven't been to a really big concert in years, so I'm not sure what the experience is like today. I've gotten used to listening to a lot of local bands live, though. There's a ton of that in these parts, and some pretty decent acts.
We try to get to small venue shows as often as we can get an evening date which includes local as well as touring artists as well. My daughter took up guitar a few years back and her band sometimes does small venue performances as well which are fun for what they are. I feel lucky to have had as much music in my life as I've had and appreciate having it still.
Like you said, there is something about great performers that is transcendent. Even as a TBM I couldn't deny a really good concert was a spiritual high that few church experiences matched. I can only imagine Sting would be one of the truly great performers, too.
I think that magic is part of what gives older music that nostalgic pull that newer music will never have for me, too. Even though I listen to a fair amount of new music, possibly more than my daughter even, it will never become part of a lake side guitar singalong or one sung back at the stage hands in the air with hundreds of other people feeling the exact same feeling. It will probably be all of those things and more for someone younger, though, and maybe in twenty years they'll be playing them next to Zepplin, Nirvana, U2, and Death Cab on the classics station. It was a little surreal when I realized for my daughter's generation the music I listened to in high school is equivilent to my listening to The Who or The Doors and thinking I was discovering some long lost secret knowledge...
