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09-13-2017, 05:46 AM
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Bovered? Look a' my face. Bovered? 🤡
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09-13-2017, 05:58 AM
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09-13-2017, 06:06 AM
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end of an era?
An era closing down, I think not. Guitars may wane in popularity, just as ukes did (look at them now), but I cannot think of a single instrument that offers the versatility of the guitar, combined with its portability. Bass to treble, rhythm or melody, sing with it or solo. A person can readily learn to play it, but will always have musical challenges if they wish to improve. What else does all this?
I suspect what may be happening is that less young folks are playing anything. In school, they have to make more and more time in their crowded schedules for math and science, technical things. Without school hours increasing, that leaves less time for subjects such as English, history, sports and the arts. Spelling is barely taught any more. My children and their friends, who are bright and have been adults for a long time now, cannot spell as well as my generation. They have spell check of course (if they use it), but that doesn't work when writing by hand (for which there still is a need). Maybe handwriting skills will cease to be taught - in some places that has happened. After school, their time is often regimented as exhausted parents ferry kids back and forth to organized activities. Fortunately, music is one organized activity - but there are so many more other fun things to do competing with it than we experienced as kids. When I attend a festival, I always notice the ages of three groups: the audience, the volunteers, and the performers. This last group seems to be getting younger, which is a great cause for hope. When you have little kids and a budding career, you have little time to volunteer, so I'd expect the volunteer group to be a bit older. But we need all three to keep it going.
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09-13-2017, 06:13 AM
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So, here is an interesting lesson on human nature, social media and the distortions of reality.
EC said this statement tongue-in-cheek (as mentioned above). The ragazine writes the article and even concludes that they don't think this is the case. But.....to sell more copies, the ragazine takes his statement out of context and uses it as an attention grabbing headline. People read this and social media buzzes about it.
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09-13-2017, 06:31 AM
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Eric was joking.
There's far more truth to the premise of the article than is being recognized in this thread so far.
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09-13-2017, 06:42 AM
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They may go out and rave to various "dance" music, but they don't play it at home much.
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09-13-2017, 06:44 AM
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I see acoustic (mostly) guitars in the background of a significant amount of tv commercials. I think this is a good thing. (But I'm taking the 'one month free' Shaw promo package back to Shaw today.
 )I think all current guitar players are ambassadors who collectively have great influence on the future popularity of the guitar. (That's why post whores, those that consistently take offense to others' posts {where no offense is intended} and just simple internet 'haters' concern me.) Youtube & affordable home recordings encourage me. WPS: I'll still enjoy picking, reflecting, and additional guitars. Probably trump, imo, is the historic accuracy of predictions -- they're so often embarrassingly inaccurate. Jmo. Edit: Thanks Treenewt -- 'we' needed that.
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09-13-2017, 06:49 AM
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pfft... what does Eric Clapton know about guitars anyway.
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09-13-2017, 06:51 AM
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Well, all I know is my 11 year old had to write a paragraph about something she loves, and you know what she chose to expound on?
The guitar. In her words: "I just love the sound the guitar makes. It's like a breeze blowing over flowers, or a mother's voice tenderly soothing her crying child. It's the best sound." It's not dead yet, fellas.
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09-13-2017, 07:11 AM
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Love this! You have a wonderful child there sir!
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09-13-2017, 07:26 AM
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Like many have already stated, Eric was joking.
Also, the article did not say that interest in guitars is going down, just that sales are down. The article ends with this: MusicRadar's opinion? Yes, the big guns are hurting, but the market has been saturated. We're also seeing longer-lasting low-priced instruments, the rise of home studio musicians less concerned with owning indestructible tour 'horses and, at the other end of the scale, a cottage industry of small, independent luthiers attracting more discerning buyers. In addition, while figures may be down overall over the last decade, it's likely not a coincidence that across that period most of the developed, guitar-buying world has been in recovery from the worst recession since the Great Depression. It may be time to worry, but we've been reading about the death of guitar music since the '90s, so if it's truly kicking the bucket, we've yet to hear the clang...
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09-13-2017, 07:34 AM
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I was subscribing to Guitar Player back through much of the 80s and recall worried players writing in about having double finding work during the dreadful disco era.
Seems to me that while guitar-based bands and performers are not as visible in "pop" music as once was the case, what with Hip-Hop and all, there's still a very active scene among singer-songwriters, all sorts of niche musicians, the current "folk" and "Americana" scene, etc, etc. We just played at a benefit concert for our son (lost his wife in a house fire) and every one of the musicians present had guitars. These folks are mostly part of the surprisingly-active "Pagan" music scene and many of 'em play festivals and sell CDs quite under the pop-music radar. And of course there's the whole bluegrass scene.
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