To which age group do youse belong?

Hi,

The "commerciality" is just that ... sounds like! There is no explanation needed, and even Vangelis had been speaking of it in 1975. I find the only folks that don't like the term are those that continually post and support the status quo ... like it never changes in history and life!

I know that most folks listen to a lot of different things, and it is obvious in many folks posting from different countries. The niche is "out there" (as you say), but we don't talk about it, and continually go back to the most commercial and less progressive music of all, specially in respect to the origin of what the whole thing was about ... no rules (so to speak) and a complete turn around from the AM radio forms of music and style ... and here we are ... and you are not happy with the "insult", when it is not an insult ... it is a fact, as you look at the number of threads.

I suppose that we need some of these folks to make up the numbers of folks posting ... but I have my wonders in my head about how good this is for the viability of the style and the ability of the players themselves ... and many are actually afraid to do something that does not have some kind of familiar sound or effect, lest they feel their audience will leave ... this has been happening in radio since the 70's when the great American Rape of FM radio took place, and all of a sudden, it just became another hit station, which almost all FM radio stations these days are ... and sadly, many of the "progressive shows" on the internet have a bit of the same sentiments ... I do appreciate some shows here and there and that series of shows giving us all kinds of Jeff Beck was nice for a change. That is about the "artistry" that was created, and it is a valid study of how the music developed. But just the hits?

There are, however, some strange bits here ... and it was in a Steve Hillage special a while back ... " ... in Europe everyone wants to hear American music. Here they want the far out there stuff!... It makes it hard to decide what to play!" So, yeah, there are bits and pieces of quarks, strangeness and charm in all of it!