I don't think that's true, I think the definition of live music has changed. Now, in the top 100 list of top earning entertainers is a bunch of DJ's making millions, yes millions from live shows. These people are not what we tend to think of as DJ's ie, spinning records at a sock hop.

You have to look up these guys on YT and see some of their shows. They are huge, thousands of people and it's not just the DJ, he'll have guest artists with him, they're working the crowd just as well as the Rat Pack ever did.

I watched a tutorial about some kid in the UK who's apparently a superstar DJ. He gets raw unmixed tracks from various artists and then does a complete live remix of them including blending the original tracks with parts he's creating himself using tons of software and other equipment. It was truly amazing what he did. Him and the interviewer were comparing what he does to another superstar DJ who would take the exact same raw tracks and create something entirely different with them. Think about that a minute. I had never heard of that before. Current stars releasing their raw multitracks for DJ's to mess with? Would Sinatra or Aerosmith ever do that? No way and that's the problem we have. We don't even think in those terms so we can't begin to comment on it.

We, including me, have zero clue about this stuff. We don't understand it, we don't relate to it, we completely ignore it.

It is live music? You bet it is, just check out those vids if you don't believe me. When I posted about Pier Avenue, I'm writing from my pov as well as everybody in this thread. Those kids are not looking at these bars for their dance party fix. They're going to other clubs we don't even know exist for these local live DJ shows.

Bob

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