Originally Posted By: HearToLearn
What I see missing from just about every discussion though is how social media isn't just an artist thing. There are MANY fan groups that on there own become influencers. I have one daughter who is 22 and another who is just 14 that have a fan account that they started, got hacked, and had to restart. The newly made account already has a fairly impressive following. It's to the point where they have record companies approach THEM.


Talk about an insightful and timely point. Look at this:

New York Phil taps "Influencers" to lure millennials

I read your post a few hours ago and then I see this. Can't get any better than that!

I sincerely hope this works and the Phil gets a decent number of younger subscribers. I for one don't believe millennials are single minded in their musical tastes any more than we are. But the music scene as a whole is heavily tilted in one direction though. Which is why you could also be right Roger about good writing and lyrics could attract some of them too.

I somewhat disagree with your comment about musicians and their equipment though. We play for audiences so what the crowd wants to hear has a direct influence as to what equipment manufacturers put out and I made this exact comment when I got back from the NAMM show a few years ago. Roland had a big booth and it was all stuff to create what I just said. They had zero full size keyboard introductions or even current ones set up for display, it was all mini controllers and synths for computer based producers.

To be fair Roland had already put out the FA series which is lower end but still decent keyboards for cover players but it doesn't seem to be their main focus any more and this new Fantom seems to validate that. For 30 years Roland was all about live performers doing all of our favorite classics. Well, it's still live performers but they're not doing anything we're at all familiar with.

Bob


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