The so called "love" for live music has been a myth since the 40's or 50's imho. The only reason young people liked live bands back in the day is that was the only way they could get some loud music to party with. You couldn't ask Dad in 1963 to haul his huge Hi Fi stereo system down to the garage or dance hall for a party so the band was it. Young people never cared about live bands except for the huge concerts, they just wanted to party. Now that they can using a DJ, they're fine with that. In the 80's the sythesizer/prerecorded stuff started coming in. Miami Vice was the watershed. I remember reading in Keyboard Magazine at the time an interview with Jan Hammer and he was talking about his 200K Sinclavier sampler and how he did the whole soundtrack for each weeks show in his house. Little or no live players needed. Even with the cost of his equipment it was way cheaper to do that than hire 20 musicians every week in a studio. At the same time there was a musicians strike in Vegas over using tracks for the big shows. There was a compromise of some sort reached but the casinos won the right to use tracks at least some of the time and it's gone downhill from there.

Bob

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