@divegeester
So much has changed since then - good and bad - life offered less possibilities and was less complicated. The internet makes everything so very different and demanding - it insists we are always present and available.
@mchill saidNonsense. The way people consume music has changed completely. This has been changing the music scene drastically for over a decade.
The internet is a tool - nothing more. It won't change how people evaluate bands.
Only a few years ago, artists' record companies were deleting thousands and thousands of YouTube videos of their products.
Now, artists' record companies are putting whole albums up on YouTube for free as soon as they are released.
Furthermore, millions upon millions of people are zeroing in on singles and EPs and playlists... and they are frequently not bothered with albums, and "album tracks" etc. etc. anymore.
The way people evaluate bands is changing apace.
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But yeah, I get what you're saying about the difference between so much being instantly available all the time versus time-bound incarnates first having to learn about an event and then having to make the effort to attend it.
Maybe, 30 years post availability of public internet some of us are not appreciative enough of our localized, temporary incarnations and whatever value (and dangers/opportunities) of physical presence among others, but we have also had a couple years of forced separation, which might skew our thinking on this matter.
Or, looking at this another way, maybe we will return to the more localized events as occurred pre-stadium decades, where only a few dozen people might be present.
We don't necessarily need to feed the egos of people who miss having millions of people paying attention to them.
It used to be that a song, a story, a poem, or an illustration would be enough to inspire someone, without a large crowd, or any crowd at all.