Will 2020 be the year without music?

[Pops OB]

No.

 

[Clark W]

I know there is already a thread out there about COVID-19, but I want to focus in on how 2020 will be remembered in the music history books.
We may be at the beginning of this thing. Already hundreds of shows have been cancelled for local bands. Dozens of tours have been put on hold. Behind the scenes, studio time is being cancelled. Video shoots are being cancelled. Band member are questioning the wisdom of even getting together to practice.
There will undoubtedly be a glut of material written during this period because...well...what the heck else is there to do. But for the foreseeable future, doing something with that material seems to be on indefinite hold.

Will this year be the end of the "Music industry" as we know it, and everything will change over to DIY recording and distribution?
Will webcasts, live streams, and "virtual touring" become a thing?
Will there just be a dead spot in releases for 2020 and everything will go back to business (for better or worse) in 2021?
Thoughts?

The music will not end. How it is delivered may change some, has changed some already, for the moment. I really think that 2020 will be known for innovation and thinking outside of the box when it comes to music delivery. Do I see it being permanent? No. But I do not seeing it going away completely either.

Example:
Two dear friends of mine do an acoustic gig at a very busy restaurant every two weeks. But because of the current situation the restaurant is only allowed to serve meals to go, curbside. So no gigs, or that's what they thought.

My two friends came up with an idea. This past Friday night for two hours, they played curbside at the restaurant, for free. They also live streamed it on Facebook. They had an actual tip bucket for drive up customers, and online tip jar for their livestream. They did quite well. So much so that they went back and did it again on Saturday night. It also helped the restaurant because the promotion of it the day before and then live on Facebook also helped drum up food orders.

Now as soon as restaurants are allowed to have dine in customers, they will be back and so will the musicians. But for now things are just being done differently than the norm. It's called survival. But it will also give a boost to an untapped medium of delivery, one we have already had, just not used very often.

In the future 2020 will be the year of expansion into delivery methods of all sort of things, not just music.

 

[devnulljp]

Right now, when people can't buy toilet paper, no one can relate to Jay-Z rapping about owning a 747, 20 Rolexes and Picassos hanging in his bathroom.

I'll wager very few people can relate to that. Maybe he should rap about having hand sanitizer and 20 rolls of toilet paper in his bathroom?

 

[_One//Man//Mutiny_]

My neighbors probably won't think so!

 

[factory presets]

I've received a few emails from Guitar Center and Sweetwater during the last few days for sales and specials on home recording equipment. They can see where things are headed for the immediate future.

Inside back page full of computer interfaces and condenser mics have been a staple of music shop catalogues for a number of years round my way. Maybe guitar specific shops are seen as some kind of new frontier by Focusrite et al.

But it would surprise me. Singer/songwriters being the share of the market that they are.

 

[Kipp Harrington]

It is what it is. Just going to roll with it. Nothing I can really do about it. WOODSHED time!!! It will just make me a better bass player.

 

[JRA]

Will 2020 be the year without music?
no. as long as there are musicians there will be music. it's just the way musicians do things....we play.

re-shuffling of the music biz socio-economic pecking order may manifest here and there, but there will always be music...even if things become dire --- think "titanic."

 

[OptimalOptimus]

Agreed. The last 20 years has been a vacuum of creativity and talent. This is the 'guitar hero' generation that never had to play a CD over and over again to learn a riff. Or singers sing in tune. Rather sad.

seeing the stupid insane shredder on whatever instrument on YouTube I think it is the opposite that is happening.
I think they have the talent ... they just lack the song writing to go with it.
Otherwise pop music and techno and EDM is all about the vibe, just need an idea of what you want and the computer will make it happens

 

[Peaveylover]

It's really the day the music "lied"
http://mileswmathis.com/holly.pdf

 

[Lagado]

The internet will be flooded with press and go muzak.

 

[MNAirHead]

What if this was the year of the real song... Someone in front of an acoustic guitar belting out and recording it

 

[casualmadness]

What people "need" right now is what they always "need": escapism - and for the majority Netflix will do the trick. Most people don't need music. At most they like consuming a bit of it from time to time. Unfortunately I don't see that changing anytime soon.

This entirely. For the masses, Netflix is the wonder drug of the new millennium. My wife is one of those people. She isn’t into music at all whereas I can’t imagine a life without music.

 

[brianrost]

Will webcasts, live streams, and "virtual touring" become a thing?

It will certainly accelerate the move to online performances. Once enough people have VR, expect the superstars to do remote shows.

 

[roccobass]

I'm not quite sure but I'm following the form. The betting shop has quite good odds running on "The Day That Music Died."

Not quite the repeat of February 3rd, 1959, but point taken. It has merit now. But the music hasn’t actually stopped. Just our ability to present it live at a venue as well as the audience being disallowed to be present to appreciate it.

 

[rashrader]

All of my vinyl just turned to dust.....

 

[Paulabass]

With the huge amount of live streaming going on (thank you to so many artists giving away their music in these tough times) 2020 will not be a year without music, it will be the year without revenue from music.

 

[smo]

I want to focus in on how 2020 will be remembered in the music history books.

Lost time.
Not much to be said that isn't obvious really.

 

[ShredLikeTim]

I’m using this time to “educate” my 3 kids ages 17 15 and 11 on “real” music.
Since they can’t go anywhere dinner is a time to laugh and connect. I’ve been playing a lot of 50s music at dinner time and giving them pieces of history about the artist, song timeframe etc. I try to connect the older artists to the crap that is out today, who influenced who. So far it’s working out good. Maybe for me, but it will be a year without “new” music for my kids.

 

[Fxpmusic]

I respect your position, but I totally disagree. IMO those rappers and DJs don't have what people need right now. People want to be heard, seen and have something they can relate to. Right now, when people can't buy toilet paper, no one can relate to Jay-Z rapping about owning a 747, 20 Rolexes and Picassos hanging in his bathroom.

but many rappers are true folk-like story tellers. I think Kendrick Lamar can be as valid and important as Neil Young at this moment just like any other moment. Even DJs! At some point people wanna dance their worries away, even if it is in their living room. Music heals y’know?

Different styles for different people and as much as you may never get into hip-hop, the Jay-Z fan in her apartment trying to figure out how she’s gonna go through this is not gonna suddenly get into Dylan...

 

[BogeyBass]

yes they took it

my whole life has been shows and festivals

gone because 300 people died

absolute complete bull krap
i thought 800 watt practice amps was the end.

nope it got worse