It's true, there was good music that came out of the 90's, but so much of what got airplay was crap. It was hard to go from virtuosos to dudes who didn't even care if their guitars were in tune. I know that there was a lot from the 90's that didn't fall into that category, but there was an awful lot that did. That drove me away from what was popular at the time.
I think that's kinda true for every generation. Quite a bit of it is pure shit but a subset is pretty fucking awesome.
Also, there's quite a bit of grunge that I don't absolutely despise. I enjoy some of the alternative that led into it.
The early 90s were pretty rocking. Hell, that's when songs like Nothing Else Matters came out.
Right now, I'm in the middle of an experiment. I'm watching live television. I said I'd do it for the duration of the pandemic - not knowing it'd last this long. I'm a goddamned idiot. Anyhow, my next experiment is going to be listening to live radio. I dunno how long that'll last, but I'm going to explore current music.
The music that's surprised me the most are the songs my students are wanting to learn. They're invariably by self produced singer/songwriters, and they're great songs that are fun to play! Most of them have nice chord structures and are very well put together.
If I gave a shit, I'd be doing that self-produced and self-promoted thing to further my musical career.
The tools and resources available today are amazing, especially for promotion.
I'm working on trying to figure out how to make an HTML (multiple field) form output to a plain text version of the data inserted into the form.
So, like...
name
last name
age
favorite egg beater
Output to a plain text page that they can copy and paste to a forum.
These are the things I do with my time...
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