Music is dead not because there is no money left in it, but rather there is no dignity or magic left. With small clubs asking musicians to work on a business model with complete disregard for quality of the music, the current system favors people with few friends and large numbers of insecure acquaintances who looking to anyone or anything to look cool over artists. The way to build a fan base who are capable of being of being moved by music is by playing out, no schmoozing in. I don't see this is as a possibility anymore. I think there was time when musicians cared about the world that they were living in and they shared their humanity with the audience and their band mates. Now they are just a bunch of posturing, half-dead cartoons concerned only where they are in the hierarchy of small time clubs that are using them for drinking customers.
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