Guitar Center CEO: how to keep new guitar buyers; focus on making “serious musicians”

[pamosmusic]

Sometimes I think the Old Folks should focus a little more on their own critical reading skills and not worry so much about the younguns.

[Cunamara]

As for jazz, it's already the music of a couple of generations ago.

As compared to Beethoven or Mozart?

But I tke your point. "All The Things You Are" is the music of the great-grandparents of today's 20-year-olds. But we have to focus on the fact that those are great songs and not their generational relevance. 20-year-olds can hear them and appreciate them, and there are 20-year-olds in the audience (sometimes). Unfortunately, current pop music mostly does not provide a good foundation for adaptation into jazz. "Oops I Did It Again" is probably not going to be a new jazz standard, although Richard Thompson covers it in his "1000 Years Of Popular Music" show.

On the other hand, we have Julian Lage and Matteo Mancuso and other young virtuoso- even genrational- players.

[58flame]

Im so lucky to have grown up in a musical family. And I'm super fortunate to have had the greatest jazz television show ever made to watch every day - Mr Rogers Neighborhood. It wasn't a guitar store that inspired me to be a serious musician.

It was the people in my "neighborhood".

[Strat-itis]

Every now and then I run into super classic statements in the youtube comments. For reference here's one:

'All Hendrix does is rape box 1.'

I ran into a super classic one in reference to the kids being deviant topic in this thread:

'Young people always get tons of flak, but kids today should actually be proud. They are the first generation able to make old people stop wishing they were young.'