Charlie FiftyWatts

Seriously though, it is an interesting thought that one little twist, one otherwise minor event gone viral, could (and regularly does) change the direction of things. Thing is though - for me anyway - I'm from the 70's, and what I see is people now use pitch correction and they push buttons to make synthetic noises. Could you change THAT overnight? Could you cause a rush of youngsters clamoring to buy real instruments? Guitars perhaps, and acoustic drum sets? Well, I'm a pessimist, so don't ask me! But yea, it'd be nice if a song that really caught on, just happened to be doing things musically, instead of rappy-disney-vocodery. It could happen. I just think you gotta be younger than I, to get excited at possibilities though. Because change is more like steering an ocean liner than a sports car. (You can turn the wheel sharply and almost nothing seems to happen at all, and then ever so slowly it begins to alter its course...over a long passage of time). PERHAPS such a gradual sea change needs to be already under way, before one precipitous event, one Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan moment, can jolt the new direction into stark visibility. So look at what is afoot already. What is in place now, which could add up to something else? There's your jumping off point. From there you just need to do the gitchiest coolest jig of the moment ever, and people might go "You gotta see THIS!"And then everyone will want to copy it. THAT'S THE PATTERN YOU SEEK. .... So: what does everything that's currently in place add up to? What's the next obvious evolvement? And then put the light on that new thing with an undeniable #1 hit of a tune. ....It's harder than it sounds to do, except for that one lucky guy who fell off the log while napping, but this is what I've seen happen over the years. Oh one caveat: it's very unlikely things will change back to a previous state as if it could be a return from a lapse. Only an old hippy would wish such a thing (and I do). So maybe what will happen will be the death of guitar entirely (hasn't that already occurred?), so people will push buttons now (don't they?), and everyone will make noises like an excited seal over it..... *sigh* But someone young could elaborate on this area properly, not me. I will head back to my porch rocking chair and my lemonade now. (Oh when you get old you aren't even allowed to party any more) (Yea, aging does suck. Don't do it!)

First there was music, then there was crap, which - by butterfly effect - resulted from someone penning a new tune while sitting on the john. In forced deference to the inescapable holocaust-like results of that event, I am releasing an album which joins the craze for fecal ejections instead of actual music. I've invented a new musical instrument for this: it's an LP record turntable with a Perry Como Hits (His Wife) album on it. What you do is flop a fresh pile of doody onto it, and as it spins helplessly,like Donald Trump on the Merry Go Round which has been his time as President of the reality show, the stink (which is actually a warm gas) thermally activates a circuit alternately, which produces synthetic noises. So it's a sort of pickup, and the poop is your plectrum. BRILLIANT! I'm calling my breakthrough album "Symphony From A Long Dark Passage".