This was a Facebook entry by a recording engineer/friend. Here’s a view from the helm…A recent history of what has happened. I think it’s worth reading and pondering. As to fixing…that’s left to us.

I honestly sit paralyzed with no idea of how to proceed through the current music industry. I have no clue of how people find new music they enjoy.

In 1996 I received a lecture as to what a revolution the internet would be for the music business. Instead it systematically destroyed the part that was working along with the corporate parts that weren’t.

Most often I’m frustrated and confounded that not only do people have free access to downloading art that took a great deal of time, effort and money to create, but that there is no longer guilt associated with taking it.

Combine that with the fact that we now have no filter between milliions of postings from Bobby’s first “Twinkle Twinkle” to the latest release from your favorite band, and nobody knows where to find new good music.

In five years we went from the austere interpretations of corporate record labels and focus group driven radio to media overload and internet chaos.

Check your favorite category on CD baby, then realize that you would have to listen to 5 seconds of each song everyday for the rest of your life without a break and you would still not sift through enough material to find that which touches your heart.

This is, in my opinion, NO improvement.