[margorczynski]

Actually from what I've heard from musicians is that digital made living just from music really hard. First it was piracy and now it is streaming, the days where an average whole band could live off playing and creating music are gone.

AI will be the nail to the coffin where it'll almost completely becomes a hobby.

[metalman]

The anouncement of the "death of the band" is premature.I dont believ this for a second, nothing can replace live music played by humans, as the experience and the very real positive benifits of an audience comming together can not be digitised, in spite of the many attempts to package high tech simulated environments. There are hundreds of thousands of full time touring musical groups world wide, and millions of music festivals every year. Just because the bar is high, very high, to become a working musician, and has been forever, does not give credence to the notion that some nameless randoms get to make the call because there tube vid got 3 views.

[AlecSchueler]

> nothing can replace live music played by humans, as the experience and the very real positive benifits of an audience comming together can not be digitised

I wish it were true but I'm also very aware of how many people I see in audiences today are scrolling instagram while the band plays.

> There are hundreds of thousands of full time touring musical groups world wide, and millions of music festivals every year.

Those figures seem very high, do you have a source for these? Or even how you worked it out as a guesstimate?

[metalman]

8 billion people, maybe 9 billion...200000 bands that gives one band for every 42500 people..... 23 bands in a city of a million was a pure guess, but low right

[AlecSchueler]

But most bands aren't touring, right? Where does a million+ festivals come from?

[metalman]

all bands tour at one point or another, unless they are "housebands" million + festivals is from my definition of "festive",a million, is a low estimate, again