Live Music – Who is REALLY Killing it? – The Main suspects
Live music has been in crisis as ticket prices soar and artists mime to backing tapes – does this spell the end for the integrity of live music?
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@walterperry6213
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
#1 – Almost everyone that I would like to see in concert, is dead. #2 – I would NEVER pay the the ticket prices that they are asking for these days UNLESS they can bring John and George back to life and put them on stage with Paul and Ringo!!!!!!
@vicariousjohnson9823
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Easily 9 of 10 people I see talking are usually women who, on their second strawberry daiquiri, suddenly need to talk to another woman about some other woman at work.
@nickpatten5263
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
I went to see Steve Hackett in 2022 in Adelaide Australia and had waited years for the opportunity to see him only to have an idiot sitting in front of me talking to his 'girlfriend' and singing badly in front of me. The guys next to me and I were glad when he left for the bar but our happiness was short lived when he returned more intoxicated and louder than before. The fact I'm writing about it here means he took the shine off of what would otherwise have been an even better gig than it was, it was bloody fantastic actually. Everyone else especially in the quieter moments was respectful but old mate couldn't shut up. I paid to hear Steve not some drunk and his 'girlfriend'. Happens all too often unfortunately especially with seated quieter style music where you want to appreciate the musicality of the band as well as the whole show itself.
@oolongoolong789
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Judging by the phenomenal success of huge festivals like Glastonbury I'd say that live music is far from dead – in fact, in rude health!
@tonygaray3233
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
im 64 and been going to concerts since i was 14 i more often than big shows i cant afford go to littie local shows . i like to support new artists which is kind of what we were doing back then
@Mick_Ts_Chick
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Live music is alive where I live (near Raleigh, NC). There's always a concert going on somewhere around here. If not here, then Greensboro or Charlotte. I haven't had the misfortune of people holding phones in my way, since the seating goes upwards pretty sharply. The ticket prices are bad, but I go to only certain concerts anyway. The venues seem disorganized sometimes, as evidenced by the great parking debacle at the Paul McCartney concert im Winston-Salem at Truist Field. Look it up online, as it was really f****d up, and lots of people missed the concert due to screw ups at the venue. Sir Paul was gracious enough to postpone the start of the concert to allow more people to get inside the venue. We luckily only missed the first 15 minutes, but others were stuck in traffic til it was over!
@sunsin1592
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Lots of so-called legacy bands just need to hang it up. Crazy how people are dropping hundreds to see old men who just can't sing anymore. I pretty much just go to smaller venues anyhow and usually the crowds there are more hard-core fans. I've seen a number of good shows in these settings. And, incidentally, the most engaged fans have been at the K-Pop and J-Rock shows. Go catch a performance of Band Maid or (G)I-DLE or MAMAMOO and pretty much the whole crowd knows all the songs and sings along, even though they're not in English. Much better than seeing the faux Eagles or Crue, or Guns-n-Roses. I'd rather see Myles Kennedy with Slash any day.
@patramirez5264
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Bands in the early days use to just show up and rock out.too much theatrics have hurt rock music.i just want to see a great band with a backdrop and cool lights rocking out.everything else just drives up ticket prices and it makes it fake.real rock is live and in your face.
@ianlovell6709
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
It's OK to take a few pictures while they're on stage, but to constantly wave it around trying to film everything is not OK. Didn't Adele stop a show to call out someone on their phone
@STEVENPAGE-ds9lo
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Last night I went to see the who at Derby cricket ground, some sound problems for sure but no excuse for some of the behaviour, very large numbers knew nothing about the who or the music, and many were intent on getting hammered! Why did they come!? Go figure? Continuous loud talking and the pricless ignorance of the continuous repeat of the comment "they have played an Elton John song" (pinball).
@ianemery4355
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Well saw The Who at Derby Cricket club yesterday!! Bizarre talking over the set! going backwards and forwards for beer! Big reaction to Pinball Wizard behind us Oh they've done an Elton John song!! I'm being serious!!
Group of people in front had their backs to the stage never applauded talked all the way through!! Then said what a bag of s**t! At the end!!
So so sad!! The who were picking this vibe up at the end!!
I'm puzzled why go to a gig to get drunk and chat to your mates!! And not bother about the band playing?? Odd times indeed!!
@padraigcollins6525
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Much though I hate people videoing shows on their mobile phones, crowd behaviour was much worse in the past. It used to be common to spit at the bands. How did that disgusting idea ever become a thing? And at an outdoor metal show I saw people pissing in bottles and then throwing it, without a cap on, at other people. Two people also died in a crush at that same show – Castle Donnington, 1988 – but that’s another story. So, I’ll take being annoyed by mobile phones over spitting/pissing/death any day.
@bennyscomin
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
ELP……….3 guys on stage, no backing tracks, no supplemental players, no cell phones, no problem being in the moment…….just stunned audiences
@andrewcarr5923
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
I consider myself fortunate to have seen so many acts live before the cursed mobile phone revolution, just artist and audience together, happy days !
@michaelroche4559
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Great sarcastic wit in this video. Which dead relative to bring to the gig? Bravo
@alexlifeson6917
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
I stopped going to concerts 8 years ago for all of the reasons you mentioned. I'm lucky enough to remember a time when you could go to a show and actually watch and listen to performers without a moron constantly blocking your view with their phone so they can take their shitty photos. As far as "musicians" defending miming/lip syncing, if they're not playing live at a live gig, then it isn't LIVE! I don't care anymore anyway since most of my favorite artists are either dead or don't play anymore – and I'm not interested in anyone out there who is touring.
@kguen6993
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Drink driving laws in Australia
@outoforder2162
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Ticket prices, backing tracks, phones, and wimpy bands who used to play loud (Long Live Motorhead..) who now play through half stacks and whine about their tinnitus have all killed live music.
@Foul_Quince
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Actually, Barry, reading the comments column and people's frustrations with ticketing agencies, presales and queues etc brought something that occurred to me when I was waiting for my Taylor Tickets and watching the kiddies' heads explode in the Twitter feed as they stamped their feet and huffed and puffed for their tickets (not for a moment to imply that any of your august an eminently sensible viewers would act as so). The average Joe doesn't understand that these days, there is no queue. When you go onto a website for tickets, you're entering at best a lottery, at worst the Hunger Games. (not that I have any odea what the Hunger Games are but my kids assure me it is an apt metaphor.) It all has to with what are called F5s (that's a genericized term – no matter who makes the product, they just get called that – like any tissue is a Kleenex. Is that synecdoche? I don't think it is.. is it metonymy, perhaps?) Anyway, they're basically the Door Bitches who let you, you and not you into Club Database and make the rest of the schlubs wait until a few stagger out and some more get let it. Except there's no line, you're just pulled not-quite-at-random but there's nothing you can do about it out of an amorphous blob of humanity. That's why people have to wait for tickets and people who arrived after them get tickets before them. If they didn't do this, the database would crash the millisecond it opened as, in the case of the sale I was on 2.5 million requests hit it at once.
@PostModernTribe
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
As someone who has been a working musician for almost four decades, I can tell you that, yes, live music is dying, and the reasons for it: money and expectations. (Follow the money and follow the technology.) It is cheaper for some place to hire a DJ and have the people coming hear exactly what they are used to hearing. It is also expensive to have the insurance for a place where live music is played. It was never easy to be a working musician, ever. But now it has gone from live music being common and expected, to something a novelty. As for clubs, most that have survived have been bought out by corporations such as Clear Channel, so young bands cannot develop the way they used to by playing in bars or even coffee shops. There are a few great YouTube channels that can explain this better than I can andgive first hand experience about how hard it is to be on the road as an independent artist.
@JamieMeyers-zo1kz
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
I haven't been to a stadium or arena show in years. The damn ticket prices were too high even before Covid. Plus you have to sign up or pay to get "presale", etc. Not my cup of tea at all. Over the past decade or so I've discovered that I can have more fun at small act shows in tiny venues where a lot of the boorish asshole fans don't seem to hang out than I could at any large name act show. Plus I can say hi to the artist and get a signed CD or two after the show. I think there are a lot of potentially great newer artists out there who could invigorate the whole process but the industry is rigged against them. The Stones, Springsteen, Zep, Yes, etc., all had serious airplay on the major radio stations of the day. MTV and VH-1 supplemented that in the 80's and into the 90's. Now how does one find out about the best up and coming bands to begin with? Mainstream rock radio won't play anything recorded after 1985. I listen to newer stuff on Sirius XM sometimes but the stuff they play there is mostly pretty bland. I gave tickets to see Jackson Browne at a fairly large venue in August and it will be the first gig at a venue of that size I've been to probably since 2006 or so. Hope the crowd isn't as asshole-ly as I fear. PS – at a Bruce Cockburn show I went to a couple years a couple behind us loudly broke up right before the show started and left in a huff a couple songs in. That was actually quite entertaining. They missed a damn good concert.
@Beedo_Sookcool
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
One word: Ticketmaster.
@billmorgan306
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Ban all mobile devices.. atmosphere dead now because everyone knows what the set list is and just waits to get phones out at certain songs or some stage gimmick..meet and greets definitely scrap them …
@solsticeuk
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
100% onboard with keeping the performance live! In our case this proves expensive as we add singers to faithfully reproduce the harmonies characteristic of our sound. Of course therein lies the motivation for using samples and backing tracks as live performance, in any form, becomes increasingly expensive whilst fees remain low… especially for smaller original bands. I also fear, having witnessed the debacle, the ever present possibility of technology failing and leaving a band either extremely embarrassed in the face of an unimpressed audience or literally unable to continue… which is pretty much unforgivable in my book.
@jeffkortsch8276
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
One thing I've never figured out over years of going to shows is why some people pay big money to see the show but then when they're at the show, they act like they want to be doing anything other than being there. Long conversations yelled over the music about anything but the music being performed and the aforementioned drunks.
@tim_from_the_uk
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Agreed about phones. The odd photo now and then is fine but videoing whole songs. No.
Playing live, yes of course but some artists you expect a degree of background electronics, as long as the people with instruments play the instruments.
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