There are only two types of musicians. Real ones and the toy ones.

The question has to be asked, if you are in this industry just to make money and strutt your stuff in front of an admiring, if musically uneducated audience. (In which case you will probably be reading this page because you have a narrow understanding of what it takes to be consistently original and don't want whatever little is available to you to get ripped off by common sense.) Or whether you are "in it" because you really love the whole challenge of music along with all the discipline needed to play your instrument to the fullness of it's potential. In which case you will already have realised that as it stands, the music industry has but little to do with either the history nor the creation of music. Why do you play music?

Three Chord Heaven : A young goons image eclectic?

Since around 1958, pop music has been almost exclusively based upon folk / church changes, it uses only two of these scales, yet its more creative aspects are always seeking new sounds which, strangely enough are not hidden in history, or by tuning up the volume but exist within easy reach.

Approaching the 21st Century, arrogance, ignorance and prejuduce are the only things holding back both pop music and pop musicians from a new and more exciting dimension.

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