So what. Most of the people that you like are out there. They still have web sites, they are playing, many of them in Casinos around the country. But you have to find them.

As to your question: What's going on?"
the answer is that with most people and music, LIFE gets in the way.

As a teenager, and into your 20's, college, whatever, music plays a HUGE part of your formative years. It is the main thing many people spend all their money on. They go to clubs, to concerts, buy t-shirts, hats, follow bands around, etc. If they are musicians, they buy equipment and try to follow in the footsteps of their idols. About 90% of that stops once they have to get into the job market, get married, having kids. That is where their ability to pay for music and music related items end.

For those very few like us here and other places, it is still a big deal and we are immersed in it. But for most people, they grow out of it and get into other things. That doesn't mean that they still don't listen and from time to time still participate.

But for the most part, they are no longer primary music consumers.

This has happened throughout history. In country, the old Jimmie Rogers and Mother Maybelle Carter days gave way to the Earnest Tubbs, and Roy Acuff's which gave way to the Hank Williams, which gave way to the Buck Owens, which gave way to Willie and Waylon, which gave way to Alabama and Hank Jr. which gave way to Garth and Shania, which gave way to Tim and Kenny which will now give way to the next big thing, Lady Antibellum, the Band Parry or whatever comes next.

It is nothing more than a natural progression of life.

MAB