I must be from a different planet. I still listen to the old 60s and 70s stuff, but todays musicians are light years ahead musically than the old rockers. Go to your local liberal arts college and you will hear kids playing with the expertise that could only be mustered by a handful of musicians a few decades ago. There are literally 10s of thousands of young amazing musicians just in the U.S. Most of what we were listening to back in the day were glorified garage bands. Many were self taught and couldn't read music. Turn off the rig and go find some live music venue supporting local artists. You might be surprised.
Why does most new music suck?
Ok I will have some exclusions to my statement. I'm not talking about classical or jazz. My comment is mostly pointed to rock and pop releases. Don't even get me started on rap.... I don't consider it music. I will admit that I'm an old foggy but come on, where are some talented new groups? I grew up with the Beatles, Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix etc. I sample a lot of new music and the recordings are terrible. The engineers should be fired for producing over compressed shrill garbage. The talent seems to be lost or doesn't exist. I have turned to some folk/country or blues music. It really is a sad state of affairs....Oh my god, I'm turning into my parents.