WEBVTT - Who Killed Live Music? feat. Prop 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:05.040 Als media. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:09.640 Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:13.240 If Robert can do his a tonal shreeks, then I 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:17.320 can sing off key yo, I'm back. Help me all 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.280 up in your feed. Wast these rap gus get all 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.600 up in your feed. That's a wu tang reference again 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.720 to the Black delegation, shout out y'all showing up on 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.040 the in the subreddit. You feel me, Black folks showing 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:31.760 up and showing out. I appreciate y'all. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.239 I was wrong. It's more than five of us. I 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:35.960 shout out to you, man. I love y'all. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.120 Thanks for showing up, and shout out all the Latinos 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:42.240 who tapped into and le puez. Hey gontodo MI hint 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.800 ben at gay when valivo listen. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.839 We gotta really invite our Latino brothers and sisters, our 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.839 Theos and diaz and also our Asian black people, the 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.960 penoise and Penis, our Athes and Quias. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.280 You're all a part of our delegation here, all of 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.360 our USO. We love y'all. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.319 The whole diaspora of people who seizon their chicken and 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:06.959 wash their legs. I love y'all, And to this whole 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.520 delegation once we add it all together is about twenty 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.800 of us to you. I say, y'all want something from 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:17.560 the gas station. I got you so today. I don't 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.560 want to ruin your breakfast. I don't want to ruin 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.920 your coffee. I'm just gonna ruin your music. This is 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:29.279 about the death of the music festival. It already happened 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.920 here all right now, y'all know I'll be playing. I'm 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.640 playing about all this like I'm only talking to the 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:36.760 melanated folks. Y'all. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.040 Y'all know I'm playing, right. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.640 I mean, this is why while I slowly wink at 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.000 the brown folk, I'm just playing, y'all. I'm sorry, I'm 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.080 messing around. It's called opening. You know, you guys got 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.000 a great sit to humor here. All right, let's get 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:54.200 to it. Festivals like, am I right? You know, if 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.280 you're anywhere within a five to ten mile radius of 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.040 my age, I mean. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.920 Festivals is like these are like a write of passage. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.240 You know, I am not only a festival goer, but 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.160 a festival performer and as an artist. It was like 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.560 festivals were kind of in a lot of ways how 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.280 I marked the years. There were people that I really 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.079 only saw like once a year, when I was at 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.880 that festival, whether it was other acts, other bands, or 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.480 even a lot of times the volunteers or the people 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.040 that like put the event together, like you believe it 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:26.720 or not, you kind of make friends, you know, and 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.320 he's again, these are people You're like, Dang, I can't 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.320 believe it was a whole year, you know, And it 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.520 was a good way to make sure as an artist 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.560 that you were making new music and had something new 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.480 to perform. Oh, and make sure you had some new 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.880 merch because you know, if you played your cards right, 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.440 if you've listened to my show, I've talked a lot about, like, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.040 you know, the science of festivals and as a performer 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.080 of like this could either be a complete waste of 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.600 time and money if you're on at like the main 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.080 stage at like twelve noon when it's like a trillion 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.160 degrees outside, you know, but if you can get that 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.120 right as the sun set, like if you're not the headliner, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.959 if you could get that right at sunset, right where 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:06.799 the sun just breaks the horizon line coming down that. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:07.600 That golden hour set. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.080 The crowd isn't shitfaced yet, you know, they're at the 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:12.079 top of their molly. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.400 You feel you're riding the high. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.480 It is just settled in or whatever drugs that these 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.840 people are on, they've kind of just settled in right there. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:28.600 They're relaxed, they're willing to sing along. Nobody's getting trample jet. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.799 It's not like the frenzy that kind of happens at 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.320 the headliner situation, where like somebody might die. Shout out, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.839 astro world. I say that not as a joke. I'm 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.680 saying things can go wrong, but oh the experience. Man, Like, 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.840 I don't know how old you are, and obviously you 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.400 can't answer me. Do you remember the last like big 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.120 festival you went to, you know, back when your knees 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.440 were good and it was okay for you to stand 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.560 for twelve hours And there's somebody you know, having sexual 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.200 intercourse in the porter potty. You know, you're stepping over 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.920 barf right, and you just paid thirty dollars for a 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.280 bottle of water, you know that you could stuff into 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.520 your clear backpack because you weren't allowed to bring anything 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:10.360 else in there. But man, that's probably a euphoria, especially 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.240 if it's a group or a band that you really 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.480 like that you saved up all year to go see. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.800 You know, some people were like festival operas, Like that's 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.080 their thing. They spend their summer going to music festivals. 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.640 Since twenty twelve up to twenty fourteen, like the music 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.200 fest has been guys, we've. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:26.320 Kind of been on borrow time. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:31.440 We've we lived through a music festival renaissance. According to NPR, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:38.320 since twenty thirteen, everything sold out, the four mega giants, right, so, Coachello, Bataru, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.520 Lolla Palooza in Chicago, Austin City Limits Music Festival in Texas. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:50.159 It was like this never ending flow of amazing, amazing events, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.560 and you know what, they were kind of affordable. In 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.680 the next five years, you had things taken forth like 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.360 Pitchfork in Chicago, Hangout Music Festival on the Beach and 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:05.400 the Gulf Shore outside Lands, Bali Music, Mount Oasis, Electronic Music. 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.880 Festival, Forecastle Festival. Right, and I'm even. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.960 Gonna add in this, before all this for hip hop stuff, dude, 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.400 we had rock the bells. Like we lived in a 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.840 time where you could see all of your favorite artists 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:24.120 in the most epic locations. You'd see people who if 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.440 you were to try to buy their tour ticket, it 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.159 would cost the same amount if they were headlining the 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.159 thing but you could see all your favorite acts. Part 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.920 of this was because we listened to radio, you were 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.640 exposed to more things and it was probably the fun 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.560 part about a lot of times about music festival is 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.920 because you probably saw that act, your favorite band, your 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.440 favorite rapper, you saw them at a hole in the 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.440 wall five years ago, which was like ten bucks to 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.360 get in, and you might have snuck in or got 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.400 on the list because you knew somebody that knew the DJ. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.599 And now you're like, I followed this crew from when 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.599 they were like playing a whole in a wall with 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.000 ten people, where there was more staff at the bar 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.000 than on this and now you're like, dude, you feel 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.640 like you were a part of their evolution. Like you 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.440 saw Chance at the Subterranean, Now he's headline at Bonaru. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.680 What a feeling you're part of the story. Well, that's 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.240 probably a relic of the past, and let's talk about it. 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.680 So festivals for most of the last decade have been 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.599 everywhere like whatever type of music you like, whatever subgenre, 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.400 whatever part of the world you want to go to, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.559 there's a music festival that you can show up at. Now, 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.480 in twenty twenty four, more than half of them across 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:38.560 the world were canceled. 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.599 I lost count on this page. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.120 I'm about to read to y'all from Musicfestival Wizard dot Com. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.120 Festival's canceled so far in twenty twenty four. Okay you 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.240 ready for this? Shindig twenty twenty four, Melt twenty twenty four, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:56.160 Sideways Festival, No Stock Field, Maneuvers, Tower z The Quintinin 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:00.400 Big Slap, Electric Zoo Peach twenty twenty four. All the 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.640 Music Festival Life Is Beautiful Festival, Country Thunder Florida, Swanee 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:09.880 Roots Festival, edc China, Lucidity Festival in Santa Barbara, Desert 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.760 Days in Lake Paris, Pinefest in the UK, Good Vibes 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:18.000 Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.600 in Booneville, El Dorado Music Festival in the UK, Sudden 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.680 Little Thrills in Pittsburgh, Big Ridge Rock Fest in Virginia, 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:31.840 Lollapalooza Paris Music Midtown Atlanta, Lovers and Friends Fest in 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.800 Las Vegas, which I was really sad about. Riverside Festival, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.600 Glasgow in where Glasgow, Soul Bloom Sacramento tw Classic twenty 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:45.880 twenty four, in Belgium, Kaylamijas in Kaylamijas, Spain, Caldoora music 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:51.360 festival in Queensland, Made An America Festival Philadelphia, Oblivion Access 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.960 Austin Texas, Meadows in the Mountains twenty twenty four in Bulgaria, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.520 Imagine Festival in Rome, Georgia, Splendor on the Grass in 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.520 Byron By Australia, Body and Soul Festival in Ireland, Moon 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.520 Rose Festival. I'm tired of I'm not even done yet, 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.080 I'm not even halfway through this thing. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.680 Festivals died in twenty twenty four. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:17.120 Digital News reports that sixty festivals in the UK alone canceled. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.320 Ashley King wrote this article on August twenty third, twenty 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.720 twenty four, for Digital Music News, and in that she 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.000 says the United Kingdom has lost one hundred and ninety 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.960 two music festivals since twenty nineteen, according to the Association 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.200 of Independent Festivals the AIF, which is a not for 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.720 profit trade festival association that represents the interest of over 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.600 two hundred independent UK music festivals that range from five 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.680 hundred to eighty thousand people. The AIF estimates that the 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.079 UK lost ninety six events during the COVID pandemic thirty 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:53.000 six festivals and in twenty twenty three, more than sixty 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.640 to date in twenty twenty four. That brings the total 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.920 number of festival closures either due to cancelation or post 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.679 pullment up to one hundred and ninety two since twenty nineteen, 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:09.320 one hundred and ninety two festivals. Some may argue that, well, damn, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:14.080 you shouldn't have had that many festivals, Coachella, Lollapalooza, and 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.800 of course the infamous burning Man with the most on 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.880 brand people that go that call themselves burners. Now, I 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.320 don't want to sit here and make fun of you burners, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:26.320 because I'm pretty sure. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.360 A lot of y'all listen to this show number one 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:29.280 and number two. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.400 I don't know if there's anybody more free, anybody more 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.959 comfortable in their own skin. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:36.720 Listen. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.520 This might sound like a joke, Okay, I'm dead serious. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.800 It's like the white guy with dreadlocks. I mean, white 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:48.160 people with dreads are just most of the time, Okay, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.280 Like this may sound like a joke, I'm deadly serious. 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.160 They be so okay with themselves and will do whatever 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.720 they got to do to continue to stay present and 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.240 be cool with themselves, no notes. It's the guy doing 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.120 hypostatic breath work, freestyling for way too long in the 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.720 dig redoce section. You know what I'm saying, Like he's 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:12.200 super okay with himself anyway. Burning Man for the first 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:17.400 time since twenty eleven, did not sell out for the 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.240 first time, And the tickets are usually released in tears 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.480 and some go on sale in the beginning of the year, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.680 and then this part I'm getting from the Guardian, but 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.840 the main starting in April, right, which typically gets snapped 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.720 up in minutes, like Burning Man sells out in minutes. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.920 Seventy three thousand people are able to attend Burning Man, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.800 but this first time since twenty eleven, they did not 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:45.000 sell out. Coachella saying they saw a fifteen percent decline 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.479 in tickets. It's the biggest festival in North America. Coachella 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.280 is fifteen percent ticket decline. Festivals were a way for 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.720 you to discover new music, to meet new friends. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.080 It's like camp for like your twenties. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.760 You know, you get to wear your dumb ass outfits, right, 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.560 you get to stand out in the sun, you get 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.480 to drink, you get to day drink, and you get 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.480 to just lose your mind for a little bit. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.840 This might be the end, the endling. 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.200 You may have attended your last music festival as we 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:18.800 know it. So the question is why who killed the 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.560 music festival? Why is the festival not festiving it? Why 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.360 is it not festive? Why can't y'all sell no tickets? 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.360 Do we not like music anymore? Do you like music? 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.880 Still? I thought, I still like? Do you like music? Still? 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:32.880 What the hell happened in y'all? 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:47.320 Oh? Oh oh oh oh? 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:54.400 We'd back back back back, yack back uh erh. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.160 To understand the future as to what the hell happened, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.719 we have to ask ourselves how we even. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.680 Got here such a nerd I am. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.000 I don't think I need to tell you what a 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.360 music festival is, because I mean, I think you know 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.800 what it is. It's an incredibly overpriced concert that features 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.400 maybe four groups that you like, where you are going 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:23.280 to stand outdoors somewhere brave the weather day, drink and 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.240 then get to lose your mind for the last like 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:29.400 three hours and just really enjoy, you know, a moment 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.600 that you'll really never forget. Depending on how nasty and 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.280 ratchet you are, how outside you are, you might look up. 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.360 You know what I'm saying, I don't. Look, it's none 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.400 of my business. I suggest you don't. That's just me 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.840 being an old head. But either way, man, they're a 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.800 great time. But please understand that festivals, music festivals go 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.360 like back to get this, five eighty two b C. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.400 At least according to white people's history, because you know, 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.640 silly you, nothing happened anywhere else. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:12:59.400 Except for Europe. 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.920 That was music festivals in Africa, Central South America, Asia, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:05.000 no nowhere else. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.120 It don't. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:11.880 History started in Greece. We were too busy building pyramids. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.480 Right anyway, I'm gonna lead out put oh, but every 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.240 cracking you up. They'd be like the first music festival 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:25.320 on record in ancient Greece during the Pytheon Games, which 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:30.200 is fine, it's it's fine, it's fine, but understand, at 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:31.760 the way the world just the only one. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.520 That ever happened anyway, So five eighty two BC, right, 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.560 And like the Olympic Games, the Pytheon Games took place 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:44.120 every four years and included poetry reading, a speech, right, 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.360 and other musical game like competitions. People gathered to enjoy, 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:54.040 like hymns and instruments instrumental performances at the Apollo at 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.240 the Apollo I'm So Black dedicated to Apollo, which was 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.920 the god of arts and music. Now fast forward to 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:04.000 the seventeenth century, where you have like classical music festivals 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.920 and like the type of like exclusivity right where like 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.240 when in the seventeenth century when like classical music just 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:15.120 basically ate Europe and music festivals originally were like supposed 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:16.960 to be a gathering where people could, like what you think, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.280 gather and celebrate music. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.680 However, here's where it starts coming into focus. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:25.160 The wealthcap was widening across Europe, so festivals gradually became 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.280 kind of like how they are where they're a little 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:33.080 bit exclusive, catering primarily to more higher educated upper class. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:38.920 And the shift became apparent as events became more exclusive 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:46.960 and had increasingly restricted access. This is from ndlbeast dot com. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.600 They have a whole section on like the history of 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.359 music festivals. One could argue, like this like the prototype 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.040 of like the VIP section. You know, I'm saying, like, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.080 you know, you can get the pit tickets or you 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.000 can stand outside with the pores and just listen from 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.120 the outside. So this trend kind of continued for centuries 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:08.000 where like a lead class. I think almost like was 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.560 the beginning of the breaking of music in general. They 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:16.440 were control the access to culture. I have a friend 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.920 that wrote a book called Don't Be Precious. Now, me 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.840 and this friend differ in a lot of ways, but 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.000 he's just a punk rock dude, and his approach to 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:33.280 making art is like, you can't have this like restricting access, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.760 right because it becomes it just like upper class art 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.640 is this creation of the leisure class, because one they 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.440 have the patron to pay for them to be able 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.720 to sit down and contemplate the stars, like you got 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.640 all precious about it, you feel me. So some of 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.000 that has to do with again, the wealth gap. So 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.600 when you restrict access to hearing music, it draws deeper 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.200 into the divides between like the educated upper class and 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.840 then the traveling folk musicians who performed for the commoners. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.960 And that's like this stuff you see on you know, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.760 corny little movies. Then the world wars come, right, and 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.600 there's like a music revival, right. So when the First 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:19.480 World War broke out, obviously change of lifestyle meaning everything 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.800 went to like you know, war effort. So this is 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.200 a really interesting quote. It says, I'm the same MDL beast. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.240 As society focused on wartime efforts and staying safe, the 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.320 exclusivity of music festivals to the upper class disappeared. In 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.440 a turn of events, the working class population was now 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.080 turning to music more than ever. Jazz and folk emerged 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.440 as popular genres right to avoid the scrutiny of the elite. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.880 Groups of musicians with similar tastes would gathering diede bars 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.040 and underground clubs. By the time the war had ended, 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.960 jazz has cemented itself as the genre of the era. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:02.640 So now we're talking Harlem Renaissance, juke joints, and the 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.120 emergence of like again this where black people come in 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:11.200 a lot of times the role that just the all 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:18.960 out anti black racism has unintentionally because of it, created 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.879 some of the most dopest things, some of the most 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:27.040 dopest American experiences. Or I just read up on how 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:32.720 with HBCUs which are historic black colleges that now white 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:39.480 people trying to attend. They like your school of fund well, 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.480 because we wasn't allowed it yours anyway, So let me continue. So, 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.919 World War two played a pivotal role in creating the 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:51.600 Newport Folk Festival, organized by Lewis and Elaine Lauryland, a 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.000 couple met during World War Two and came together to 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:59.159 revolutionized Rhode Island's music artistic community by promoting jazz with 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.399 the foundation in as in blues, in country and pop music. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.919 They expanded to attract over eleven thousand people in nineteen 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.960 fifty four. Then the sixties the birth of the modern 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:17.800 music festival. Right obviously Woodstock, which was the invention Monterey 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:22.280 International Pop Music Festival. This is the rock festival as 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.960 we know it, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin who it was 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:29.000 the place to be a cultural experience as we know it. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.439 Again is that then you got like the Berlin Wall 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:36.920 in the music revolution. This is where festivals become political 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:41.280 and cultural. They become a statement and a big one 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:46.400 was in the nineties when they did the Berlin Wall 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.000 tearing Down Music Festival, which was an amazing thing, right 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.720 where underground stations, power plants, World War Two bunkers and 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:58.159 abandoned buildings all started to serve as makeshift concert halls. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:02.639 This is why Europe became such a place for music festivals. 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:07.680 It became a sign of freedom and solidarity. And then 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:13.119 the music festival took a shit. They just died in 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:19.560 the nineties after this all can be explained in when 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:23.840 they tried to redo Woodstock just a shit show with 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:25.640 like Limp Biscuit. 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.160 And all them you a shit show. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:37.280 There's a documentary on Netflix about the absolute disaster that 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:41.120 that new Woodstock was, y'all. I'm talking like y'all thought 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.840 Astro World was bad where them kids was raising so 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.520 much and people die. You talking about understaffed. Y'all think 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.280 Firefest was a disaster, my nigger, Well, nah, I don't 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.719 think anything was worse than firefests so far a good thing. 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:56.520 It didn't happen like y'all remember Firefest? 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.359 Oh lord, honestly, I can't believe I made it almost 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.560 twenty minutes into this and then mentioned Firefest because it 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:08.119 is the perfect example of what went wrong in the 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:13.600 music festival world. Because, like I said, this disaster in 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.359 the nineties to two thousands, if you were able to 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:21.719 survive like I said earlier, like the Bonnarous Coachella's Austin 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:25.400 City limits, if you were able to survive Lollapalooza, then 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.320 you came out the other end and became the go 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:30.480 to places. 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:32.520 Right, tell your ride for folk music. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.720 You became the go to places that if you were 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:37.200 going to try to have a career. 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.120 As an artist, you have to play one of these festivals. 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.480 No matter how much money you don't make at these things, 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.280 you have to do it because this is where not 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:49.520 only do you get the necessary co sign, you also 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.440 get discovered. Like as far as fans like, you make 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.679 new fans, you se merge people, walk away with the 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.240 T shirt. You're on this T shirt that says Bonnarou 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:02.320 twenty twenty one, and your name is so like even 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.400 if you're way down on the bottom, Grab your little screenshots, 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:09.440 take your little Instagram photos, because now you're in the game. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:10.960 And the game it. 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.760 Was, which leads us to what went wrong because this 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.639 was not only a money making endeavor. This was a 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:24.520 money making endeavor in twenty fourteen, are y'all ready for this? 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.800 I don't think you ready for this? In the boom years, 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:32.840 according to an analysis done by a Finance Buzz, in 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:36.720 twenty fourteen, general emission prices for major and music festivals 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:43.160 increased by fifty five percent that outpaced just inflation period, 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.960 y'all jacked up the price. So listen, So if your 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:50.200 ja rule head ass, of course I'm gonna build a festival. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.840 You're looking at Burning Man, You're looking at Bonnarou, You're 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:54.880 looking at all these things. 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:56.840 You're like, bro, let's just get an island and make 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.359 a festival. There's so much money to be made. 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:04.400 But you know what, capitalism being capitalism, it's gonna keep capitalism. 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:06.520 Let's talk about what killed the festival. 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:26.040 Oh oh, oh, oh, you see, I just did my 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.880 own fade out and fade in music. Y'all see that. No, 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:34.440 don't ask me what note that was. So what killed 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:39.440 the festival? There one number of things. First of all, yo, 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.640 ask for not going I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:46.119 We're not blaming the victims here. Some of these answers 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:49.600 are pretty obvious, like again, you know astra World like, 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:52.680 but astral World is just a good picture of everything 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:56.840 that went wrong in the concept of a music festival. 0:22:57.040 --> 0:23:01.920 So the first problem is, yeah, capitalism, sometimes you are 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:07.040 led to believe that what is will always be right. 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:12.040 That's what a stable economy lulls you into believing. But 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:16.320 anybody that knows how money works, it's booms and busts, 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:20.639 the bubble will pop, and how a bubble pops is 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:25.359 almost always our own fault in this sense, the housing bubble, 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:28.000 you know of two thousand and eight when your mama 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:30.359 and him lost their house because the reality was they 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:32.399 shouldn't have never got that loan in the first place. 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:35.240 These people knew good and well that you was not 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:37.479 able to keep up with that mortgage. But we were 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:40.359 selling too many houses. It was going too good. So 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:45.120 the thing was for almost the you know, almost a decade, 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:48.919 you couldn't make enough festivals. The industry couldn't keep up 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:53.199