blues is not dead. it is alive and well. in fact, maybe there is no audience that wants to here it outside of me and a few random people i know online who i trade cds with, but i can tell you i have 60+ blues and blues rock albums all made in the last decade that are excellent. to make my point about the audience, i could probably list every single one and no one on this entire board will have heard of them unless they remember a name or two from a previous post. jazz is far from dead as well. im not as big a jazz fan but i have severall good jazz albums that are of this decade and can safely assume there is a lot out there. i get sick of hearing these music purists talk shit about how music is dead. what in the fuck is music for music's sake? do you even know what you mean when you are saying it? please tell me. all the blues players i listen to are pretty unknown and it can't be for the money's sake. and i would like you to look one of them in the eye and say it is for the sake of pride. it is about emotion and playing what you feel and need to play. the only critique you can make on blues today is there is too much rock some, which really isn't a problem unless you are a narrowminded asshole.

so i am not going to speak for anything outside of blues and jazz, but neither are dead, and music as a whole is not dead, so please take your head out of your ass before you make any more simultaneously arrogant and ignorant remarks you miserable piece of shit.