July 27ths
7/27/1997 Idea: Video of guitar solos/performances. [7/27/2024: At the time I had the idea of producing a series of videotapes, but YouTube made this possible 10 years later. We knew what the internet was, and some people had crude dial-up, but it was beyond our ken that you could watch TV on it. To some degree, music instruction videos have made music education unserious entertainment. No one could possibly want to do things like voice-leading exercises, practicing rhythms, and sight-reading. Every new technology steals something away and sometimes re-integrates older ones: Radio stole time away from books, TV stole time away from radio and books, the internet stole time away from rigorous activities, but looped in radio (podcasts) and TV (streaming video), social media stole time away from everything: what it does mostly is to share things we’ll never have time for, AI steals time away from b...
