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Originally Posted by
Carl Schwamberger
So few people understand what happened you are unlikely to get a response until folks have caught up on teir reading.
I've heard from bar owners & read in the entertainment industry literature that the changes in music copywrite hurt the live music bars. Cover bands were the mainstay for many decades & with these changes it became a lot more expensive for the bands and bar/club owners to keep the live music. I dont know what the truth is there, but I do remember how bands vanished from so many bars in the 1990s & the music played included few covers from the 1950s forward.
So, we can directly blame this for the rise of EDM?
Cant say for sure. There was a change in the music club/bar scene back in the 1990s. A lot of claims & evidence pointed to the changes in music copyrite. Maybe it was the primary cause, maybe there were other factors at work. The 1990s saw the median age of the Baby Boomers move into the middle age stay home demographic (Tho I stayed out

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The attitude towards getting sloppy drunk bar hopping and driving changed. Maybe those drove the bands out of the bars, maybe not. Back in the 1970s & 80s no self respecting bar in my home area went without a band weekend nights. By 1995 the owners were flailing around with karaoke machines, extra pool tables, comedy nights, canned music & even lamer stuff. The band risers and lights were coming down.