THANK YOU!! Don't apologize!

Oh, and there is nothing wrong with playing the game, it is called being a sell-out. 40 year old men write songs all the time about young girls, I know a few very well-known song writers that wrote some iconic songs for young girls but that music tends to be teenage bubble gum pop music, nothing wrong with Pop music but it is not known for depth. Just ear candy.

I could not disagree with you more, it is never good to adhere to a corporate formula, it ceases to be art when you do that. Artist suffer for their art, if they love and have passion for it they are protective of their art. I am so happy I grew up when it was just about the music, not about corporate sponsored and influenced sound ( I can not even call some of it music). I am so sad so many younger kids will never have a full music education. I come from a musical family, my uncle grew up with Hendrix here in Seattle, they had their first bands together and later my uncle toured with Hendrix with his own band The Ballingjacks ( feel free to youtube) and his band was the official house band for the Filmore East and West, and he is just one of many who were real musicians creating music from the heart and soul. I think the industry has advanced itself out of music and straight into commerce. So many so-called artist that are not, so many "talking heads" with the image the corporations want to force on the weak minded. Yes, music will always change, that is the nature of the art , musicians hear someone else playing something and they put their own stank on it, the difference is that is use to be organic, it use to take it's hard knocks in life, and travel practice until another art form evolves. This documentary, in part, speaks about those that just want the fame and money, they are not really artist but more opportunist. I miss turning on the radio and being blown away by a sound I never heard, investigating that artist to find where and how they came up with that sound, what got them to that point. In the 70's there were so many kinds of music genres happening, the emergence of Punk and Rap, these two genres where both expressing, in those early days, angst at the political system they were crying out about society woes and it made for art and interesting music, you grew. Now with all the turmoil and confusion happening you would think there would be a sizable about of artist on the airways talking about what's going on, there are a few but you are flooded with formula music from formula minds, the music is like an artificial sweetener. Art is meant to enrich our lives, to make up think or open up the world, I think this may be too much to ask or expect from the current generation, when settling for auto-tune and formals is acceptable then music truly is dying.

I totally agree that the reason Doyle didn't sell records is because he's just another stock blues guitarist (no matter how "real" Clapton thinks he is). But the doc goes much farther than that and does a decent job of summarizing the state and evolution of the music industry since the birth of rock and jazz music. I don't like the featured artists either, but they offer good insight and it doesn't detract from the doc nearly as much as I thought it would.