Yeah this is my experience. In some ways it’s harder. There’s an economic angle that people don’t often consider in the US at least I can say from experience. Even if you have enough cash saved or inherited to try to do something you can’t just rent a cheap garage apartment and press albums like you could in 1999 on a gig/service/teaching/whatever income. Alternatively the kinds of jobs that will enable paying people and recording, or building a good studio, pretty much preclude any touring or even regular releases while at the same time reduced costs mean almost anyone can at least try so all the channels are constantly highly saturated with content. Hard to make a kind of embodied scene out of that.
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