Case study San Luis Obispo.....6 years ago there was a thriving music scene in this little college town...typical college band stuff but enough talent was encouraged and allowed to blossom (growing into today's Norfolk and Western, Little Wings, M. Ward..)....almost instantly though that music scence disappeared and fled to other towns (San Francisco, Portand, Chicago, ..) Seemed to be the usual natural flow of college kids in and out upon graduation, leaving that life and its music behind..With this exodus though, there was no tidal flow refilling the empty shores....For years I have tried to figure out what happened....Who killed the music scence? was KCPR the college radio station to blame, was it the lack of bars to play music in, perhaps that there was no "practice pad" available to nuture a thought into musical actuality....These were all symptoms though, as we folk tend to do we only find the symptoms and view them as the acutal problem...the search for the actual disease is ended and we keep taking pharmeceuticals to counter the side effects and make us feel normal instead acutal normalcy...the root problem in this case I now theorize is the city's noise ordnances ....more specificallly the crack down on house parites.....It is an acutal imposibility to throw a house party in this city featuring a live band without the police shutting in down...no matter time of day, weekend, what have you, it is not allowed....Every party I have been to that had live music also had an appearance by the police and a $350 fine.....Thus live band parites have disappered and we live in an America where suddenly DJ's are acting like musicians......anyone who can still remember or still has some youth in you, the overcrowded living room is the whole point of making live music....the party atmoshpere, the social gathering is the impetus behind all music....music is the soundtrack of celebration ..what other reason is there.....bedroom rockers keep it down, if you just wanted to play for yourself you wouldn't own that four-track.......So now, living in to town, and increasingly a nation, in which the house party cannot exist with live music, the venue for the developing musician is gone, and thus the musician with it....Just a note about how the losing of a freedom, in this case the freedom to rock, creates in the long term a loss of life and expression and creates a duller world.....A safer world...........a dead world..