Tell me Ian, why would artists want to support something like Second Life? Don't fewer young people than ever before go out to see live music? Doesn't something like Second Life just further encourage them to stay home? Also, I'm no musician, but it seems to me that part of the fun of being one is performing live. Am I right? That's all lost when people are sitting silently in their room, switching between their online RPGs and the concert given by the pixilated version of Ian Wilson.
And, do they mean for the main dude on their front page image to have breasts?
Jesse, you're right that the audience for live music is getting younger and younger, but I'm wondering if this is true of Second Life users. I've only read a handful of articles about Second Life (and haven't actually experienced it for myself), but I get the impression that Second Life encompasses very different social circles from those people who enjoy, um, leaving their houses. Their real houses, not their second houses.
From there, I think the question for a musician becomes whether or not your virtual audience will ever "teleport" themselves to the Paradise to see your actual show, which is not only the fun part of being a musician, but the part that pays your rent.
So could pixelated musicians ever produce a real-life audience?
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