I think focusing on recordings is missing the point. In the 80s, 90s, and 00s, we had a huge network of small towns with their own home grown rock scenes. Their own record labels, venues, and rich histories. You could pack your little band in a van and tour the state for weeks.

For the people who were active during that time, rock was live music. A record was something you made to sell for gas money. It wasn't a musical style so much as a culture. And that culture is largely dead. Everything has moved online or to the cities.

The online thing isn't all bad. There are some good sides to it too. But what we once had doesn't happen anymore. What was once a band was built for something that just doesn't exist anymore, the live show. And the music we make now seems to be referencing a time that is long gone.