People have been saying things ain't what they used to be since forever. I'm sure during your youth people were saying the local arts scene's best days were beh

People have been saying things ain't what they used to be since forever. I'm sure during your youth people were saying the local arts scene's best days were behind it too. In fact, no less an authority than former Suicide Club member and Burning Man cofounder John Law had this to say on the matter: "When I moved to Frisco (g’head – take that one on!) in 1976 [...] the hippies I met back then [...] all told me the same thing: “Party’s over kid, ya missed it.” Well, they were full of crap on that one. The story of this town as with all towns is one of constant change." At least in terms of anything measurable I can find, SF's music scene seems to be holding its own, relative to other cities: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=San+Francisco+music+scene%2CLos+Angeles+music+scene%2CNew+York+music+scene%2CLondon+music+scene&year_start=1950&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CSan%20Francisco%20music%20scene%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CLos%20Angeles%20music%20scene%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CNew%20York%20music%20scene%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CLondon%20music%20scene%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=San+Francisco+...