Is Old Music Killing New Music?

Ah! Judas Priest. Yes!

Absolutely. If you can still play and you can still sing, by all means, do what you love to do. That said, I went to see B.B. King for the last time in Charlotte a couple years before he died, and having seem him decades earlier, it was a bit sad to see him sitting on a chair... the (seemingly) first half hour of the show was dedicated to introducing his band... but then he went into Downhearted, and his play was as sharp as ever.
greatest stage of blues artists ever. I'm glad to have seen it when all of them were with us.