In Spain the thing sucks!!!. I didn?t recieve a single music lesson (and I?m a music teacher now!!!!) in my whole life until I was 18 and went for a year to the conservatory!!!.
As a result of this, our musical taste is awful, we don?t have any critical sense for the things we hear and, well, our industry is full of nonsenses that have a short range of lifetime... Really boring. Don?t really have an underground state where music blooms, don?t recieve any official help... Even in my particular city (Seville, one of the most beautiful cities in Spain if we believe what they say) we don?t have a place to have gigs!!. Only got two little (LITTLE, more or less like 3 times my kitchen) concert rooms that demand abusive amounts of money for you to play there... Well, musical education and structures here suck.
I envy you ?cos I think that your underground state is quite alive... I also envy you ?cos I wanted to play drums!.