I think your sig absurd and suggests you're about 15 years oldross g wrote:see my sig...it ain't a joke, a bit sarcastic, but...you said it best...Lady J wrote:"
Saddly back when I got this advice i was all about, "keepin' it real" and "the underground" and "making music for my longtime fans" that I was too afraid to "sell out".
5 years later I finally took his advice and things are coming along well
34 years I've been playing...here's a little timeline for youteens...wanting to learn and being overwhelmed, never believing I had it right but close enough..still I was trying to learn amoungst (myself included) teenagers who didn't have a clue.
20's...actively persuing bands playing and havine fun, but still a child musically.
early to mid 30's... acceptance that I wasn't gonna be a rock star. But I began to appreciate and be humbled by my talent instead of using it to be above and better then everyone else. I was becoming a musical adult.
The last 10 years...the most enjoyable I have had as a person, artist and a musician...now that childish crap, pettyness, need for attenetion, thinking that I can be better then someone else (sorry when it comes to art you cant be) and any egotistical attitudes are gone I am now actually enjoying my music. I have grown up musically and the rewards out weigh any money you can put in front of me.
In times of great stress, anger, pain, happiness, fear...my music has always been there...that can't be bought.
Your sig suggest you are a busician, not a musician...you can be an artist and not sell out and still be talented...the fact you suggest otherwise is assinine and setting yourself up to fail.
In short read my sig...that's keeping it real...
Prof. Peter Schickele of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, discoverer of P.D.Q. Bach's works.
