emdot_ambient wrote:You know something I don't? The only people I know who actually have careers in music in the States live in near poverty, age really poorly and end up looking like trolls by the time they're 40. They also aren't actually making their own music, but whoring as recording engineers for a bunch of gun toting wannabe gangsta rappers. I.e., they're getting pitifully little money from musicians who are willing to run up incredible credit card debt pursuing their own pointless and hopeless music careers.davor wrote:...I too wish I lived in States at the moment cause I could pursue career in music industry...
**edit** Oh, and I know one guy making a living as a country song writer in Nashville instead of becoming the next Bruce Springstein, which is what he always really wanted to do. So, he's another whore.
But I'm not bitter
You too are exaggerating a bit. A few days back I watched on TV; a rap guy selling his own CDs on Venice Beach or something like that, and he said he sold 65 000 of his CDs a year (selling on the Beach). If you sold 65 000 in Cro, you would be No. 1 musitian in the county. How does that compare.
I wouldn't mind make living as a recording engineer, nor I would mind working as a songwriter. I wasn't saying I would make it as a performer in the first place ( although I have more talent than Eminems or Marylin Mansons of the world, for instance) I think that if you have talent, if you're willing to educate yourself, progress and not be narrow-minded, you have a chance to make it at least as a sound engineer.
. They will see that there's no actual difference between Belinda and Gibonni for instance. All cheesy sleazy cheese...