I am fortunate to have never been in the music business that way. I watched it from my position as a magazine writer in the 70s and '80s, and I saw lots and lots of great music fall between the cracks. Your life's work comes out the same week as a Madonna release? Tough luck, kid; the sales department has its priorities. I have been earning my living producing a radio show since 1987 or so. I am having a great year playing music, and I've made a few thousand selling CDs and music online, too. Most importantly, I have complete control over what I do and I have enough gigs (and growth) to feel good about my career. I am too old and too weird to ever be a pop star, and that is just fine with me. On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:41 AM, mark francombe wrote: I loved being a professional musician, touring was fabulous, all that sex and drugs, studio was cool, became a genius at Sonic the Hedgehog, Shooting videos was fun, cos that was my job, photoshoots.. cool as fuck... all those make-up girls and screaming queen assistants running about fetching me Lattés (before I knew what a latté was... ) But then the meetings... MEETINGS?? I hear you ask, yes... hours and hours of wingeing moaning band meetings, days and days of endless management/record company meetings... pushin, slowly pushing, in that very annoying kind of... "we love and stand by your thing its great" way for a hit.. or at least a track you could dance to... of hum along too would be just great guys... in the end theres none of your original band there... its just meetings and meetings, and getting up late and going to bed late... and pissing off your girlfriend cos you cant cook anymore, refusing to walk if you can get a taxi... David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA 94610-2730 Web site: http://www.dgans.com |