Janszoon

I kinds of agree. I like a couple Foo Fighters songs but I'm not really a fan overall. Probot was fucking amazing though, and his drumming for Killing Joke and Queens of the Stone Age was fantastic.

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Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

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mr dave

if the intent of my band was to keep playing gigs for dollars you're damned straight we'd sign that contract, then we'd bend over and assume the goatse pose.

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Astronomer

I am in a band, but the goal of our band is not to earn a living. All of us already have careers and jobs that we foresee ourselves continuing into the future. We rarely play gigs for dollars, we play a lot of free gigs or gigs that get us enough money to buy a beer in dingy little quirky places around the city. We play for fun pretty much, not for money or a career. So I'm not really sure what we'd do if that situation arose, or how that situation could even arise given our attitude.

That being said, I picked Yeah I would..but i'd probably get depressed and start a drug habit, because the kind of **** I just rattled off is probably something said by a lot of amateur/independent bands before they sell out to the man.

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Scarlett O'Hara

This. Probably wouldn't need to be famous to have a drug habit though

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mr dave

i gotta say i really don't like the way the 'No' option is laid out. it still revolves around the idea of playing music as a vehicle to commercial success and financial independence - after all what else does 'making it' imply?

my 'band' was basically a weekly therapy session where my friends and i managed to overcome our demons or at least establish a modicum of control over them. i can say with absolute certainty that if any A&R person would have approached us two of us would have honestly laughed in their face at the idea of being paid to scrape the poop from our souls and being very clear that it is exactly what they would be getting for their money.

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The Monkey

2 & 4 and 1 & 3 are the same options.

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Tea Supremacist

I guess I'd probably go with no, but I don't really like the reasons given...

I make music because it's an outlet for me. And I don't mean writing deep and meaningful poetic songs to a beautiful piano melody. I mean getting together with a couple of friends, having some beers and bashing the shit out of my piano for a couple of hours. Yeah, we write our own stuff, but it's not likely to be heard by anyone other than whoever is walking past our house at the time.

With gigs, as much as I like doing them it's not something I'd carve a career out of. I went through a phase a few years ago where doing gigs was my sole source of income and it was horrible. I wasn't enjoying them anymore because I HAD to do them, not cos I wanted to. Now me, my brother and a mate just organise a gig when we can be arsed, make little or no money from them and we're pretty happy with that.

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glastonelle

I'd probably start off shunning the idea of selling-out, but then eventually when I got big enough I would. Round myself up some cash, become hated by every last of my once-respecting fans and buy myself a nice island in the south of Spain. Ooh, life shall be good.

I will never, ever make a perfume though. That defines selling-out for me. And while I wont have a scent to my name, I will still have a little self-respect.

Freebase Dali

I voted for the one that said hookers.
Because it said hookers.
Yea, the options are kind of asinine.

glastonelle

You have fun with your hookers then