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Old 12-10-2017, 02:51 PM   #46941 (permalink)
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10th day with the flu. Should have gotten a shot a couple of months back. I can deal with the fact that my body has become a phlegm factory, and that every time I sneeze or cough it feels like I'm getting hit in the skull with an Estwing, but totally fed up with the nausea.

Have re-lost 10 of the pounds I'd recently regained.
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Old 12-10-2017, 03:49 PM   #46942 (permalink)
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you worked part time though right?

I wouldn't give up on the music thing either because if I could even make minimum wage playing music it'd be worth

but quite a lot groups play through university where they actually have the most free time then drop out only after they're making some money

having a 9-5 labor job is uninspiring and exhausting and that's if you're lucky enough to get a set schedule like that
Prob not gonna make money from music for a while but I'll figure things out as I go I guess. We're all committed and best friends though so idk hopefully we'll still be doing this 10 years from now but the rest of them are almost done with university and have similar aspirations. I worked 35 hours a week sometimes and if I wasn't doing school at the same time I would've had so much free time still. What I'm saying is that whatever happens job-wise I'm willing to power through it.
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Old 12-10-2017, 04:01 PM   #46943 (permalink)
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Prob not gonna make money from music for a while but I'll figure things out as I go I guess. We're all committed and best friends though so idk hopefully we'll still be doing this 10 years from now but the rest of them are almost done with university and have similar aspirations. I worked 35 hours a week sometimes and if I wasn't doing school at the same time I would've had so much free time still. What I'm saying is that whatever happens job-wise I'm willing to power through it.
Man, even if you're still young and dumb it's great to have something to be passionate about, and even if it doesn't work you should still follow that **** as long as it keeps you fulfilled, but just, you know, don't ignore your backup plans if all of this doesn't work out. Your chosen career path is gonna be hectic at best.
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Old 12-10-2017, 04:11 PM   #46944 (permalink)
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Problem these days with people trying to earn a living making music is that there's just too many of them.

It's too damn easy to get your stuff out there.

Own a PC? Check. Got a decent DAW software program? Check. A million free available loops and samples? Check. Extremely easy online outlets for distributing your music? Check.

Good luck with that.
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Old 12-10-2017, 05:12 PM   #46945 (permalink)
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Problem these days with people trying to earn a living making music is that there's just too many of them.

It's too damn easy to get your stuff out there.

Own a PC? Check. Got a decent DAW software program? Check. A million free available loops and samples? Check. Extremely easy online outlets for distributing your music? Check.

Good luck with that.
The biggest difference is how many of the artists actually care about making music compared to those that don't. So many artists put forth half assed efforts in hopes of quickly blowing up and 'making dat money' then give up when it doesn't happen fast enough.
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Old 12-10-2017, 07:55 PM   #46946 (permalink)
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because major labels deciding what 5 bands everyone would be into this year was so great for artists
You say that like that's a new thing.
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Old 12-10-2017, 08:42 PM   #46947 (permalink)
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Man, even if you're still young and dumb it's great to have something to be passionate about, and even if it doesn't work you should still follow that **** as long as it keeps you fulfilled, but just, you know, don't ignore your backup plans if all of this doesn't work out. Your chosen career path is gonna be hectic at best.
I mean like, I recognize that for sure so at the very least my backup plan is that I can easily go back to college after completing the transfer program at my community college (which I'm almost done with anyways). I'm fine with hectic too I suppose, or I'll learn to be.

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Problem these days with people trying to earn a living making music is that there's just too many of them.

It's too damn easy to get your stuff out there.

Own a PC? Check. Got a decent DAW software program? Check. A million free available loops and samples? Check. Extremely easy online outlets for distributing your music? Check.

Good luck with that.
Honestly, even though the rest of my band isn't, I'd be content even if we never got out of our local scene. If we're one of the best bands in the local scene, and people care about us and want to see us for like 5 or 7 years or so, I'd be fine with that. And then dying maybe.

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because major labels deciding what 5 bands everyone would be into this year was so great for artists
Amen. Even if that means there's way too much **** out there now.
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Old 12-10-2017, 10:04 PM   #46948 (permalink)
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because major labels deciding what 5 bands everyone would be into this year was so great for artists
Ya, cause this like what I posted. You missed my point by a country mile.
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Old 12-12-2017, 01:03 AM   #46949 (permalink)
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I don't accept your premise that it's harder to make a living in music because its process and distribution is not entirely under the control of large corporations
I also didn't mention large corporations.



Soundcloud currently has 175 million active contributing members. Bandcamp has over 2,000 music labels.

For $100 I can set up a bedroom recording studio - as long as non-virtual instruments aren't included. The upload/download speeds for digital music is no longer a hurdle for either the artist or the listener.

My only point is that it's a ****ing hard career these days to try and make a living.

Hell, it was hard enough back in 1981 when I gave it up and went with Plan B.
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I also didn't mention large corporations.



Soundcloud currently has 175 million active contributing members. Bandcamp has over 2,000 music labels.

For $100 I can set up a bedroom recording studio - as long as non-virtual instruments aren't included. The upload/download speeds for digital music is no longer a hurdle for either the artist or the listener.

My only point is that it's a ****ing hard career these days to try and make a living.

Hell, it was hard enough back in 1981 when I gave it up and went with Plan B.
Yeah, but most of those people don't put much effort into their music and aren't usually passionate about music, they're passionate about the fame, money or pussy they think they can get with music and give up when they don't become a star fast enough. People that set up cheep bedroom studios are a dime a dozen to the passionate people that shell out the money for studio recordings.
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