Hardbopjazz Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 It is easy getting up there and playing, but you also then have to market yourself. Is this the hardest part of being a musician? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 Playing , for me, is fun. B) The business end of the deal, promotion and marketing has always been just work, and the nastiest part of the music "biz". And it seems to take much longer than the gigs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upright Bill Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 I always hated all of the asking for money parts. Discussing price before and asking for the money after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casanovas347 Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 i have a daytime job as a service-technician in a few musicshops (repairing guitar-amps and stuff like that......well Leslie-Cabs too! ).... that means money is not the important thing when i go out and play....i need free drinks and something to eat....and a tastefull audience ....not talkin too much while i play....n.....they stressed me when they talk louder than i play...i guess i just need louder amps...lolol i have my website and this is the place i can share my music with peps outside....when i think its time to make a little CD....i would sell them by myself.....my music is too uncool for any label in my area....and i'm not the guy wanna make it big...i just wanna enjoy music.....and die before they take that away from me! greetz paco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 Once I meet somebody and get a relationship going, I'm cool. But it's none too easy for me to make that initial hookup. Call it an intuitive aversion to "salesmanship" coupled with a fear of rejection coupled with an intuitive "certainty" that the owner/booker/whatever is going to turn out to be yet another clueless whoremonger coupled with a knowledge that my own "product" doen't really fit any of the precise niches that most venues/whatever book. That's a lot of couplings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popper Lou Posted July 29, 2004 Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 I'm in it for the music. If someone likes what I play, great. As long as I can sell it to myself. I have to please me first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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