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I'm a professional musician/interviewee. How much you paying?

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I'll do it. Send me the questions via PM, and I'll do them before the end of the day.

Yeah, I don't think you'd want to interview me.. I'd just bitch about bastard bar owners and confrontational drummers and drunk women falling onto the stage and a guest singer spilling his beer into a guitar and and and and

I'm a webcam slutmonkey. You can interview me.

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Ah. Nevermind. You misinterpreted my failed joke. I was saying that I perform sexual things for people over my webcam and that you should interview me because that makes me a performer. I don't actually own a webcam. Ah well. I can't be hilarious all the time.

*edited for whininess*

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No need to aplogize; for my part, the whole thing was as easy as doing nothing.

But it's a shame, really; you missed hearing all about the college party I played this weekend. It had it all:

1) Streaking
2) Four dudes dressed as Mario Kart racers
3) Jagermeister
4) Cops
5) Vomit (on my Ricky Williams dreadlocks, no less. Thankfully, I wasn't wearing them at the time)
6) Stolen tip jars (friggin' college kids)

wormsweater wrote:They won't be too time consuming. I really don't think my teacher is looking for anything really in-depth.

Well, so you dropped the course. But this was clearly an illuminating event. You said this would be about a career that interested you, yet you play it down because you don't think your "teacher was looking for anything really in-depth".

At the risk of sounding like a lecturing jerk, wouldn't you want a little depth if you had willing participants to talk with about their careers in an area you're really interested in? And wouldn't you be interested in pursuing the interviews regardless of the fact that you dropped the course?

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wormsweater wrote:If anybody's actual job involves music in any way, please let me know if we can get a thing going.

I'm game. I bet Sober is. Jim, too. Some of us work as performers, some have had careers as writers, some in the business side of things. I'm open to sharing my experiences. That's what this community is about, right? Post some questions (give it some thought) and we'll respond in PMs or on the boards.

I dare say you shouldn't limit it to the "coolest" part of the job. The reality is that entertainment jobs aren't as glamorous as you imagine. You'll want a more realistic perspective, and the behind the scenes stuff can be just as exciting and often more powerful as the runt who's sweating on stage.

So far, I've found that the coolest thing about playing live is when you've got a bar full of people singing with you. Having the full attention and participation of a crowd is an awesome rush, really nothing quite like it.

For the downsides, I personally find the forced interaction with people... not unpleasant.. but something like that. I'm generally a pretty aloof dude, and I generally don't get excited about meeting new people, especially if these people are drunk. I don't know, I feel like I just want to do my job and go sit at the bar and eat my cheese fries, not talk to 10 drunks who think my Cash is spot-on. Drinking helps these symptoms.

Having your job depend on the schedules, skills, safety, and moods of 4 other people can be taxing. Our drummer is absolutely pro. He was the original drummer for Reverend Horton Heat, he subs for Galactic, he was a heavy New Orleans guy for years. For our demo, he layed down insane tracks 1st take without a clicktrack, and when we went over it in editing, we were able to put a clicktrack over his takes. For god's sake, Google the man. He's got all this skill and clout, and yet he's playing local Dallas gigs. Why? Because he's an addict and a fucking nutcase. We deal with it. For now, at least.

People ask me if this is what I'd like to do as a career. Absolutely. If I can play music in some capacity and maintain a reasonably comfortable living, I'll be happy.

It's great work, if you can get/deal with/keep it.

dude, i thought you were joining the army.

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Sober is an awesome performer (and I hear his Cash is spot on). I can't pretend to pull that off, but I played in electric bands all my life wishing for something to take off, but mostly barely breaking even (we mostly played original songs). With a music degree I used to perform and teach classical guitar, and was also an editor for a music journal. I found the up side was that playing chamber music was awesome when it was awesome but sucked most of the time (lots of schlock for schlock’s sake). I didn’t dig the guitar repertory that most people wanted to hear for their wedding, etc. And I resented students who had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, through the basics each week. So I moved on. But playing chamber music with female cellists is a beautiful thing, so that whole side of things can be pleasant enough. I also knew I wasn’t god’s gift to the modern music scene, so I went back to school to pursue other things. I do a lot of cool things related to the music/media industries if you're interested.

jack wrote:dude, i thought you were joining the army.

Heh. Luckily, things tend to cut in line and push your last resort back. Now I'm in a great band that's about to start booking fulltime, and I've spent 4 months studying poker hardcore, almost to the point of making a living off of it.

By the way, our band is seriously looking for a new name.. Something that's long-term marketable for our moneymaking cover gigs and our developing original stuff. The current name is Threewise. Not digging it. Any ideas, without starting a new thread?

The Sober Irishman wrote:By the way, our band is seriously looking for a new name.. Something that's long-term marketable for our moneymaking cover gigs and our developing original stuff. The current name is Threewise. Not digging it. Any ideas, without starting a new thread?

<b>Threeçum</b>

The Sober Irishman wrote:

jack wrote:dude, i thought you were joining the army.

our band is seriously looking for a new name.

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