I mean, by 23 I was also pretty fed up with every single aspect of the music scene/business too. It's a cut throat field that routinely necessitates itself instead of by demand, and is full of endless well established excuses to insert middlemen who don't do shit except take it off the top. I'm not kidding in the slightest when I say I've met more upstanding drug dealers than people at lower levels of the music business, and that especially includes musicians. I quit playing guitar for years simply because my dream of being a professional guitarist went up in smoke, only because I flat out hated every level of the industry that I had seen. His advice to cut right to getting the attention of an audience and building that consistently is probably the best advice anyone can get these days, especially with everything being online anymore. If you have your own audience you don't need to brown nose some piece of shit promoter to score a half hour opening slot at Jimmy's Buffet and Island Brothel for two sodas and a basket of peanuts.
But most of all I like how abrupt he is about calling out all the bullshit we've all heard a million times. The things you believe when you're a little more hopeful than you are realistic, all that bullshit.
But most of all I like how abrupt he is about calling out all the bullshit we've all heard a million times. The things you believe when you're a little more hopeful than you are realistic, all that bullshit.
