DLG
not guthrie govan
looking forward to a thinning of the herd actually.
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Sadly, we live in a world primarily populated with simpletons who prefer the simple and mediocre over the complex and unique. Our news headlines are flooded with what Kim K is doing, the Twilight saga has pulled in billions of dollars (ever watch those mind numbing pieces of shit?), and Miley Cyrus is worth an estimated 150 million dollars when the national average salary for nuclear physicists is 85K.
Only thing we can do is pickup and move to another planet, and that option isn't currently available.
Rev.
The internet has made thousands of bands FEEL as if they're closer to making it, to breaking out, than more bands ever did before, and the internet is oblivious to this trick it's pulling. It isn't any easier to be a professional, probably harder, but the expectation and entitlement is there for a lot of people.
Keep in mind that although records don't have the huge budgets they used to the technology means it costs a lot less to make that's why recording studios are going out of business because back then bands were forced to use them because of the thousands of dollars of hardware needed to get decent music, nowadays most household pc's are powerful enough to do the same things so you get lot's of people with home studio's dratiscally reducing the money needed to record an album and with digital forms of distrubution
Very much this... while shouldn't the "internet era" really have encouraged the opposite feeling? We're seeing simultaneously (1) how many freaking bands and artists are out there competing for an audience, (2) how fractured, niche-y, and fickle that audience is, and (3) there are more channels of releasing music out there than any artist (or even label) has the man-power to pursue. And this is all in-addition to mainstream radio and MTV.
That is daunting even for a mainstream artist.