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Back in the 90s you didn't have to try that hard. The competition was Blockbuster Video so it wasn't that hard to get booked 5-7 nights a week in 1991. There we

Back in the 90s you didn't have to try that hard. The competition was Blockbuster Video so it wasn't that hard to get booked 5-7 nights a week in 1991. There were lots of places to play live that no longer exist. You played for donations but your share of the rent in 1991 was $175 a month. No cell phone bill, not much to spend money on because you could get your guitar and amp for cheap from a pawn shop. Today we have all this technology but music struggles because its based on live person to person physical community. Today in LA its all pay to play so music has turned into a vanity project for people with the money to buy their way in. The one way in today is to develop over the top, absolutely undeniably exceptional skills and then pair with a luthier to produce signature instruments in a partnership. Tosin Abasi has the right business model. Develop amazing technique then work with instrument makers to rely on boutique instrument sales rather than album sales or even live performance for the main income.

manmal 9y ago
Sure, but playing even 3 times per week is VERY taxing. If you play, let’s say, from 10 to 1, you probably won’t be in bed before 3. And it’s the equivalent to running 10 miles or perhaps even more, if you move a lot and try to engage the audience very much. It’s exhausting, and I don’t envy anybody who has to play every day. I don’t know how people like Justin Timerlake are able to keep this up for decades.
- tetraodonpuffer 9y ago
  just like working out it gets easier as you train, for quite a few serious runners 10 miles a day is par for the course (100mi training weeks are not that uncommon). My dad played for a living in the 60s and his band played TWO shows a day (afternoon and evening, so the schedule was get up around noon, breakfast, show, lunch, show, dinner, sleep) 6 days a week during the summer, it's just like any other type of physical labor and listening to him it definitely beat working 12 hour days in the fields which is what he did before...

manmal 9y ago

Sure, but playing even 3 times per week is VERY taxing. If you play, let’s say, from 10 to 1, you probably won’t be in bed before 3. And it’s the equivalent to running 10 miles or perhaps even more, if you move a lot and try to engage the audience very much. It’s exhausting, and I don’t envy anybody who has to play every day. I don’t know how people like Justin Timerlake are able to keep this up for decades.

tetraodonpuffer 9y ago
just like working out it gets easier as you train, for quite a few serious runners 10 miles a day is par for the course (100mi training weeks are not that uncommon). My dad played for a living in the 60s and his band played TWO shows a day (afternoon and evening, so the schedule was get up around noon, breakfast, show, lunch, show, dinner, sleep) 6 days a week during the summer, it's just like any other type of physical labor and listening to him it definitely beat working 12 hour days in the fields which is what he did before...