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Do you buy music?
a pack of wolves:
Or get fired from it because they wouldn't give you the holiday time and you just disappeared on them instead.
However, to get this back to the whole buying music thing I feel the fact that touring is expensive doesn't translate into the fact that people ought to give musicians money for bits of plastic and paper they're happy to do without. Maybe if more bands put out records with really worthwhile packaging then not so many people would be willing to forego them. But here we are, and all in all I don't think it's a bad thing that there are people out there growing up with the idea that music should be free lodged firmly in their minds.
Ryder:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 30 Dec 2007, 20:42 ---What on earth are you talking about? Tours are to play in new places, meet new people and generally have a great time, they are an end in and of themselves. Leader of the band? Followers when you do what? And I can't remember the last time I saw a band who weren't local that didn't have some kind of record for sale at their gigs.
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That's pretty much what I'm saying. Band mates get wages, the leader loses money on a lot of tours.
Tours are for publicity, getting fans, getting your music out into the world.
a pack of wolves:
None of what I said is remotely similar to what you're saying. You seem to be describing the life of some woeful bunch of second-rate musical hacks, doomed to get one brief mention in the NME or on local television, believe it will be their route to fame and fortune and then end up being the assistant manager at a Travelodge near Swindon, shaking their head and wondering where it all went wrong as they shed a tear and stare mournfully at a copy of the one CD single they put out on their manager's label.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 30 Dec 2007, 20:52 ---But the fact remains that "most" bands - and in fact, the overwhelming majority - don't make much more than enough from a tour to "break even", especially when you consider that you have to take time off from your "day job" in order to tour in the first place.
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I'm going to use this as a springboard to briefly talk about the New West Concert Series.
New West is something we have here in Regina down at The Club, which is this smaller, more intimate venue located beside a larger venue. The Club isn't big enough to have monitors or anything, it's basically just a tiny bar with carpeting and a spot for bands to play. Now, New West gives emerging bands an opportunity to play without paying to rent the space, and it pays a flat rate of $150 to the headlining act. The Club takes twenty percent of the door and the opening acts get the remainder. Even better, $150 is only about $50 and two beer short of playing a really popular local pub, which doesn't have a cover charge, so after playing there the first time you can probably play a New West show the second time and through merch sales and attendance make enough money off the night that it wasn't a total bust.
They afford do it through grant money, and so far as I can tell it's been successful enough that it's entering its third year.
What I'm saying here is, I wish more cities had a scheme like this so that artists with lower profiles could tour comfortably without completely going bust.
Ryder:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 31 Dec 2007, 05:02 ---None of what I said is remotely similar to what you're saying. You seem to be describing the life of some woeful bunch of second-rate musical hacks, doomed to get one brief mention in the NME or on local television, believe it will be their route to fame and fortune and then end up being the assistant manager at a Travelodge near Swindon, shaking their head and wondering where it all went wrong as they shed a tear and stare mournfully at a copy of the one CD single they put out on their manager's label.
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Oh come on. Real good music rarely appeals to the mainstream MTV ear that's used to being fed mind rotting candy. Artists struggle. They either give up and "sell out" and start doing mindless hooks and poppy garbage because it's what makes money, or they can believe in what they're trying to do, and keep going. It's a hard life if you don't have some kind of steady income.
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