The best way to keep the good times rolling is to change them a little.
It’s tempting to keep things the exact same once they get good since you worked so hard to get them good in the first place.
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If you want to make Rock music for a living there’s a couple things that are going to be really important for you…
-make Rock music
-participate in the world where people are making a living in Rock music. Get to know the managers and publishers, agents, labels and lawyers who already work with artists kinda like you. Get in the circles where the thing you want is already happening.
Make your music and get around, and become friends with, people who are use to doing something with that kind of music.
***Sure these days anyone can make a song and upload it from anywhere and become famous. But those are long, lonely odds. Actually participating in the world you want to live in, in person day in and day out is still a good idea.
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“I do better and get more done when the pressure is on to meet a deadline.”
This is great if you can implement and adhere to your own deadlines.
But often this isn’t the case. Often when people say that, they mean they do better when someone else is applying the pressure and the deadline. Which means ‘doing better and getting more done’ will always hinge on someone else. You’ll always be waiting around for someone else to give you a deadline in order for you to do your best work.
So one of two things.
Become the person who can implement and adhere to your own deadlines, so you can do your best work.
Or become the person who does their best work when they go to work.
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After you’ve played one?
Do you have to be the headliner?
What about the moment just before you step on a stadium stage?
What about when the agent books the stadium gig?
What about when you’re rehearsing for the prospect of a stadium gig?
When you think you’re good enough for a stadium?
When you’ve been a good steward of the smaller gigs?
When you finally have pyrotechnics?
There’s just enough gray area to say…
When do you become a stadium act?
You decide.
***A few years ago Lady Gaga played at the 5 Spot in Nashville. A capacity of about two hundred. Was she a stadium act when she was playing that show?
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You won’t be able to sustain a career by people coming out to support you.
People coming out to support you is what happens when you’re in your high school rock band and your friends and family come out to a few gigs so you don’t feel bad.
Support isn’t sustainable.
You will build a career by people coming out to be entertained by you.
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Per social media photos:
It’s not expensive to get a picture where you’re in the studio singing into a microphone. All you need is enough money for a microphone. And a pop filter to make it look real. Anyone can do it. And anyone does do it.
On the other hand…It’s very expensive to get a picture where you’re on the front of the arena stage with twenty thousand people are looking back with smiles on their faces and hands in the air. You paid dearly for that one.
The studio microphone picture is cheap and meaningless (except to the people who already care, which is important to note)
The arena picture is expensive and meaningful (as long as you’re willing to care)
So focus on the care. Both yours and theirs.
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