Time Stamps vs. Timeless

Don’t worry about making your music free of time stamps.

No time stamps does not equal timeless.

Timeless music comes from great songs the people still listen to many years from now.

We actually love time stamps.

Tiny Dancer sounds like the early 70’s… timeless.

I Will Always Love You, the Whitney Houston version always sounds a lot like the early 90’s…timeless.

If you’re making music today put today’s time stamp on it.

And maybe one day we’ll talk about your timeless song from 2019.

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The Extent To Which

You’ll never know the extent to which…

The ‘extent to which’ can only be seen in hindsight.

No need to stress yourself out on figuring out the extent.

You simply have to do the best with what you have at the time. And what you have at the time is some facts, some educated guesses, experience, a sharp eye, intuition, perseverance, care.

Put your focus on growing those things and the ‘extent to which’ will keep veering itself toward good things.

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Keep The Good Times Rolling

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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The World You Want To Live In

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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Good Work and Deadlines

“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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When Do You Become A Stadium Act?

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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