My thoughts are realistic, which is worse. But don't worry I don't need help. Next year is the defining point for my drumming expectations in life, if I fail again I will just leave it and that's it. What are your expectations anyway? All I know is that you are setting up yourself for failure thru ...

The good: Having been able to witness so many fantastic drummers. The bad: Knowing I will never be one of them. EDIT: Oh sorry I thought the title was the best and worst about being a drummer, missed the older part. Well I guess it will be the same as I get older, although probably I will just leav...

The good: Having been able to witness so many fantastic drummers. The bad: Knowing I will never be one of them. EDIT: Oh sorry I thought the title was the best and worst about being a drummer, missed the older part. Well I guess it will be the same as I get older, although probably I will just leave...

Man Cliff just has the spark, his playing turns me on so much.

http://cliffalmond.com/blog/the-new-boss-article/ Cool stuff Cliff mentioning the forum. I continue thinking that if musicians have to create the music, pay to record it and then be the ones to market it and take care of the business side of it to make aprox the same money than before when the task...

OK I got to admit, Tal looked hot in that one.

^^^^not when you can't afford it. And honestly if you have no money to produce good sounding material, no one is gonna pay any mind to it anyway.

Gaddabout wrote: music is its own reward.

Unfortunately, as global economy spirals down for the worse and people are less able to have enough time and money to write and record music, that statement will become less and less acceptable.

I just think the average music buyer and the distributing tech giants seem to be oblivious of the work and costs it takes to create musical content. Recordings are sounding every day worse because people don't have the capital to record properly and home recording doesn't really cut it. Add to this ...

Very enlightening, I think the conclusion is very clear, and I happen to agree from personal experience. Taking away the factor of financing content creation is enough to take away any benefit the digital distribution might be argued to bring. I would just do a quick text edition to that one, some m...