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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Funniest band name ever |
| Date | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:08:23 -0400 |
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At Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:36:48 Bob wrote:
>Re Doug Powell: I quite enjoy some of his music too, but I am finding it
>difficult to comprehend the wailing and gnashing of teeth over his decision
>to do something else for a living. (1) I thought virtually all indie
>power-poppers had "day-jobs", even the ones lucky enough to have their job
>in the music biz, eg production, journalism, promotion, whatever; (2) The
>ones that do it as a hobby, do it because they love making music - and you
>can't force someone to do what they don't wanna do any longer. Just my
>tuppence worth.
You should have heard the collective gasp when I decided to trade in a 12
year union job with the City Of Scarborough to run a record label full-time.
My parents still want to know when I'm going to go back to my real job.
I respect any musician who has given it the old college try and decides, for
reasons of self-preservation and/or their loved ones, that moving on to
something else might be the best course of action. Talent be damned when
it's killing your creativity and your will to live.
What a lot of non-musician music fans fail to comprehend is that being in
the music business is tantamount to being a willing victim of an abusive
relationship. The industry kicks the crap out of us and yet we claim to love
it and wouldn't trade it for anything. If this were happening to a friend
who was a data entry clerk or a janitor you'd probably tell them to quit
their jobs for being treated so badly....or a friend who was in a
relationship with a good-for-nothing spouse. And yet, in the music and film
industry it's shrugged off as normal behaviour.
Mileage in the business depends on stamina and tolerance in being
humiliated, disappointed, and ripped-off over and over again.
Now that I think of it....why the hell do *I* put up with it?
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!!"
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
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