Advice

[downrightamazed]

They will tell you only your playing matters -- that if you're good enough at your instrument(s) people will buy your records and come to hear you play. So you must spend all your time learning your instrument(s) to the utmost

Comments

[cheetahdave]

Though this is accurate, it is also worth noting that your particular advice to this particular band, so far, has been gold. While you're right that I must define success for myself and be my own filter for information I choose to accept, I'd be foolish to reject your assistance and thoughts, because as with any other endeavor, those who have succeeded have at least one template for success.

You just played four of the best sets I have seen out of you. The people that were there loved it. By all rights, you deserved to have more people there, and more sales, and more professional recognition, and all that. But to me, you have already nailed all the 'success' hurdles that matter internally, and now you're struggling for that gold record.

Or maybe just 25 CDs sold in the same night.

[downrightamazed]

25! Dude I'd love that. I've had like two shows where I sold that much merch in a night, but that's totally 'cos they were "first gig"-type shows. Well, and Reverence.

>"those who have succeeded have at least one template for success"

That's a good point, and one reason why the advice "they" give out can't be ignored, but at the same time can't necessarily be followed to a T. It's like anything else; if there was a formula for success then it wouldn't be success.

[nulldevice]

I can say with some certainty though that what I didn't do that didn't not work for me, will also not work for you if you don't not do it.

[downrightamazed]

Um, well said?

[batterycage]

whoa dude....can i buy pot from you?

[downrightamazed]

Hey man, buy my weed.

[flightofscarlet]

Sometimes I think it's just luck.
The world is strange like that.

p.s that if you perform the correct stunts
I am curious to see these stunts.
Do they involve a banana and a bowling ball?

[downrightamazed]

Oh it's definitely luck past a certain point, but that's not really what I'm after here. And man, I'd love to know what the "correct stunts" are, 'cos then I'd do 'em.