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Re: Andre Lafosse Freebies and sales...



Oh, I don't think it has to or should be separated, in fact, I think 
just the opposite.  I think we all should be able to support ourselves 
doing what we love... I just haven't been able to make that world work 
for me, and when I tried I just got very cranky.  I found me trying to 
please an audience at the expense of enjoying what I was doing because 
I knew if I didn't get enough heads in the club, it was coming out of 
my wallet.  I couldn't find a way to combine the worlds.  Others here 
have.  I'm totally happy I figured it out for myself, and it won't work 
the same for everyone.  My brother tried teaching and he hated it, but 
did it to pay the bills.  I can't do the same.  Music is too precious 
to me.  I'm not saying you *have* to sell out to make good money in the 
music world... but it sure helps.

Mark Sottilaro

On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 05:51 AM, Goddess wrote:

>   Mark, as  a teacher, this is an interesting  argument, -I don't think
> it's necessary to separate the idea of music with compensation.   -In 
> other
> words, to say that because one may think about money, they must not be
> thinking about music or vice versa.
>   -Hopefully I'm reading you right.  Anyway, I play and I teach, and I 
> very
> much expect some compensation for my time and efforts, and am 
> completely OK
> in doing so.  -By this, I mean, I may not always get it, but I'd hope
> people around me would feel that what I'm doing is worth while enough 
> for
> it.   -and not because I feel that that's how I should be repaid so to
> speak, but because it's just a simple fact that people demand money 
> from me
> in the world we live in, and I provide something.   So I feel that I 
> should
> be repaid for it.  -otherwise, I'll starve!   lol!
>    -and then I won't be doing anybody much good, now will I?!   lol!
> Anyway,  I've learned and practiced and such, for a while, and am OK
> hopefully at what I do.  So, with this in mind, I don't feel there's
> anything wrong with asking for something in return.
>   Now, re: the music itself, when I play, or try to teach someone
> something, I'm not thinking of the money at all.  I'm totally and
> completely focused on the idea at hand, and doing well by the music, 
> -my
> student, -myself.  -the idea itself...  I try to deal with the payment
> issue before or after.   -just my thoughts, -thought I might chime 
> in...
> -Have an awesome weekend!, K?
>
> Smiles,
>
> Cara
>
> At 01:49 PM 5/22/03 -0700, you wrote:
>> I may be half the guitarist, but I gladly trade that for the ability 
>> to
>> make music with no expectation of compensation at all.  I couldn't do 
>> a
>> wedding band thing.  Music is too precious to me.  Instead, I now do
>> media design.  Total sell out, but they don't touch my music.
>>
>> Good luck Andre.  I want to believe you'll succeed.  In a way, you
>> have.  On the fringe your either 1) a hack or 2) too advanced to be
>> understood my most.  Either way, it sucks, but I think we can all 
>> agree
>> that you're not a hack.
>>
>> Mark Sottilaro
>>
>> On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 12:25  AM, ernesto schnack wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 21 May 2003 23:11:22 -0700, Andre LaFosse
>>> <altruist@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>> Now, that's a better fate than assembling Nike shoes for $2.00 an
>>>> hour,
>>>> or crawling out of rubble in Baghdad right now.  But when I think
>>>> about
>>>> all the traffic going through my site, and how little of an impact 
>>>> it
>>>> has on my actual day-to-day existence, it makes me wonder how much
>>>> time
>>>> I may have wasted by focusing so intensely on the EDP, as opposed to
>>>> more bread-and-butter things that might actually lead to my 
>>>> generating
>>>> some income from the music-related skills I've been cultivating for
>>>> about 25 years.
>>>>
>>
>>
>
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