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The welfare case (or more generally: working as a musician exclusively
but deducting an income from sources not directly connected to making
music) makes this a little bit more complicated: Ludwig van Beethoven
(who received a pension from Duke Waldstein based on his living in
Vienna) or Karlheinz Stockhausen and Richard Strauß (both married a rich
girl)...
Still I understand your point relating to "pro" how your life plan
works, as opposed to how good you are, although this gives the pro
abbreviation a meaning closer related to "profitable"...
Rainer
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Travis Hartnett [mailto:travishartnett@gmail.com]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2005 18:00
An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Betreff: Re: Building a rackmount looping computer as an alternative to
the Receptor for Mobius
> So your definition of pro or non-pro is entirely based on the
> economics.
Yes!
> Which would make somebody living off welfare and at the same time
> trying to get somebody interested in their entirely unprofessional art
> is a professional,
No--the welfare case isn't paying his bills from money derived from
music-making activities. In a related case: Vincent van Gogh was never
a professional painter.
Bryan Beller: no, wasn't a professional musician until recently. Has
existed in the semi-pro years since leaving college under my definition.
Another related case: Philip Glass drove a taxi and installed kitchen
appliances to pay the bills until the early 80's.
TravisH
On 10/16/05, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <rs@moinlabs.de>
wrote:
> So your definition of pro or non-pro is entirely based on the
> economics. Which would make somebody living off welfare and at the
> same time trying to get somebody interested in their entirely
> unprofessional art is a professional, while somebody like e.g. Bryan
> Beller (of Mike Keneally/Beer for Dolphins, Z, Steve Vai,
> Mullmuzzler/Jamie LaBrie etc.) isn't (or at least hasn't been until
> shortly).
>