Re: Re: Zoe Keating in NY Times article.@borisfx.com

[Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com>]

> No disrespect meant Rick, but you seriously can't get gigs that make you
> more than $50 in Santa Cruz?

Actually, I wrote that, not Daniel (just for the record).

While I admit to having about zero experience with this, I'm friends
with a fair number of folks who seem to have found away to get some
money from making music (and I don't know their real financial
situation at all, days jobs or what not).  I was just surprised that
the amount for you was so low.

FWIW (and probably very very little) I always kind of thought the way
to do this sort of thing was to establish a scene that is just a cool
place to be and that by creating a good time and atmosphere you would
eventually begin to pull in some kind of income (or at least enough to
make it worthwhile-assuming you're having a good time that shouldn't
be too hard).  Find a place that's loose enough to let you create
something and if it works, people will tell more people and the scene
will grow.

While I very much doubt I will ever make money for playing music, I'm
in a similar situation with visual projection.  I think I have a
pretty great and psychedelic sensibility that really raises the level
of the gigs I've been at and yet getting paid to do that has been
really a tough sell.  Why would people want to pay for such an 'extra'
to the music when its not really a necessity?

But I should stop before I embarrass myself talking like Micky Rooney
to Judy Garland about putting on a show.

Sorry to hear its as hard as it is in the trenches.

Kevin
-- 
Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a
form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all trouble.

- Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)