Subject:
Many
months ago I had a feeling..........., today I constantly
have a curiosity :
if
you are a musician who work in an independent area, not
only for necessity, but because your musical choices took
yourself to operate in this area, which are the most
common ways to live on your work?
Concerts,
selling CD are enough to live on ?
What
do you think about it ? By N.A.S.
Email: naskom@tin.it
 Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 5:43
AM-
- Dear N (annell) AS
- You have touch a really
interesting topic. Your question is the same
- question I ask to my self :
"How can I live on my rare concerts and CD's
?"
- Sometimes the question becames
harder : " Am I still living on ?" or
"Am I
- still living tout court ?".
- There is an only reason because
living on music is so hard : There are too
- many musicians in the world.
- You say "world" and a
lot of new musicians have finished their first
- demotepe and they are sending it
to your favourite label.
- During hearly 80's a big hope took
hourself : The AIDS virus.
- Our argument was : Tradicionally
musicians are hard fuckers so they are
- subject to infection more then
others.
- But things did not go in this way
at all.
- The good hold days when Charlye
Parker died of everything after his
- millionth fuck with drags and
alcol are finished.
- Recently musicians don't fuck at
all. They spend all the time in front to
- the computer producing thousand of
DAT's or writable CD's.
- A digital infection should be
desirable, but recently hakers appear a little
- tired.
- If you find a solution for this
very big proplem please give me any news.
- Regards
- Maurizio Dami
- mau.dami@agora.stm.it
- http://www.agora.stm.it/Mau.Dami/mauhome.htm
- Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 12:07
AM
-
- Hello N.A.S.
- I (and the members of SEMA) find
many ways to make a living from our
- music. We co-operate with each
other to secure gigs, sell CDs via mail
- order and at gigs, as well as
distributing over the internet and by
- conventional distribution methods.
We produce music for other people,
- negotiate record contracts and
publishing contracts.
- In my experience you need two
things to make a living from music.
- 1) be good at what you do
- 2) create a 'marketable' product
(i.e. make music that people want to
- hear).
- The rest is easy.
- Take a look at http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/sema/
- Richard Coppen
- Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 7:52 PM
-
- I have to work in a bank, 9 to 6,
to survive. And going to play every night,
- saturday and sunday included. But
I'm going to dismiss in a couple of month,
- can't stand this life-style
anymore; this is not what I call
"living".
-
- Matteo Curcio
- curciom@pointest.com
-
-
-
-
- Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998
4:41 AM
-
- Hi N.A.S.
- In Hong Kong, you cannot earn a
living in working in the indie scene. The
- mainstream market just block your
development and our indie market here is
- too small. Unless you are very
aggressive and have very good channels with
- the mainland China media, then you
may earn your living by going thru
- different gigs in pubs all over
China.
- Otherwise, if you want to earn
your living by selling your own CD, that is
- impossible at all.
- Best regards,
- Michael Lam
- michael@excelpro.com.h
-
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