The Music Business is Hard Work

It appears that many bands looking for fame and fortune
do not understand the music business is a real JOB.

There appears to be many times your work is unpaid.
That is true but necessary to the nature of the job.

Look at the regular shift workers and see how your
music job compares.

• Do you miss scheduled practice?
• Are you only occasionally working a gig?
• Do other activities take priority over your music?
• Do you watch your health ?
• Are you chronically late for practice and gigs?
• Are you available to book gigs or talk to club owners?
• Are you available for Internet or radio interviews?
• Do you communicate with your fans?
• Do you rethink your band's role locally? Nationally?

Compare to a regular job and see if you are working to advance.

Read the CD Insert

When I buy new music I quickly tear
into the packaging to get to the cd and
drop it into my cd player.
While taking that 1st listen to each band
or artist I am reading the liner notes.

Please read the cd liner notes.
The 'Thank You's' from the band or
individual artist mean a lot to them
and they want you to know that there
were so many contributions to make
that cd available for you and I.

The cd liner notes give you a little insight
to the many occupations in the music industry.
Sometimes you find that members of a band
or a single artist takes on additional jobs in
producing or engineering their own cd.

Those of us on the sidelines who are the
support network are listed sometimes.
There are fans, fan clubs and street teams
who get their props also.

Please read the liner notes and learn more
about who, what & why got that music cd
from the studio to you.

Wear the fox hat

Just because the Miller Beer folks beat the censors
on this commercial:

http://www.bofunk.com/video/1615/wear_the_fox_hat.html