TIK: "So down at the Turkish place I'm sitting across from this jackass...
He is German....
He doesn't work...
Like so many, including some of my clients, they don't have to work, the gov just gives them cash....and pays their rent.
My refrigerator is fukken empty, I have no health insurance and invested my life savings in my studio. Next week the fukken assholes are going to collect three-thousand euros in taxes for 2005 from me.
It's going straight to the retard I had lunch with....(he didn't pay for mine btw}.
It's a tough thing to watch people around you 'get it all for nothing' while you bust your ass to make end's meet. I think he should have bought you lunch. I would have.. Really.
TIK: "Now...
This guy and a lot of others like him, hang out all day long and smoke and drink and have an opinion about everything....most of them know everything as well, just ask them...
But in the end, and everywhere else, they are human beings with no less a right to exist than I have. Do they actually lack character? Or is it just my perspective? I mean, these guys would never go to bat for anyone, they are usually self-centered and selfish in every way. I have seen evidence again and again that they will not meet you half way. They expect a hand out at the studio concerning working on their music and everything else. These are the types that won't do an extra take even when it costs them nothing....
I don't want to be close minded and would love to wax philosophical about the entire clan of them....
I also want to knock them the fukk out!"
Well whether or not they have character is a matter of perspective. From your perspective, mine and most everyone here I imagine the answer is No. Your comment about these guys never having the thought of going to bat for someone else concerns me. It seems you would like to go to bat for them but, if they wont swing the bat for even them selves then you will be wasting your time?. Maybe they change? If they seem to be misguided punk ass kid's who you think could grow as people if they're shown a path of hard work and the reward that follows, then maybe it's a worthwhile venture. I don't know. Do they LOVE music? Do they know how lucky they are to be able to play it? Do you think they can grow out of being so lazy that they wont even do another take? If the answer is no, I'd be careful about giving to much to those who don't understand giving..
TIK: "Personally, the most rewarding period of my life, with very few exceptions, has been since I've come to this forum. It has given me access to attitudes far advanced than my previous experience.
Me too. I've learned a lot here and it still amazes me to think who posts here. Some of these folks around here helped invent what we know as modern day record making. They were recording hit's and making it up as they went [with the help of serious knowledge about proper engineering technique in many cases, of course}, and I am a much better recordist, mixer, and player thanks to the reading I've done here.. Aint it grand?
TIK: The real knowledge that comes from building something and running a sucessful business. The daily fukken stuggle. Is it worth it? Are you a better man than a jag off that knows nothing and gets his government pellet every day?
I feel the need to mentor as well as be mentored. I love it when young people appreciate my time and I totally appreciate anyone that wastes their time with me.
So don't I have an obligation to kick these lazy assholes in the nuts and get them going? Isn't it time to slip on the jackboots and mentor away?
Is it hypocritcal to be gracious?
I really can't express the exact sentiments I have on this.
Somewhere between buying them a beer and pouring one on them.
any thoughts?"
tik
If you feel obligated, Then that's how you feel. Somewhere in your mind/heart, you feel that these guy's could be a worthwhile project. Or, you see that they are NOT worth your time and this pisses you off and on some level breaks your heart. FWIW, Yes, I feel that the hard work you are doing makes you a better man ,at least as it relates to what most of us think of as 'being a man'. I wont pretend to know where they stand in the eye's of God or anything but I tend to think that people who work hard for what they have appreciate what they have and through this, they are put in a position to help others. It's like a circle I guess. You help your self and see what good can come of it so, you then turn to help others in the hope that good will come from it. Kindness is Kindness and It feels good. Whether your helping you, or helping someone else, it just feels good.
I have given a lot of time and effort away in the past and I don't regret it at all. Even when it was not appreciated or, I at least was given that impression, it was still worth it because I learned so much about people and recording. The one thing I will warn you about, and, I'm sure you're way ahead of me already on this is,, Don't get into something that can break you!! Make sure that, if you are going to help these guys, the bills are paid first.. You need to be in a position to help them if that's what you're going to do so, strangely enough, they end up at both the TOP and the BOTTOM of the list. They make the Top in line to be mentored but they make the Bottom in terms of making sure the Business flys. It's a tough deal.. I don't need to tell you that, I'll bet you already know.
Sorry for the long ass post. It's just that I've been through this kind of thing as many here have. I bet this aint your first time around either..
Good luck bro..
Ivan..............................