spankenstein wrote on Wed, 28 April 2004 09:46 |
It's this point that it becomes a fine line I think. Making music or making business.
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that's the thing, even in this giant discussion of what indie rock is and isn't.....making music IS business
you can't remove the business from it. it's just a matter of what business you are trying to get, maintain, and create.
i have not once met an artist that didn't want at least one other person (outside their band or engineer) to hear the music.
music for the love of music is fine, and i'm sure it exists some where, but i don't ever see it. for that to TRULY be the case, that "artist" will never leave their home with the intention of performing the music, and never once consider, or want to, record it. it's simply music that exists out of loving music solely. as far as i'm concerned, that just doesn't exist in my world.
so the inverse must be true. music is business. as soon as you play a gig, record a demo or record, make T-shirts, stickers, buttons, and/or flyers, you've started your business.
what i'm saying is that you have to have some idea of where you want that business to end up.
denying the fact that art is business, IMO, is simply ignoring the entire scope of the process.
this is true for all forms of art. at least, i whole heartedly believe this to be true, and i have yet to be convinced otherwise.