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Date Posted: 05/11/09 1:25pm
Author: Bobbe Seymour
Subject: Musicians Dilemna

Hello fellow players,

I’ve had many responses to last week’s email and how everybody agreed with me, understood me and realized how the email had answered many of their unasked questions really astounds me.

So where do great, well-known players go when they retire? It seems like they just want to quit because they really don’t want to keep going through the bad and hard times that they endured back when they were youthful and learning their craft.

Here’s an email from one of my readers that pretty well explains what I’m saying.

Once again you hit the nail on the head. Friends and relatives always ask why I no longer perform in the New Orleans area. Some of the reasons are: 1. $40.00 for a four hour gig in a smokey bar doesn't cut it. 2. It is not worth the abuse from the low life bar owner. 3. Too many bad players out there. 4. Too dangerous in the New Orleans area. Too many drunks on the drive home, not to mention the felons. 5. The pay does not warrant lugging heavy equipment around at four in the morning. 6. The pay does not warrant the abuse from audience drunks...

I used to live for weekend band jobs, but not any more. I agree with everything in your e mail.
I hate to be negative, but at times reality smacks you in the face. I got smacked about five years ago. Ha!

Great email newsletter. Always enjoy them.

Michael

The reason I’m showing you Michael’s email is because I must have received a hundred just like it from great musicians that have been used, abused and beat up over years of trying to play good music in bad places.

Granted, all places to play aren’t horrible, but there are plenty of employers that musicians run into that seem to think that musicians shouldn’t be paid very much for their craft.

I personally feel that with what a musician has to go through to learn his craft and the dangers he has to subject himself to and the steps he has to take overall to become a good professional musician are as time consuming as what any lawyers has to go through to attain prominence in their field.

From the outside, it looks like a lot more fun to be a musician than a lawyer. This is a point I won’t argue, but we both have about the same reputation when we try to borrow money at a bank.



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