Musician’s Life

Hi, thanks for visiting my new blog.

I thought I’d start a new blog talking about my life as a musician. Then a realized that every post would start, “I spent most of today scratching my ass,” so I decided that I’d also include posts about stuff online that will help musicians along in their efforts to put burgers and fries on the table.

It’s a hard life being a musician. Unless you make it big, of course. The perception of life as a musician is that of rock-star decadence and endless parties and good times. There is quite a lot of that. But there’s also a lot of wondering how the hell you’re going to eat.

I think this is without doubt the best time to be a musician (at least a not very popular one). In the online world, you can find your audience. Even if you’re a very niche artist (hello all Egyptian nose-banjo players), there are people out there in the world that will buy your music. So, as well as documenting my trials and tribulations, I’m going to be talking about a few of that ways that bands can make money and keep themselves alive while living the musician’s life.