When does one reasonably have to give up being a musician?
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:32 am
Great subject.
For me personally, I know that I won't quit making music. It was more a re-evaluation of what about it I enjoyed about it. Gone forever are the desires of wanting any actual textbook success. Id rather "hear the death rattle of my own child" (to quote David Cross) than to be in some shitty van in some shitty club on a Tuesday night. There's too much that surrounds music that only stifles it and it gets worse all the time (since when is the "indie" world so dependant on men with eye shadow, those dumb little Beatle haircuts, and a morbid cultural fascination with the 1970's?....a handful of today's more popular indie band's dress up routines only make me hate them more....I so dearly miss the Chicago and Minneapolis of the early 90's), and I chose to streamline my endeavors to fit my attitude towards the whole thing, and I think that's a big part of the beauty of it all. I enjoy the thought of setting the process up to fit what I like to do and how I like to do it. Everyone seemingly does everything the same anyway. Long story short, now that I've let go of wanting to be involved in any said typical success, I feel like I can do whatever I feel like doing. If people like it, fine. A degree of properly applied apathy is a good thing I think.
I come from the land of GBV, and knowing what I know, I have to raise my chalace to Pollard for handling what he does the way he has. To me, he seems more genuine because he's seemingly done the vast majority of what he's done how he wants to do it. The second hand story I heard about Steve turning down the opening slot on the Pixies reunion (regardless of how much truth there is to it) makes me feel the same way. "Wow, he must actually like and give a damn about what he does musically....I bet he doesn't earn his living on his band, so he doesn't have to pimp it out to keep it afloat".
Older wiser people make better music than younger more naive people anyway.
For me personally, I know that I won't quit making music. It was more a re-evaluation of what about it I enjoyed about it. Gone forever are the desires of wanting any actual textbook success. Id rather "hear the death rattle of my own child" (to quote David Cross) than to be in some shitty van in some shitty club on a Tuesday night. There's too much that surrounds music that only stifles it and it gets worse all the time (since when is the "indie" world so dependant on men with eye shadow, those dumb little Beatle haircuts, and a morbid cultural fascination with the 1970's?....a handful of today's more popular indie band's dress up routines only make me hate them more....I so dearly miss the Chicago and Minneapolis of the early 90's), and I chose to streamline my endeavors to fit my attitude towards the whole thing, and I think that's a big part of the beauty of it all. I enjoy the thought of setting the process up to fit what I like to do and how I like to do it. Everyone seemingly does everything the same anyway. Long story short, now that I've let go of wanting to be involved in any said typical success, I feel like I can do whatever I feel like doing. If people like it, fine. A degree of properly applied apathy is a good thing I think.
I come from the land of GBV, and knowing what I know, I have to raise my chalace to Pollard for handling what he does the way he has. To me, he seems more genuine because he's seemingly done the vast majority of what he's done how he wants to do it. The second hand story I heard about Steve turning down the opening slot on the Pixies reunion (regardless of how much truth there is to it) makes me feel the same way. "Wow, he must actually like and give a damn about what he does musically....I bet he doesn't earn his living on his band, so he doesn't have to pimp it out to keep it afloat".
Older wiser people make better music than younger more naive people anyway.
