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11-16-2006, 08:49 AM
| | | | How do we define personal success in the music industry?
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At which point would you consider an artist successful?
Record deal?
Selling out arenas worldwide?
Making enough money to feed a small nation?
or
Having a loyal audience?
Having fun?
Making enough to buy more gear? |
11-16-2006, 08:54 AM
|  | I Know Nothing | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | Having health insurance paid for by the gig.  |
11-16-2006, 12:20 PM
| | I <3 Darkstar | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Riverside, CA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by studentaccount1 At which point would you consider an artist successful?
Record deal?
Selling out arenas worldwide?
Making enough money to feed a small nation?
or
Having a loyal audience?
Having fun?
Making enough to buy more gear? | It varies person to person.
I haven't reached my pinnacle of success yet, I am sure of that. When we can successfully headline an entire US Tour, at venues 500+, than I will consider myself successful enough to die happy.
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11-16-2006, 01:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | I want to have my name on one CD insert as a bass player and I'll be happy.
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11-16-2006, 01:28 PM
| | | | having fun. |
11-16-2006, 01:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Voorhees, NJ | | | I think once a band has fans, they're successful. Like, various fans. Not friends and family and friends of family. |
11-16-2006, 02:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Windsor, Ont. | | | -Being signed to a popular label
-Touring/opening for well known, signed bands
-Being in regular rotation on the radio
-Winning a grammy
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11-16-2006, 02:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland | | | I think anyone who makes their living from playing music is successful.
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11-16-2006, 02:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas | | | What about King's X? These guys have been around for a long time, have a loyal following but have really been ignored by in large except for critics and their loyal following. I'd like to ask them this question. |
11-16-2006, 02:38 PM
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Hi-fi into an old tube amp | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: SW | | | Short range- having a good name in the local scene, opening up for a national act or at a big fest.
Medium range- lasting on a DYI tour for a few months.
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11-16-2006, 02:40 PM
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Owner/Retailer: Jive Sound | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alexandria,VA | | | Success = Not having to schlep your gear to a gig |
11-17-2006, 09:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ribwich, ZF | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by tplyons I want to have my name on one CD insert as a bass player and I'll be happy. | Same here. Well, it has to be released by some obscure record label that nobody has heard of. My name is already on one former band's very-pro-looking self-released demo, which I give my success a B+ for.
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11-17-2006, 09:47 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Success is making music that touches people and that people enjoy.
Of course, there is a huge amount of difference between the most and least successful. |
11-17-2006, 01:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Boston, Taxachusetts | | I look back at the last 26 years since I played my first paid gig for $7.50 and free beer...
-- I'm on over half a dozen recordings, with more in the pipe
-- I've played and recorded with a few of my musical heroes
Michael Hurley 
Rufus Thomas 
Doug James 
Danny Poullard 
Mark Sandman 
-- I've appeared in a movie
-- I'm still out gigging 2-4 nights every week
So looking back I've been more successful than I probably deserve |
11-17-2006, 01:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: The little red dot on the map. | | | To me, at least being recognised locally... And at Talkbass...
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11-17-2006, 01:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | Being able to tour for most of the year, and to be able to have a wide fanbase would be success in my book. Enough money to live while touring, as well. |
11-17-2006, 03:29 PM
| | | | Those are some good answers.
Success for me would be for my music to make an impression on someone the way musicians that I look up to have made impressions on me.
Gas money is nice too. |
11-17-2006, 03:37 PM
| | | | The bottom line. Money... Enough to be comfortable, after divorce, that is! |
11-17-2006, 04:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New Zealand | | | 2 gigs a week @ $150 NZD a night. nice pocket money. |
11-17-2006, 04:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Kiwi Kid 2 gigs a week @ $150 NZD a night. nice pocket money. | not shabby at all mate
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