OD,
A nice story. Unfortunately, you would have to add another dimension to your analogy. Imagine if EVERYONE wanted to be in construction. You lived in a neighborhood with 20 or 30 homes, housing maybe 300 people. And there were 10,000 carpenters, many of them LIVING in those houses themselves. Not only was there no money in it ,but you would almost have to PAY to work on those houses, if you could get any work. Since most of those home owners were carpenters, electricians, brick layers, plumbers, etc. themselves. And there were NO BUILDING CODES. So it really didn't matter what kind of home was put up, what kind of building materials, or any safety regulations.
A lot of those homes would fall down, catch fire or completely never get finished. And if someone else came along, they simply tear down what was built and put up their own ramshackle area. Kind of a homeless camp of boxes, crates, and bad areas. And EVERY area was like that. The next town over, the next town after that, the next city after that. Wherever you went were simply more people doing the same thing. Nobody really making anything, just putting up their own version of a living space.
With music, it is simply people MAKING THINGS UP. Now they do various things. They make people feel emotion, some good, some bad. And most are only a momentary blip on a radar screen before they are replaced with something else.
I have recently been seeing Apple's new commercials for their streaming service. They are out to blow away Pandora, Spotify, and all the others. They are STARTING OUT WITH FORTY MILLION SONGS. And they are offering that service for about $4.00 a month. So people will have access to MORE songs and be able to pay LESS for them. And the reason they can do that is that there is an ENDLESS SUPPLY.
It is the cumulative effect. When everyone is IN THE GAME, it takes all the money OUT OF THE GAME. So it goes back to the thing I have said from day one. Don't get caught up in the industry. The Industry will be what it will be and most people are not going to be involved in that. Do it for you, and what you enjoy doing. Yes, there will be a few people that break through. they always do. And in my opinion, you should always swing for the fences and make whatever you do be as good as it can be.
By the way OD, I am NEVER frustrated. I just report things the way they are. I'm not a pessimist or optimist. I am a realist. Just gotta look at all this for what it is. In my world, there will always be someone coming along wanting to learn about this. Just like Golf. It will always be driven by passion and many people will always have that passion.
Just got to try to keep your passions from making you broke.
A nice story. Unfortunately, you would have to add another dimension to your analogy. Imagine if EVERYONE wanted to be in construction. You lived in a neighborhood with 20 or 30 homes, housing maybe 300 people. And there were 10,000 carpenters, many of them LIVING in those houses themselves. Not only was there no money in it ,but you would almost have to PAY to work on those houses, if you could get any work. Since most of those home owners were carpenters, electricians, brick layers, plumbers, etc. themselves. And there were NO BUILDING CODES. So it really didn't matter what kind of home was put up, what kind of building materials, or any safety regulations.
A lot of those homes would fall down, catch fire or completely never get finished. And if someone else came along, they simply tear down what was built and put up their own ramshackle area. Kind of a homeless camp of boxes, crates, and bad areas. And EVERY area was like that. The next town over, the next town after that, the next city after that. Wherever you went were simply more people doing the same thing. Nobody really making anything, just putting up their own version of a living space.
With music, it is simply people MAKING THINGS UP. Now they do various things. They make people feel emotion, some good, some bad. And most are only a momentary blip on a radar screen before they are replaced with something else.
I have recently been seeing Apple's new commercials for their streaming service. They are out to blow away Pandora, Spotify, and all the others. They are STARTING OUT WITH FORTY MILLION SONGS. And they are offering that service for about $4.00 a month. So people will have access to MORE songs and be able to pay LESS for them. And the reason they can do that is that there is an ENDLESS SUPPLY.
It is the cumulative effect. When everyone is IN THE GAME, it takes all the money OUT OF THE GAME. So it goes back to the thing I have said from day one. Don't get caught up in the industry. The Industry will be what it will be and most people are not going to be involved in that. Do it for you, and what you enjoy doing. Yes, there will be a few people that break through. they always do. And in my opinion, you should always swing for the fences and make whatever you do be as good as it can be.
By the way OD, I am NEVER frustrated. I just report things the way they are. I'm not a pessimist or optimist. I am a realist. Just gotta look at all this for what it is. In my world, there will always be someone coming along wanting to learn about this. Just like Golf. It will always be driven by passion and many people will always have that passion.
Just got to try to keep your passions from making you broke.
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