Lots of good practical advice on this thread. What I get is,

- You are NOT going to be discovered by chance some night while playing!

- And if you don't put in LOTS and LOTS of work, you're going to sell the kinda numbers Eddie mentioned (number of friends minus friends who don't like you enough to buy your CD).


About the only thing I'd respectfully disagree with is "If you do it yourself it'll happen." cause, even with lots of work, the odds are still against you selling anything significant enough over a long enough period of time to make it worth leaving your day job (unless you have a really crummy day job!)

And I'm certainly not saying you shouldn't try. By all means if it makes you happy go for it! Its just good to know the odds and go into this with your eyes wide open rather than dreaming of being discovered or creating a large enough fan base that you can maintain long enough to make any decent money from.