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Yeah, you can make a living in music under certain conditions. I know for a fact in the past and maybe even now all I have to do is call some agents and I would get on with somebody and hit the road. Again. I can see it now, Grandpa Bob is back!!



As long as they have soup and soft foods on the dressing room buffet...

Let's all not lose sight of the fact that there are a lot of ways to make money in music outside of schlepping gear from bar to bar. You can schlep it to a studio and do commercial spots, create your own Wrecking Crew, write spots for ads, soundtrack for The Weather Channel.... a friend here did a spot for an annual winter event that is running for like the 18th year now. I dod one long ago that was soundtrack behind a video for some environmental waste company and they needed me for synth sound effects. I worked maybe 45 minutes (over 6 hours) and got a check that just broke 4 figures. If I could do one of those a week and sneak it under the tax radar....