Originally Posted By: Notes Norton
It sure beats a regular job.


Music IS your regular job. Music as a career is a job. You buy tools, you use those tools, you practice every day to refine your skills.

While the performance is fun, the overall sense of it being a job isn't always. The bands I played in had HUGE PA systems, unlike the smaller systems of today with 2 powered speakers on a pole and a small mixer.

24 channel board, 18" subs, 15 inch low mids, 10 inch high mids, tweeter horns, 100 ft snake, huge power amp rack.... It was a 2 hour setup by the time it was all wired. And then a minimum of a 6 song sound check (so everybody could do one song they sang front on).... Now with everything prerecorded, small PA systems.... setup takes 10 minutes. Unload takes longer than setup. grin