“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”
"I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument, and an unsuspected yearning to learn to play on it, that are bound to wake up and demand attention some day."
"Any art or habit of life, if it is limited chronically to a few processes that are easiest to acquire, must at some time become so weakened that it is neither a part of art nor a part of life. The simplest ratios, called perfect consonances, have been used so long and so constantly that audiences have become soft. If they hear anything but doh-me-soh or a near cousin, they have to be carried out on a stretcher."
“I had no idea what I was doing and I faked it and it worked” - Dave Grohl
"To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it." - Trent Reznor
“I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I play everybody.” - David Bowie
Originally Posted By: Lloyd S
"It's hard to take a teenage heavy metal band seriously, when they have a clarinet player."
Comedian Craig Ferguson (He was the clarinet player!)
How about if said metal band has not only a clarinet player but a guitarist playing a shovel?
Clarinet is at 2:10, and is playing a note-for-note cover of what the original guitarist played - wild!
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"The sousaphone was originally used as a primitive mine-clearing device, in that nobody would miss the sousaphone player if he found one." - Jeph Jacques
My favorite wasn't "famous" but funny. Lawrence Welk was doing a show. During the first set, one of the trumpet players snuck off the stage and Welk assumed it was a bathroom thing. During the intermission he asked and the guy told him yes, he had to use the bathroom. With the famous Lawrence Welk dry sense of humor, Lawrence said "You knew about this job a month ago."
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
1. How much did you make in 2023? 2. Send it to us.
Miles Davis or Charlie Parker (old man memory issue) once asked a guy "What the hell was that?" The reply was "I'm just playing what I feel." The reply to that was "Then feel something in Bb mutha *****."
That sounds more like Miles to me.
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
1. How much did you make in 2023? 2. Send it to us.
Q: What do you call a musician without a girlfriend?
A: Homeless.
or possibly happy
Closer to the mark for me - I'm single and happy, because I can spend my money on guitars instead of girlfriends
My point exactly. No need to explain why I just spent almost £1500 on gear in the Black Friday sales.
And no need to explain why I dropped $1200 on a new work desktop, $1000 on a new gaming computer, and then turned around and spent $700 on a new Playstation!
And no need to explain why I dropped $1200 on a new work desktop, $1000 on a new gaming computer, and then turned around and spent $700 on a new Playstation!
Buuut ... those things are not helping you get that house.
When I was trying to buy a home, I lived in a tied flat at a peppercorn rent in exchange fore care-taking work. I also did several jobs, totalling around 90 hours a week (of work, not elapsed). I had no TV, I already had a HiFi but funded my records and a van through DJing. 90 hours work meant I had little time for games anyway, though a lot of that work was running a bar, so at least I could socialise. As a Baby Boomer, I'm always being told how relatively cheap houses were when I bought, but people forget the alarming interest rates we had to pay ... 25% when I bought a very small two-bedroom flat. My entire salary went on the mortgage and we lived on my wife's salary and the DJing. I doubt it's ever been easy, or ever will be easy.
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful. Kawai MP6, Korg M50, Ui24R, Saffire Pro 40. AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11; Win8.1: Scarletts BIAB2022 UltraPAK, Reaper, a bunch of stuff.
I'm sorry, that was rude. It's none of my business.
I can only apologise that I'm still very bitter at how my the end of my career and health were trashed, partly by people who thought that, as a Baby Boomer, I'd "had it all".
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful. Kawai MP6, Korg M50, Ui24R, Saffire Pro 40. AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11; Win8.1: Scarletts BIAB2022 UltraPAK, Reaper, a bunch of stuff.
As a Baby Boomer, I'm always being told how relatively cheap houses were when I bought, but people forget the alarming interest rates we had to pay ... 25%
I forgot how high the mortgage rates were back then. When I got married back in 1984, and it was obvious that I was going to be staying in Mobile, we went house hunting and the mortgage rates were a big factor in what we could afford. I remember that we were just about to pull the trigger on a house with an outlandish rate when a dentist that I supervised at the Health Department told me that he was selling his home that had a transferable FHA loan @ 14% and I jumped on it. Compare that to the 1.5% that I pay now and you realize just how much of our mortgage payments now go into equity as opposed to interest.
When my father purchased the house I now live in back in 1961 it cost £600. He didn’t even have a mortgage, the company he worked for loaned him the money and charged him no interest at all. That’s something that is never likely to be repeated these days.
As far as I know, mortgage rates dropped to entice buyers who otherwise couldn't afford to buy. The problem is that while sure, 1.5% is a very low interest rate, income hasn't risen anywhere near as fast as house prices.
Here in Canada the average income is just under $55,000 a year. In Victoria most houses costs over 1 million, and condos aren't much less. Even if interest was zero percent, most people can't afford to buy property.
Part of the issue is supply vs demand and they way both get manipulated.
In the UK, we recently had a "Help to buy" initiative, where the government fronted part of the load. The inevitable consequence was that prices rose until the outgoings were still the same. The same happens with "bank of mum and dad" loans. They also mean well, but the prices yet again go up.
I've been of the vew that the UK housing market is seriously overdue a correction, but those factors have kept it just away from a stall. For how much longer, I wonder.
There were two advantages for first-time buyers to the interest rates rocketting when I bought. Foreclosures and rising interest rates meant house prices stalled for a while, though of course that also means many people lost their momes, and high inflation meant, provided you could ride the wave, the pain went away fairly quickly ... just a few years. With low interest rates, the pain is fairly constant.
New home builders also restrict the supply a bit, which also holds prices high due to unmet demand.
My paternal grandparent bought their house, with cash, for their retirement. They'd save through their lives for it. Getting into debt with a mortgage was something working people generally didn't do back then. When I was a toddler, in the early 50s, we lived in a rented house in an inner-city "slum" area with two or three other families. As did an awful lot of people then.
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful. Kawai MP6, Korg M50, Ui24R, Saffire Pro 40. AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11; Win8.1: Scarletts BIAB2022 UltraPAK, Reaper, a bunch of stuff.
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