No matter how we, as human beings, we live our lives tragedy happens. And the average musician is more dramatic than the crazy cat lady down the block has bags of litter used on his porch. In each round, the average wannabe rockstar has a crazy squeeze, a former crazier, a harem of would-be lovers, and a gaggle of insane threats. Then there is the drama band, manager of fiction, drama club, theater fan, arts drama, and let& 39;s not even start on the drama online potential. Before you know it, your band is " Desperate Housewives " look like 60 Minutes.
Certainly, no one ever said that the music would be a safe, secure and solid profession to enter. Any industry that pays buckets of money for young, beautiful to people jumping around and showing off is bound to inspire zaniness to some degree or another. The creative process and often brings a certain amount of fuel tortured genius that the seeds of fiction as a miracle grow into weeds. In addition, there are more than twenty million musicians from around the world who are clamoring for perhaps a record one thousand competing bids as in " survivor " obstacles courses run for a single few chicken wing. If there was a country built on theater, a musician would be his queen.
However as far as the music biz is filled with glitz and glamour and the things that are made in tabloid headlines, it is also a business. And if there is one thing we do not want in the middle of your company, is a drama. There is a reason why doctors do not fight most patients die about their golf scores, pilots did not announce a plane full of passengers that they were dating a stewardess, and the chef is not to say that he forgot the wash hands before , he cooked his tenure of four stars meal drama does not belong to company. Whether you aspire to get a record deal or finding a cure for cancer, leave your drama at home!
The following are some tips that will help you navigate the gossip and erratic turbulence of life in the music industry, without becoming a slave of his own tragedy:
1.) Not Leave You On The Internet Suck — All Since the invention of the Internet, there has been more drama in cyberspace than in a convention for bipolar drag queens. It is easy to gossip and backbite while you can remain anonymous, so the Internet become a breeding ground for anyone and everyone with an agenda, an out of control jealousy problem, an axe to grind, or an incredible ego. Angered, disturbed, small-minded people with inferiority complex as the size of Shamu will use the Internet to poke its band with a cyber stick. As hard as it may be, you must learn to let everything roll off his back. While they are posting about you, it means they are listening. Removing their posts inflammatory, or respond with similar negativity, feeds the tragedy until his entire message board is the problem-maker on your web site, not your music. And if a potential or a magazine reviewer interested label rep is examining with interest your page just to find more information about their struggle with some psycho internet than on the band? He not worth risking a loss of opportunity to engage in drama.
2.) Drama Not Belong In Your Gigs — When you are at a show, your goal is to make music, involve the public, sell CDs, and win the club more so that you can play it again and again. People make room in their schedules, pay for gas, and fork in cash for a cover charge and bar priced drinks, only to hear you play your music for them. They want to be entertained, to escape the pressures of his real life and escape to the safety and emotion of his music and lyrics. What they do not need is more dramatic in its gigs after receiving their tasks of co-workers, his strange neighbors, and intimidate their children in school " combined. Whatever problems you are having in your personal and professional life, to keep them away from their fans and their industry contacts, or they begin to remember your shows more to the drama than for the music.
3.) Your manager is not His therapy — Although a manager of the professional duties make them almost as a band of the father, the mother does not cry every time the drummer called him a name or his girlfriend decides she wants To play the field. There is too much industry musical drama that your manager has to deal with every day, to add to his troubles by piling a heap of his personal woes on top of their already overloaded shoulders. If a club owner stiffs you at the door, tell your manager. If another band recorded one of his songs without permission, tell your manager. If your wife compulsively flashes her breasts in his shows, it sends a therapist, but let your manager out of it.
4.) Crazymakers Take Off Your Mailing List — A lot of damage control can be done only through the removal of his post as nuts that appear and bring their own boatload of drama. If you know your ex never got over you, she was outside meds and she likes to show up and start swinging at each girl she thinks is recovering your eye why would you invite him to your concerts ? Comb your address book with a big, black sharpie pen and ink the threats, crazies, attention-getters, and exaggerated drunkards that will transform each and every one of their gigs in a three-ring circus of the drama that is required to Ringmaster of the stage during his set.
Once you remove the tragedy of his musical career, you will see that your gigs go more smoothly, your site is a place for the fans more positive to hang on the cyber space, and the industry is less reticent about getting back what you are doing. It may seem silly, but much drama can often be a sign of warning that something is very wrong with a band and you can discover that industry types will become around his gun shy band if they are worried that their reputation as drama queen will be more problems than it is worth. Working in the music business is strong enough. Do not give anyone any reason not to work with you. Be smart. Leave your drama at home and show the industry that his music is what& 39;s most important to you and your band.