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Ultimately, though, there's a lot more headroom in a YouTube career as a musician than there is as a musician on its own.
£5, though, would be fine. In fact I just bought a couple of CDs where I paid that (slightly more actually).
Kids don't have anything to play them on, a large amount of computers and laptops don't even have CD drives, my mates courtesy car doesn't even have a CD player in it and that'll probably end up being a thing going forward.
CDs aren't a solution to musician earnings for the future, digital could play a part but it's not looking likely that recordings will have much value going forward, beyond allowing hardcore fans to pay a higher price via choice. The low price high volume sales approach won't work if most of the audience ends up streaming instead
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Problen is we are in an industry full of people wanting to play and happy to do so for little reward - it's a common statement that the pay is for lugging gear and the awkward hours and the playing is for free - I have two gigs this week - festival playing whitesnake and van halen will be a lot of fun - I'll get about £80 and free camping lol. Saturday is at a wedding playing Brown eyed girl, uptown funk etc and I'll get nearer £200 - the money doesn't follow the music I like most - crikey if it was my songs and blues I'd probably be paying them - make your choice and get on with it I'd say.
in the modern world he is just another player.
he has virtually no spark,flash or presence for me.
JoBo got there by hard work and good management and marketing and also by keeping his foot in the rock market.
look at other good US players like derek truck warren haynes etc they carved their careers through years in the Allmans and solo outings in the downtime. Unless you have the spark or USP the world is full of good guitarists.
needs to write some good tunes and get good management and be prepared to change.
'Building a studio' means a lot of different things to different people... im willing to bet there isnt a vintage Neve console sat in there. A 'studio' Can just be laptop and monitors.
Youtube is overloaded with plenty of people who are very good at things but who can't make much money from it.
Josh also sounds like he thinks he Should make money from his playing and that he Deserves to, and that life is being Unfair. If he thinks like that then he's a twat.
And kill his dog.
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It does seem to raise some interesting questions, and I wonder what current young guitarists going through elite training courses are expecting as a working career, or how they are being guided as regards future careers and financial expectations?
There will always be work there, as a sideman, in a function band or maybe on a cruise ship - but is this what these guys are dreaming of or expecting? I'm not sure that a new Steve Vai or JoBo is viable now, even with marketing behind them.
Now that they've gone the way of the dodo and everyone can record near-album-quality music at home, all that's happened is we've got exponentially more acts vying for less money in the market than there was back then. Not only that, but the signal:noise ratio has decreased exponentially because allowing people to publish music with no gatekeepers means there's no quality control.
Virtuosos have absolutely no place in a market like that.