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What is your definition of "making it" in the music industry? (Started by Itsuka on the Bands, Fans & Industry site)

If you feel you've already "made it", what made you feel that way?
If you feel you haven't "made it", what will make you feel you've made it?
Or do you care about "making it" at all?

I'm curious because our dreams and desires are endless:

You might have supportive fans but you probably want more.
You might have a record deal, but you may be wanting to be discovered by an even bigger label.
You might play gigs regularly, but you may be desperate to play at bigger venues.
You might have completed a local circuit but you may be dreaming of launching into a national tour, then Europe, then international.

At which point is your "made it" point?

I'm a hobby musician but professionally involved in the film industry. Honestly I'm quite content so long as we stay creative and earn enough money to keep us going, but obviously it's nice if one of our films received recognition at one of the big festivals such as BAFTA or even Academy Award. I would probably regard this as we've "made it" in the film industry.

I'm very much interested to know your thoughts as musicians...

Itsuka

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Making It....

When I first heard my lyrics come out of a truly gifted and talented singer and watched an audience transfixed...I thought I had made it...didn't last long...that's the nature of 'making it'...it doesn't last...'making it' is the cocaine of creative psychology...tasty for a moment then leaves you with a craving for more...

Good to see people using the site to talk rather than punting for work...not to condemn punting...talk is good.

Gray Dourman
www.magichelix.com

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I have a long way to go before I will think I have made it. I'm probably at my happiest here and now. Today, my band's album was featured on Radio Caroline on a live show. The DJ bigged us up real large and played the title track
of the album, then he talked about what we were like and gave a little bio etc. and read out our upcoming gigs, gave out web details before saying he would play his favorite number from the album in a couple more hours time. He played the most surprising choice, not what I expected before rounding it off with a word to say that he would contact me over the weekend with regard to helping us find 'that' label which I had alluded to us not having in my early correspondence with him. You'd think that would be pretty cool wouldn't you? Yeah, me too. I mean, imagine hearing your band on the wireless for the firtst time with somebody raving about how good it is etc. Trouble was during it all my missus was bending my ear because I hadn't made the fucking kids beds while she was out! The row escalated because I was tense over it being my big day on the wireless and I had been loooking forward to it for a week since setting it up following the contact I'd had from the DJ in reply to a punted email. He loves the album. He plays it. She rants at me. I go into one. Neither wins. I lose out. To make matters worse he says on air that he is going to play a track in a couple of hours. I carry on with said chores (I'm supposed to be working at home at my desk) and during the bit where I am grumpily trying to placate my missus from giving me any more of her gyp before I can hear what the DJ has to say for the second time - larging up the gigs and so forth - I find that I have missed it. And the song that he played was the song that I wrote in memory of my old man. I can't play that song live without choking. To have missed it on the wireless for the first time due to a fuckin' row with 'er indoor was a killer. Bollocks! I'll never make it. Anyway you want to look at it.


Gray Dourman said:
Making It....

When I first heard my lyrics come out of a truly gifted and talented singer and watched an audience transfixed...I thought I had made it...didn't last long...that's the nature of 'making it'...it doesn't last...'making it' is the cocaine of creative psychology...tasty for a moment then leaves you with a craving for more...

Good to see people using the site to talk rather than punting for work...not to condemn punting...talk is good.

Gray Dourman
www.magichelix.com

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When I first heard John Peel play a track off my band's album back in 1985 takes a bit of a beating. If anybody's interested, the band was called Sudden Afternoon, the album was called Dancing Shadows and the track was called Acid Rain and the track is currently available as a download from Cherry Red on a new compliation called The Things We Never Did, HINT, HINT!!

With my current band? I wrote the lyrics to our song 'In '77', the first time we played it live (at Powers in Kilburn High Road) people I didn't know were dancing to it and joining in with the chorus, that did it for me thank you!!

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My old , and now sort of ,re formed band Clark Hutchinson has had it's albums re released over and over . There's been two " Definitive collections " In the last couple of years alone".
I see now that we are " Underground Heroes " in the latest one . Our first album is credited with starting a whole musical genre .
[ So now I'm wearing sunglasses all the time . Talking with a crap American accent ! LOL !! ]
. But we don't get no money . None of 'em pay us . So I'd say making it is just making lots of money .
However I just play for the love of it . Make more videos . Maybe sell a new album sometime .
Making it is paying all the bills and having a lot left over .

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Hi Mick,

it'd be great to have a listen. Can you send us a link to somewhere we could hear the music.

Cheers, T.

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Hiya Tony
Clark Hutchinson can be found at .
www.myspace.com/clarkhutchinson.
The two latest compilations are done by Cherry Records and Sunbeam . Repetoir in Germany , Arkahama and some others have put them out as well .
Also " Free to Be Stoned "and a few other track are out on Decca Compilations .
We've done some videos for youtube recently .www.youtube.com/clarkhutchinson

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Hey all, I'm new here! This topic is dear to me so just gonna jump in if that's cool. I have several levels of thought about 'making it'. Sometimes I am pretty hard-nosed (no I haven't made it; making it means earning good money out of music), other times I get all zen about it. I have a pretty popular post about that here at my blog.

Looking forward to hanging out here!

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Whoops - seems I muffed up the link (damn technomonology). Try this.

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