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This is somewhat peripheral to the above discussion, but playing fringe music for art school kidz and expecting to pay rent with your checks from tiny crap venues is a bunch of bullshit. It's awfully presumptuous to expect that you can make a career out of touring around the country and playing indie schlock in this economy and cultural climate. Many do, but if you start thinking of a CAREER from the outset, there's something wrong, UNLESS you are a professional session guy/gal, a techie or member of the crew, or someone whose working in other areas of the music establishment, like the classical or jazz world. But even there, groundbreaking work usually goes unnoticed till a composer is in her 50s.
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