Keep the Dream Alive: One Year Later w/ John Vanderslice
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The Impossibility of Making a Living as a Musician
In 2004, the standard support act was getting 250 a show. That's what you get today. The pay for opening bands is I remember when friends of mine would play these like giant shows and then be like, yeah, we got like equivalent of like $50 a person. So whoever is standing now in this kind of like field is either monomaniacal, beyond belief, or they are just simply, you know, losing 50 to $100,000 a year for the pleasure of saying that they do music.
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