[linux-audio-user] Linux-Music and making a living...

[R Parker]

--- Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan at starband.net> wrote:

> tim hall wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 08 September 2005 07:08, R Parker
> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>>Furthermore, artists must eat,
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Nonesense, our musts only include sex and drugs.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >AND Rock'n'Roll, if you _don't_ mind!
> >  
> >
> Gawd....didnt this topic go to hell in a handbasket
> quickly!  
> Hmmm...come to think of it, much like many one hit
> wonder rock bands!
> 
> "muddying the waters" comes to mind??   Oh well,
> having had my share of 
> all of the above and being reduced to nothing more
> than a weekend 
> warrior at best anymore, what do I know or care...I
> just worked 36 hrs 
> straight on my day / night gig for "the man"...but I
> can buy lots more 
> gitfiddles, amps and linux boxes!!! and pay the
> mortgage, and utilites 
> and car payments and insurance and kids clothes and
> food and water n 
> taxes and......crap!!!   Where's the bloody drugs n
> groopies!!!!

Apparently you travel the path of righteousness. That
is righteous based on my chosen interpretation of the
standards expressed in this statement--"I have yet to
meet a musician worth listening to who's in it for the
money."

If we ever meet I can assume your music is worthy of a
listen. You on the other hand will not be able to make
any such assumptions about my music because I have yet
to declare my motivations for being a song writer.

Do you ever ponder how your music and life might
change if you were fortunate or as it were unfortunate
enough to become a heretic?

I don't know about anyone else but it's concievable,
according to my twisted interpretation, that I once
again am enroute to hell and possibly with a fist full
of songs that aren't worthy of a listen. I'd take up
the fiddle and hope to jam with Charlie Daniels and
the Devil but they probably wouldn't have me. I'm to
beligerent/independent to sell my soul for any cause.

I wonder where it ends. Will I jam with Willie Nelson,
Johnny Cash, Russell Hanaghan, Tom Hall, will I eat or
be hungry, will I be ostrasized, lonely and extra warm
for infinity.

Having excersized my right of freedom, by not
declaring my motivations, I encourage anyone to eye me
for the stake. I'm ready to face that consequence. And
I promise not to back out at the last minute.

I imagine that the stated standard I'm twisting to H,
E, Double Tooth Picks and back might endorse making a
living from worthy art. No doubt a consequence of
embracing art before money. Shoot me for being selfish
and having fun before acknowleding an otherwise
perfectly tenable perspective. I'm the sorriest SOB
you know. With my pyscho babble rant running out of
gas I've got just about enough content to produce the
lyrics for another song. 

Albeit a bit late, for some, I excersize better
judgement, cease the OT ranting and dismount the
soapbox.

ON TOPIC
I've made my living as a producer and engineer who
relies upon Ardour and JAMin exclusively for about
three years. I cut my first album produced with Ardour
in 2002ish. I agreed to do that album at a cut rate
with the understanding that it would be produced with
the unstable beta stage application Ardour.

In 2002 anything but a rate reduction would have been
abusive. I noticed someone mentioned competing with
ProTools by cutting rates. Our business circumstances
are all different but I haven't offered a cut rate
because of Ardour since that first job and never will
again. There's plenty of variables in that
statement--my clients rely on me and couldn't care
less than they do about the application. So I'm only
addressing reliability. I admit that during my Linux
stage I've lost one job because I don't run ProTools.
Meanwhile, last nite, we scheduled an album production
with an artist that purchased and produced his demo
using a Digi 002. He wants to work in a real studio
with ProTools. He's now excited about working in a
real studio with Ardour and JAMin.

I don't do alot of soft synth or sequencing work on
commercial jobs but definitively can state based on
personal experience that Linux Audio tools are
perfectly reliable in my small commercial studio. I
qualify that claim but only because a switch from any
given platform to another is always non-trivial. 

I'm gonna have to shutup for about two weeks to make
up for this outbreak,

ron

> R~
> 



	
		
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