i was talking to someone the other day about the state of the music business. the main point of discussion was how record labels are dealing with the changing tides of the industry. there were a lot of subtopics brought up during our discussion, and many ideas touched on that would be possible solutions to the needs of a new market. at one point something was said that struck a chord with me. i dont remember verbatim what the person said, so i will just paraphrase it.

in most industries you do your daily job, working hard to become successful. but you dont live and die by what you do. at night you go home to your family. on the weekends you go to the movies, you go boating, you leave your job at the office and have fun. in the music business you have to live it. if you want to be more successful than your competitor, and the competition is working every waking hour, then you have to adopt that work ethic too.

in short, you basically have to give up your life to make records. at least this is the case with artists, producers, engineers and assistant engineers. it doesnt help when the music industry is taking a huge hit because record sales are down. there are plenty of solutions out there for opening up alternate revenue streams. everyone who works in the industry has an opinion of what those solutions are, but nothing seems to change. the only thing that does seem to change is that budgets shrink, and rosters get smaller. i could go on and on, griping about what is wrong with the music industry, but im just going to stop short. i woke up on the wrong side of the bed. tomorrow is a fresh start to a new workweek… i swear im gonna be positive.