RE: Songwriting and Collaboration: Part 1 - Being in a Band vs Being a Solo Musician
Snoop dogg : Money is the Power, Power is The money ....
:) you know this rule, there are no other way which is not related to money, even if the band or artist had no money, he must find a sponsor with huge money... and that's it :)
thanks for the vlog, in my opinion, if someone can do his songs alone he can do them alone, if he/she want to be in a band and work with a team and love to be a group instead of being alone then story is different, because we're all know that Even MJ was singing alone while he was on stage and sometimes he bring some musicians to play behind him, and also there are some musicians who sing alone and they are ok. but all of these are depends on the person, and he choose it and I won't say that someone most be a solo artist or in a band, it's all depend on him/her :)
peace my friend :)
snoop is definitely speaking the truth when money is power! But In my experience anyway I have managed to find musicians to play for barter or even for free because we're all ultimately in it for the music. So it's not impossible.
And I hope I didn't sound disparaging on people who choose to go at it alone, because that was not my intention. But even MJ didn't do everything alone - He had a huge team behind him doing things! I highgly recommend watching his last documentary and you'll see what I mean. He was the director and the main creative force, yes, but he's always had a band behind him (Jackson 5 at the earliest!)
Exactly, I've seen MJ's "This is it concert" and I saw that he was asking musicians to play each part, he was playing some notes with his vocal and asking the electric guitar player to play it, it's all working and all are true, but you know without money, no band or solo artist can move on. we are all love to do our music and share it around with people, but even that sharing ( need advertisement which needs money) so we can't do it free. we can only be free and make no money from it only when we have a side job or maybe if we can live in the nature :))). I mean if we don't need a house or paying taxes or buying food and paying for energy ...
I've managed to get quite far with bartering - I agree completely with you, nothing is "Free" (nor should it be really!), but you can offset quite a bit of hard costs by collaborating with others and each doing something that goes towards the work.
MJ started out with the Jackson 5 - which was a band! So he had a solid foundation in working with others and collaborating with his brothers and father to create a music empire. He didn't do it alone at first :)