When other resposibilities crowd the music

JonnyEQ · Post by **JonnyEQ** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:50 pm

Im getting to the stage where i cant get to my studio anymore because there are more important things to deal with. Family, Work...etc. Does anyone else have this problem or do you just forget about your family and have lots of sickies from work to produce.

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:34 pm

unfortunately the great sacrifice has to be sleep

sleep is great and I dearly love it

but women and children are determined to make it impossible

this is why so many musicians end up on drugs

so they can live without sleep

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:36 pm

i changed my life and work over 15 years ago from being a photographer to being a fulltime dJ / producer, now club co-owner to not having this problem anymore.

since then i am happy and fullfilled.

ScholarlyGent · Post by **ScholarlyGent** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:52 pm

law school and a wive.

ScholarlyGent · Post by **ScholarlyGent** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:00 pm

SubFunk wrote:i changed my life and work over 15 years ago from being a photographer to being a fulltime dJ / producer, now club co-owner to not having this problem anymore.

since then i am happy and fullfilled.

Funny thing. I started out 11 years ago just DJing and producing for the love of it and then became a DJ store/club owner several years later and quickly lost all my creative juices and love for the music when it became a business. Now that I'm out of the music business in terms of it being my livelyhood (I'm now in law school) making music is sooo much more fulfilling, my creativity is back, and the stuff I'm making is a lot better. I guess sometimes you have to go backwards before you can go forward. Even with law school and a wife (which take up a hell of a lot of time and energy) I am enjoying the music more now than ever.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:01 pm

At the moment:

Sunshine

Golf

Kayaking

School/homework <--- web development / programming

a girl who wants to do shit all the time

2 animals that require a serious amount of time

but having said all that - I still find some time to work on beats, mix mp3's and warp tracks

I experiment with free synths and try to come up with new sound effects with my already owned stuff

A just made friends with a guy from DC who's a keyboard player in a go-go band so we're going to collab on some stuff this month as well as a on going project with a local hip-hop nerdcore act

but don't get me wrong techno is were it's at

oh and I watch a lot of Law and Order

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:08 pm

ScholarlyGent wrote:
SubFunk wrote:i changed my life and work over 15 years ago from being a photographer to being a fulltime dJ / producer, now club co-owner to not having this problem anymore.

since then i am happy and fullfilled.
Funny thing. I started out 11 years ago just DJing and producing for the love of it and then became a DJ store/club owner several years later and quickly lost all my creative juices and love for the music when it became a business. Now that I'm out of the music business in terms of it being my livelyhood (I'm now in law school) making music is sooo much more fulfilling, my creativity is back, and the stuff I'm making is a lot better. I guess sometimes you have to go backwards before you can go forward. Even with law school and a wife (which take up a hell of a lot of time and energy) I am enjoying the music more now than ever.

i can partly speak from the same 'pattern' only that this is the reason that i always did several different things regarding music inbetween apart from 'just' dj-ing and producing, live engineering, studio work for others [also more engineering, which is a rather technical opposed to creative process] now doing the club and also planning a label, all those activities are keeping me 'far enough' away from not loosing my creativity. still music is all around.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:14 pm

ScholarlyGent wrote:law school and a wive.

what's a wive?

I actually finished one of my best albums in law school, ( http://www.nebulae.com/music/wwe.html ) but balancing the wife (at the time, living-in-sin GF), and law school was really hard.

Not much has changed now, except that she's the wive (I think I like this term), and law school is displaced with a law practice and a 5-year-old. Ultimately, it's making time for music, and for me, that's cutting out TV or a couple of nights a week, cutting out sleep. Not too many corners to cut, I'm afraid...after all, time is the most important resource for all of us...

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:15 pm

Same problem here mate.

I wish i could live from music, but it wont stop me from using every minute i can doing it....