WAITING FOR WHAT? - Brittlestar’s Weekly Newsletter - Issue #60
This past week Mark Critch from Son Of A Critch/This Hour Has 22 Minutes and I chatted about how we were both at the White House at the same time but only one of us defaced the building with a marker. Listen to this week’s ReallyGreatPodcast.com
WAITING FOR WHAT?
Any day now somebody or something would say I was ready.
I never actually told myself that bluntly or spoke it out loud, but in the back of my mind I was always waiting for someone to say I was ready before I could start.
In 2004 I got tired of waiting.
I bought an Acer desktop from Zellers for $600, I got some software , I threw out a longshot call for help from a famous musician, and I made an album in my basement.
By December 2004 I had finished 8 songs, sent them off to a company in California that placed music in TV shows, and licensed all of them before I had even finished the cover art.
The album was cross-promoted on Amazon with another fairly new band called The Killers (I wonder how things worked out for them), I sold a decent amount of CDs independently, and then one of my songs played during a pivotal scene in an episode of MTV’s Real World Denver. That song and its placement in that scene (it was a break up scene… very sad… awesome for me) made more money from that single performance than I have made in total some years.
I made some two more albums and an ep. I played some shows in places I had previously only dreamt of playing.
The money eventually dried up and… I thought, “Maybe I’ll try making videos for social media.”
And here I am.
By no means smooth sailing the entire journey, but…
If I’d waited for someone to tell me I was ready before I started, none of my current life would exist.
I’d still be waiting.
Waiting for what?
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(pictured: Author recreates pensive slouch on album cover)