I’m glad I hadn’t seen it before I started gigging (I was about 22 y.o.); I imagine I was quite annoying for some people as piano was out of tune (perhaps can be called honky tonk) but back than the audience was quite supportive and even slightly drunk people were rather nice to me. Members of the stuff were also very supportive. Can’t say the same about my recent attempts, they were not that stable I also I had a feeling that I need to change something.

Playing not too loud became my priority quite soon, I held a “quiet” pedal with my left foot through the whole evening (perhaps in English it would be correct to say “whole night”, but it creates quite a different picture).

What I want to say is that maybe we should be careful about stereotyping this sort of work. After all, each occupation can be called unrewarding; but there’s no job which fits everyone.

Judging by YouTube I can say that people do want to watch and listen to all sorts of musicians playing all sorts of music. Somehow, studio recordings ate not enough.

I read somewhere about photography. One man in the industry explained that first someone tries to work as a part-time photographer for small money, then he tells everyone how little it pays. While there are pros who make quite a good living doing the same, but with different quality. Certainly, you can always find people who would say “who do we need photographers when we have iPhones?”.

The difficulty is, which, by the way, people on SynthZone helped me to realize, is that musician has to treat it as a private business and to be ready to work a lot a lot.

It also makes sense to combine gigging with other occupations, of it works out better.

The video is nice; I just realized that I totally think of the characters shown as different persons, while it’s obviously the same guy.