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There's a saying that goes "Success is when preparation and opportunity meet". The more I read, the more I realise that though we all strive to be successful, as artists - bands - engineers - songwriters - producers and no matter how hard we try and no matter how thoroughly we strive for excellence, there's one word that says it all about if it's gonna "happen" for us or are we to be content with a "day job". SerendipityA couple of modest examples:
(Sometimes you just gotta get a touch jealous about SERENDIPITY when it happens to others...but having said that...who would like to be Curt Cobain..??.. ) Again, it's not that Jet-silverchair-The Beatles were the best bands of their time, with the best songs, it was just -- Serendipity
Why? Serendipity.The market was ready, willing and able. Even in my own modest little studio, where we can record up to 5 bands per week, one of those bands was The Vines, their first CD, went Number 5 worldwide. At the time of them doing their demo with my engineer Glenn Santry, they were just another band recording in the studio. But as Shakespeare said "Nothing comes of nothing". We're all playing at that one chance in a million, success hits a lot of folk, and you've got to be in it to win it. It might as well be you!!! There are heaps of scientific discoveries that happened by accident while someone was trying to do something else.... batteries, the microwave oven, penicillin. So, often songwriters become producers, artists become managers and unfortunately, stars become truckdrivers. So the message here is keeping doing what you're doing, and do it the best you can, 'cos you don't know where it will lead you - maybe a No. 1 in the US or just a nice little job in your home town. But without being too New-Age about it... Be happy where the road leads you.
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