[A gentle, even slightly embarrassed chuckle, but pleased.]
I hope the sound quality on some of my earlier works isn't too choppy: some of them were recorded in less than ideal studios. There have been some rumblings back in the North East, how I've sacrificed the East Coast for the West Coast, how I've sacrificed art for a regular paycheck. And then there was that one buffoon with the article in some religious rag, who couldn't even spell my name right and sees my work as some male siren call to perdition: I'd say I'd made my bones. Once you've managed to tick off the rigidly religious, you've more or less made it as an entertainer and not just as an artist, in my understanding.
Admittedly, I got a little tired of couch-surfing and renting cramped recording spaces with archaic equipment: I wanted the chance to spread my wings a bit, to work in a genuinely professional environment. To be taken somewhat seriously, I suppose. But, of course, one gets the hecklers who don't see it that way.
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I hope the sound quality on some of my earlier works isn't too choppy: some of them were recorded in less than ideal studios. There have been some rumblings back in the North East, how I've sacrificed the East Coast for the West Coast, how I've sacrificed art for a regular paycheck. And then there was that one buffoon with the article in some religious rag, who couldn't even spell my name right and sees my work as some male siren call to perdition: I'd say I'd made my bones. Once you've managed to tick off the rigidly religious, you've more or less made it as an entertainer and not just as an artist, in my understanding.
Admittedly, I got a little tired of couch-surfing and renting cramped recording spaces with archaic equipment: I wanted the chance to spread my wings a bit, to work in a genuinely professional environment. To be taken somewhat seriously, I suppose. But, of course, one gets the hecklers who don't see it that way.