Riddle: What do your life in the music industry and your
personal life have in common? At some point, you’re going to **** up.
In order
to maintain a forward progression as a career-hopeful musician, you can’t dwell
on past mistakes, failings, etc. A mediocre (or worse) album or show early in
your career is far, far less damaging than any you might have as an established
artist and it’s just plain not worth it to let drag you down. What you have to
do is become a doctor (temporarily, don’t get your parents too excited);
separate yourself from the event, get and analytical in your diagnosis of what
went wrong and surgical in your efforts to fix it and prevent future
catastrophes.
One of the reasons is that it is too easy to fall into a
cynical/paranoid trap. When Oasis scored a major hit with their sophomore album
“(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” in 1995, it boggled lead guitarist and
primary songwriter Noel Gallagher’s mind that people didn’t also buy their
debut, “Definitely Maybe”. So much so that almost two decades later, he can be
seen still complaining about it in a documentary on their rivalry with Blur. He
says something along the lines of :
“I don’t know why, if they liked “…Morning Glory?” so much,
why didn’t they pickup ‘Definitely Maybe” while they were in the store?....It
doesn’t make any sense….was it something I did that made them want to fuck with
me? “
It’s lines of thought like that which answer the question,
“Whatever happened to that band?” This probably had something to do with her
substance abuse problem…but you wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?
The fact is that carrying around your failures with you will only lead to more
of the same failures - mostly because you’re still carrying them. When
something goes wrong or just isn’t going right, empty your pockets and move on.
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