It's called "who" ya know & NOT what ya know. All great bands eventually get a drum roadie, guitar etc., and they almost always have ther own sound guy. Hopefully you'll get to touch enough equipment and work enough jobs to hang with the pro's in conversation once the band goes BIG, and "IF" they do, they should pull you along.
You don't pay 50 G's for a degree and then go out and mix for any band!
( Well OK, it could happen, but who needs that work ) Honestly, it's always a minor technical education that get's you the job working for a band you have to love so much that they can't live without you before they hit, and once a band hits they keep the good roadies, sond guys, guitar guy's etc.,
You need to get to work for a band that's going places.....Like that's gonna happen, Mikey, I did this before, I would be the guy at the sound booth if they hit, I swear, no "schoolie" woulda gotten my job mixing, and if "I" couldn't handle it, the one they paid would have had to either listen to me while he workde or train "ME" because "I" was there from the beginning and deserved the job, that's the way the bands I worked for were doing it. That's the way they all are just as soon as they have a sound guy that works...for "ME" I was lucky and the people told the band I worked for that they never sounded better and so I got to keep the job. Once they work without you and all the things they take for granted don't happen, they get all crazy and want you back. You should know musicians are Babies, artists, they need TLC and crew to coddle them.
Producers will always let a rising band keep people and help them get and maintain the positions needed. We knew I couldn't produce a CD or a Demo, but we also knew the tech that did, would train ME, and then I would be right there able to keep up for the live show's and additional input. You can go to school all the while, but it's WHO and NOT WHAT, and it's too bad.
If you had the money to build a studio, ( What like a Million Dollars now a days ) I wouldn't be surpirsed, "and" you could really produce well, then after you pushed a few bands through it you would build a reputaion and then get the work you seek.
Any more questions? and FWIW...it's al been done Mickey, it take a real talent to shine now. A band may be able to sell something, but it won't be unique, it's all been done one way or another.
Get into something else, and use this as a side line. As you meet these people you'll see that unless they have rich parents who don't mind, they all have a back up, and love it too. Your music or desire to be a "techie" will NOT pay the bills until they hit.
but yea.. Anyone know of anywhere with this type of stuff? and no NOT COLUMBIA!
