Your idea of earlier shows on a schedule, with seats and reasonably quiet listeners, sounds like a dream. There's a popular bar here in Seattle that now puts folding chairs in for shows with older artists/audience, and I really appreciate it.
Also we should never act sheepish about being older, never self-dismiss or apologize for being old and having opinions, never say "[opinion] but then, I'm old" -- let's not self-dismiss in order to preclude others from being dismissive. It is surprisingly hard to break those habits, at least for me.
Well, *that* hit me where I live... I rather abandoned the music industry in 1995 in order to commit to providing a traditional full-time day-job income for the household with my first wife, and despite my music 'career' never having had a better grossing year than $6000 (which included one of my groups opening for Foghat *and* Meat Loaf), I still frequently nurse the fantasy of a 'comeback'. Looking at the industry on both the micro- and macro-levels though, I can't help but think that, at age 62, the rock/pop marketplace might not have any really viable options (le sigh...). [Although I suppose I could find a way to wedge some gnarly guitar feedback into the folk/country, jazz and/or classical genres (/insert Pinky & the Brain pondering memeage hereaboots...)]
Your idea of earlier shows on a schedule, with seats and reasonably quiet listeners, sounds like a dream. There's a popular bar here in Seattle that now puts folding chairs in for shows with older artists/audience, and I really appreciate it.
Also we should never act sheepish about being older, never self-dismiss or apologize for being old and having opinions, never say "[opinion] but then, I'm old" -- let's not self-dismiss in order to preclude others from being dismissive. It is surprisingly hard to break those habits, at least for me.
Well, *that* hit me where I live... I rather abandoned the music industry in 1995 in order to commit to providing a traditional full-time day-job income for the household with my first wife, and despite my music 'career' never having had a better grossing year than $6000 (which included one of my groups opening for Foghat *and* Meat Loaf), I still frequently nurse the fantasy of a 'comeback'. Looking at the industry on both the micro- and macro-levels though, I can't help but think that, at age 62, the rock/pop marketplace might not have any really viable options (le sigh...). [Although I suppose I could find a way to wedge some gnarly guitar feedback into the folk/country, jazz and/or classical genres (/insert Pinky & the Brain pondering memeage hereaboots...)]