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Musicians Complain They Are Being Priced Out of Seattle

Thursday, 10 May 2018, 15:15 BFH Uncategorized 21

The percentage of musicians to population in Seattle probably rivals that of any city in the country. This article exposes “the crisis” of wanting to be a musician and wanting to do it in one of the most expensive cities.

They sleep on mattresses in hallways, have multiple roommates, all to cling to the city they can’t afford.

Well, you can’t always get what you want. I think some failed musician in Seattle coined that phrase.

They should go on Funemployment.

I took a listen to the people profiled in the article.

Jus Moni – Sings horrendously out of key

Tacocat – Derivative but pretty good. Bass player is too uninventive.

Guayabi – If I never hear this again it will be too soon. I’m sure the city has dozens of this particular talent.

Silver Torches – It’s a shame, because this guy is a real talent, and then ruins it with gratuitous cursing out of nowhere.

ht/ js

21 Comments on Musicians Complain They Are Being Priced Out of Seattle

  15. Tacocat: Isn’t that the latest feline road kill item at Chipotle ?
    In concert with BFH, besides them and the last guy, I wouldn’t even call the others musicians.
    The videos did give me an additional reason to never want to go to Seattle.

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  16. Rathaus — If you want to live out in the country, east of the Cascades has some nice places. Pretty conservative, too. I think there has been talk of splitting the state in two with a conservative eastern state and a loony western state.

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  17. Music’s a brutal industry. Serious accomplished classical musicians from top schools can’t make a living…or even find work. Only so many teaching slots, only so many seats in a paid civic orchestra (and you’d make better money at the DMV).
    Too bad. Live music was among the first skilled jobs made obsolete by technology of recording music.
    No sympathy for garage band wannabes. But for serious musicians who devote years of study, yeah, it’s a shame.

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  18. I played many times in Seattle and the Puget Sound area for years. Although we were experts at our craft our band did not consider ourselves “artists”. We didn’t do drugs, didn’t drink on the job, and always presented ourselves in a professional manner. We wore tuxedos and catered to the rich, playing conventions and high paying one-nighters. We were smart at marketing and worked with a couple of agents. There was not a tune we did that everybody hadn’t heard and because of this we got paid for one night what most bands were paid in a week. We also had a hot babe as our lead singer (more marketing). It’s the “artists” (those with pipe dreams of making it big playing their own music) that starve. PS at JD: I’ve known the talented Jay Mabin since he was a 12-year-old kid blowin’ the harp at Court C Coffee House in Tacoma.

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