Quote Originally Posted by Sam_Horam View Post
I don't agree with this...

Loads of the best tracks have been written by "amateurs". In fact it's only through writing great tracks as an "amateur" that you get to be a "professional". Think back to the originators of house/techno. They started this from nothing, writing in their spare time, building studios with their money etc. It's just so happened that the whole thing blew up and they were able to sell enough records to make a living.

When it comes down to it you can only be a full time artist if your record sales/gigs are paying the bills. But does this mean that you can only write good music if you're getting paid for it? Of course it doesn't....

We paid out of our own pockets for mastering on some of these tracks and we paid out of our pockets to do the cds...

You become a professional when you get to a point where you can afford to quit your job because you're making enough money from your music, it's not like you suddenly decide "I'm a professional now"...

I think if you have money as a consideration when it comes to music then you've got a problem...
i'm not saying the amatuer people can't produce good tracks, but an industry needs money to survive. it will always need pro's at the top pushing the boundaries and if there's no money how do they get paid. i'm trying to look at the bigger picture here.


also no need for the personal digs saying i've got a problem. this is an interesting conversation between people with radically different views, on a matter that does effect all of us involved in releasing music.