[Harp-L] Re: re: how much do you get paid for a gig?

["Haka Harri" <harri.haka@xxxxxxxx>]

Chris brings back the topic of the percentage of harp players being crap musicians. I agree that 99.9 % of us players don't make big money. But we still do it out of love of the instrument and/or the music genre that we dig. You don't have to be a fancy classical music player to light up an audience. On the contrary, most people love hearing even a medium level player sitting in for a couple of blues numbers. Whatever you get paid is based on supply/demand. Personally, I am content with the responses from the audience and a couple of free beers. Of course I am not a professional musician and make my living elsewhere. But I would still not register to the 99.4 % of crap musicians on Chris' list.

Lovin' the harp

Harri


> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:37:49 +0000
> From: "Chris Michalek" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:  [Harp-L] Re: re: how much do you get paid for a gig?
> To: "Joe and Cass Leone" <leone@xxxxxxxx>, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
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> I know the level of money Robert is making may seem obscene 
> to many but I assure you it is not. While I have never made 
> money close to that I know plenty of people who have.  That 
> level of money is the "real world" of the working musician.
> 
> Robert is the best at what he does and he's earned the right 
> to make that and more. This is also the reason why I call 
> 99.4% of all harmonica players crap musicians. I know the 
> kind of money that is out there for other musicians but 99.9% 
> of us will never acheive that.  Most harmonica players are 
> simply poor musicians.  Now that you been given a glimpse of 
> what is out there, what are you gonna do about it?>