NO! I will not share a hotel room with my stinky unwashed plebian hired backup band, we all are TRAINED PRO MUSICIANS who deserve king sized beds and martinis named after our terrible songs. Who do you think we are REX VIPER?? NO! I will drive and fly around the US when it's the most expensive its ever been only to cancel shows over a covid test nobody forced you to take. MUSIC IS A JOB, IT'S A BUSINESS, if you think I'm going to sleep in a van for my passions you are sadly mistaken bud, you are the capitalist swine for not giving me more money, now listen to this nice little doodaa in 14:62 time signature I just stole.
His all-white jazz-fusion quartet/trio spent over thirteen thousand dollars before they had even played their fourth show. I say hey, butthole, if you wanna complain about not having enough money then how about you sleep in the van instead of staying in overpriced hotels when you're on a single-person multi-day road-trip? Better yet, how about you stay put instead of driving from LA to Portland and back for literally no reason at all? And if you're really itching for some extra cash then why don't you sell one of the half-dozen electric basses behind you?
Now touring is very expensive, it's ecologically dubious, it might not be a good idea to even do and even if you are able bodied it is very physically demanding. But in my experience of sharing music, and sharing in moments with people, I would argue that live music has value, it is work, and those who do it deserve to do it with dignity like anybody who works.
Remember last year when everybody got mad that Amazon drivers had to pee in bottles?
Seems like we should allow bands to also have that basic level of self-respect and dignity too. Just a thought
I'd like to see this ugly mayo spend a few weeks working construction with a bunch of hicks that keep coming in drunk before he complains about how "physically demanding" playing the bass guitar is. I mean seriously, look at this fricking guy, what the heck does he know about physical activity?
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Honestly the music is pretty darn good but what a whiny b-word
Whether or not it's okay for musicians to be berated for an airbnb, nobody said getting into this shit was easy or fun. It's like if I get a job at starbucks and complain that I serve coffee for minimum wage. I got precisely what I signed up for.
You play music for a living, you're not curing cancer. An AI computer can make music as good as you. I also like how they paid the hired musicians dog shit to tour with them
They spent 13k to play one show. Maybe they should have taken a business class or two
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i agree with most of this but AI is not very good at music yet
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Computers aren't producers of human culture, they're part of it, whether or not they're "good at music" is besides the point. Even if Bach fugues we fed into an A.I were used to make compositions as "beautiful" as the original, it still would be culturally and marketably irrelevant except for the novelty of saying "a computer did this" (it didn't: humans still came up with all the raw material, took thousands of years to cultivate an aesthetic/moral framework that considers bach's music good, and told the computer what discernible elements in the music are relevant at all for it to reproduce). Computers can't predict new developments in human consciousness, you need to be a person for that, A.I will never make music. That would be like saying if i wrote a composition and flipped it on the mirror to hear what it sounds like, the mirror wrote it, when it was just a tool for my rationally motivated action.
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