Narrow-shouldered music Youtuber whines that he only made a narrow profit on his tour that consisted of sax soloing over video game sound effects

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?

This DIY ethos metastasizes quickly into anti-labor rhetoric and relentlessly questioning the necessity of fair working conditions and compensation. The argument being made effectively is that living expenses are shameful and the idea of paying for labor... is downright offensive.

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

>You see people think that playing music isn't a job... it's a job.

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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