When do you think you're too old to "make it"?

[Magic Trix]

Do you think there is a certain age where you are too old to "make it" in music. And I mean the alternative/indie scene mostly.

[garageband]

..............No.

[fortyseven]

I personally dont believe that age has anything to do with anything. If your music is what people want to hear it wont matter whether you're 15, 50 or 500!

[dealio432]

i HOPE YOU ALL ARE CORRECTO. i HOPE THAT MY MUSIC IS GOOD ENUFF, IF I CAN FINISH SOMETHING. iM SHOOTING FOR ONE AT THIS POINT. MAYBE A COLLAB CAAN SPEED THINGS UP.

[garageband]

Finish lots of stuff, even if if's not perfect. Shoot for six. They will get progressively better.
Watch that Cap Lock key...people will think you are shouting or computer illiterate.

[lumpy]

"Making it" in the alternative / indie scene requires strong convictions and original ideas more than anything. The indie crowd is certainly more open to a 40 year old bald dude dressed like Ronald McDonald wailing away on an oboe in front of a drum machine while shouting anti-corporate slogans.

All of four or five people will lay down their hard earned bread to witness that.

I think that most indie / alt people who have "made it" are the ones who worked hard at their craft, realized that everybody would rather listen to Matchbox 20 and watch re-runs of Eight is Enough, got smart and started working behind the scenes in positions that are guaranteed X number of dollars (soundboard, rigging, lighting, producing et al) and are now gainfully employed by Brooks and Dunn.

There has never been a punk record that sold a million copies.

Lump

[dealio432]

Originally Posted by garageband

Finish lots of stuff, even if if's not perfect. Shoot for six. They will get progressively better.
Watch that Cap Lock key...people will think you are shouting or computer illiterate.

I'm that guy for sure. But if not for music, poetry I may never have had a chance or even seen reason to learn how to function on computer.

[Chad_Rushing]

If you're too old to try, then you're too old. That is dictated by you and you alone.

"Dookie" by Green Day is considered punk (not by most punk aficionados, true, but nevertheless...) and went Diamond. "Kerplunk" which was indie-produced has sold over 4 million worldwide. Insomniac and Nimrod both went double-platinum.

[bradzoot]

Originally Posted by Magic Trix

Do you think there is a certain age where you are too old to "make it" in music. And I mean the alternative/indie scene mostly.

No I don't, but there may come a time when you're too old to chase it.
For example take 'Seasick steve'. He was what you might call 'discovered' and he's ancient. Not too old to do it tho'.
Rock on, whatever age you are.

[dealio432]

Originally Posted by Chad_Rushing

If you're too old to try, then you're too old. That is dictated by you and you alone.

"Dookie" by Green Day is considered punk (not by most punk aficionados, true, but nevertheless...) and went Diamond. "Kerplunk" which was indie-produced has sold over 4 million worldwide. Insomniac and Nimrod both went double-platinum.

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