Get Up and Go

12 / Get Up and Go

Taking a chance and making something happen on your own has proved to be more important and rewarding for me than taking the “credible” path as a musician, because the “credible” path to success is basically a fantasy, based on notoriety and authority rather than action and conviction. I think it has a lot to do with how I originally got started as a DIY musician. When I was nineteen, I was in a band that had done extensive traveling around the Midwest, and I booked a month-long (25 shows with 4 days off) West Coast tour for myself and one other band. We had only “released” a handful of CDR home recording demos for our