hardcore burns.

im a masscom student.
i get involve in the media, wheter i like or not. i organizes gigs as a hobby.
I am dating a drummer in a hardcore band. I grew up in school with friends that are crazy about music, paying for jamming sessions with their last penny.
im a concert-goer myself, ready to pay hundreds just to get a backstage pass.
I make new friends who are also in bands. From a band who just started its first gig to an established ones. I heard a lot of stories, and some, I even experience it myself.

a few post before, i condemed indie bands. which soem parts are true. How some of them think that they are major rockstar, demanding hundreds just for a song or two when they are just a nobody. They dont do it for music, but for fame, and that is just wrong.

Now, i get to experienced a hardcore band who is big headed. Yes, now that they are kinda well known, there goes the ego.

Yes, they say that organizers who use the pay to play system, or even asking them to help to sell tickets are money sucking bussinessman.

Well, dont you remember how your band's name get to be this well known? You guys once played with this system too.

Okay, maybe if a band have to pay to get on stage seems insulting. seems like they dont have the music to deserve to be centerstage, but hey, what about helping the organizers to just sell tickets?

sometimes, you have to think in the organizer's point of view. The money we had is not to be enjoyed. Its to cover up the cost of the event.The event where YOUR BAND perform and get new fans everyday.

By using this pay to play system, or helping to sell tickets, we are giving a chance to those new bands out there to perform.

Seriously, do you think anyone would just go ahead and let just some random band perform? of course not. Once these bands perform on a pay to play basis, they get to show the world what they've got; that's it, if they are good. and then they can spread their wings form there. If they have talent, then im sure many others will come chasing after and maybe even throwing money their way.

These p2p system is just a jump start for new bands, like you guys, a few years back.

so please, dont be conceited, remember what and who had brought your band's name to this level.

Keep it in mind that not all organizers out there are aiming for the money, some of them do it for their own passion in music.

if all musicians keep on having an attitude like this, be in powerpop, hardcore, dangdut, emo, or whatever it is out there, the music industry will die.

remember that attitude kills good talent :)