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Recording or Preformance Musician?

TnyjMuzic	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 12:28 PM Which of you here are recording musicians (ones who mainly record music in his/her studio) or Preformance Musicians (ones who preform their music live in froint of an audience at clubs or open mike nights) Just a curious question is why i ask.
shadowself	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 12:38 PM Used to be more of a performing musician, then a recording musician. Now I am a hybrid. However, all my performing is done live online, I hardly ever play outside of my house.
add45	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 12:41 PM Well, I just play infront of small groups of people in school most of the time (other than playing in the bedroom) I've only just started recording more. I've performed a few times in the past though, good times.
moam	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 12:49 PM Definitely recording I usually release about 2-3 CD's every year. I have performed once though, but I just get so nervous before hand...scares the crap outa me
pog	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 1:12 PM More performing than recording, but we do record rehearsals a fair bit.
celtaidd	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 1:14 PM Recording only. Used to play live donkeys years ago (majority of DMusic weren't even born then
pog	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 1:18 PM ...I've never heard a live donkey being played before
evansorchid	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 2:32 PM Did the starving artist thing for about 3 years as a performing bassist and vocalist. I guess you could say that I'm inbetween commitments as I hone my skills in digital audio production.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 3:09 PM The two don't have to be mutually exclusive ... I am now more of a recording musician but have played guitars, keys and bass in various groups in the past. Combination of having psoriatic arthritis (which makes it unpredictable when I am able to play) and being a miserable no mates b*stard in a foreign land has kind of halted my live work. Working musicians who play live always get my respect. People like Gene Hilbert who earn their living through music/gigs and still find time to record at home/studio especially.
celtaidd	Date: April 24, 2007 @ 9:15 PM Don Key? No never met him; used to know a Joe King once though
vladb	Date: April 25, 2007 @ 9:10 AM I experiment with recordings every week, seeing what i can do, but hardly any of it is worth doing anything with. I can amass six+ hours of music a week and most of it just sits there. I do enjoy playing live but it's always hard to find a crowd for ambient noise.
HenriRoger	Date: April 25, 2007 @ 11:41 AM Apple . I teach music . Playing live music is a great way to improve our playing
HenriRoger	Date: April 25, 2007 @ 11:46 AM I play in jazz clubs of the french riviera with 3 bands . Before that I have been a sideman pianist,keyboardist for several french singers I used to record in studios before the pc time ,solo stuff or bands . Then I also went Atari, Windows, Apple .
blacklieder	Date: April 25, 2007 @ 11:51 AM Both. I play with a live band, I do the "Bill Martin" thing (that is, I play piano/voice gigs doing standards, Billy Joel and John Legend or Alicia Keys tunes), and I record either at home with Live and GarageBand, or at the studio with ProTools. I like live recording as well.
imemine	Date: April 25, 2007 @ 5:24 PM I played semi-professionally for 10 years in a former life but as evansorchid said, I too got tired of of eating peanut butter and bolobny sandwiches and living out of the back of a wall to wall carpeted hippy van (The van was called the 'Mystery Machine" BTW) We occationally had those Blues Brothers kind of bar tabs too! I gave it up and got a job and as Sinai would say----Sold Out! Went another 10 years without even picking up an instrument and now, when I have the time I play with myself!
evansorchid	Date: April 26, 2007 @ 9:54 AM I thought you liked peanut butter and bologna sandwiches, Ime?

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