Would you trade fame/endorsements to improve your talent?

[bobbyd]

I would recommend college not only for the experience, but the contacts one makes at good school.

However, what will make you a commercially successful musician is the ability to write music people want to hear. The world is full of great guitar players (just check youtube) that will never make a living playing. Whatever you decide, put some thought towards creating music vs super chops.

i would do school. no matter how good the band is now, 99.9% chance they will fall apart in a year or two due to any number of reasons...

the contacts you make at music school may get you gigs for LIFE.....Berklee alums are light a tight fraternity, and help each other....

you have to follow your heart, so you don't up saying "what if"......

of course,this advice is coming from a guy who refused to go audition with a band named "tabitha's secret" that got signed to RCA.....i heard their demo tape, and thought they were pretty accessible, sort of rock/pop music lite, and had great potential.....but did not need a guitarist like me, with mad skills.....


that band ended up changing their name to Matchbox 20, and i am the asshole who blew Rob Thomas off and never returned his calls