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Ahonui
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 Posted - 06/17/2011 : 6:45:49 PM
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Originally posted by sirduke58
I've just recently started getting paid to perform music. It's nice and the pats on the back are pretty cool too. Can't say I'd be compelled to return the money being thrown at me but it will never be the motivation that drives me. Love of my music is first & foremost. I don't want to take the "play" out of "playing music". If you make it about money then it becomes work & no matter if it's a job you love, it's still WORK There's enough people out there chasing the almighty music dollar to serve the purpose.In the meantime I'll be just "Playing"
That part really resonates with me, Duke - I have only been playing for a few years, but I do get paid from time to time now. It's nice, but if it had to be my "job," it would lose too much of the "joy." |
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rendesvous1840
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 06/18/2011 : 5:02:51 PM
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Were it not for the internet, Hawaiian music in Cleveland would consist of Tiny Bubbles played 2 or 3 times a year on one, or maybe two, radio stations. This is due to the lack of economic motivation. A few years ago, we were overjoyed to learn that The Makaha Sons were planning a tour with stops in both Cleveland, Ohio, and Pittsburgh,Pa.We mailed in for tickets to the Cleveland show, and I silently contemplated an overnight to Pittsburgh as well. Both shows were cancelled, due to lack of advance ticket sales. The Cleveland show sold about 50, if I remember correctly. A lack of economic motivation is the limiting factor here. It keeps Hawaiian music off the radio, out of the live venues, and there is precious little we can do to change that. Radio presents the music that draws listeners. Venues book the acts that draw patrons. These are facts. As the listeners tastes moved away from swing/pop,towards ever more Avant-garde rock, the local radio stations changed their play lists to present what was most popular. Like it? I haven't listened to local radio since internet station "Rats Won't Stay Where There's Music" disappeared, about 4 years ago. It's been a dozen or more years since I quit listening to local commercial radio. No, I don't like it. But I have to deal with it. The local Borders has cut their CD inventory down to the bare bones. The economic motivation to carry a large inventory is gone, what with downloads.
Hawaiian music will survive, the same way all traditional musics survive: in the back yards and barber shop jam sessions. When the kids hear it, they will say things like "Mom, they're playing your kinda music! Dad, that sounds like what you like to hear." And it survives that way. Don't search for it on the radio, it ain't played from their heart. Only profit plays there.
Unko Paul
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"A master banjo player isn't the person who can pick the most notes.It's the person who can touch the most hearts." Patrick Costello |
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Ahonui
USA
2368 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2011 : 5:25:27 PM
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Originally posted by rendesvous1840
Don't search for it on the radio, it ain't played from their heart. Only profit plays there.
Correction, if you please: Don't search for it on COMMERCIAL radio; remember your community stations instead (and we're on the intrawebs as well). |
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rendesvous1840
Ha`aha`a
USA
1055 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2011 : 08:31:12 AM
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Yes, commercial radio is what I meant. It's all out there on various private internet stations, but even local broadcast radio in Cleveland has little other than the most vulgar styles of Rap and the most vicious forms of Metal and Punk.
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"A master banjo player isn't the person who can pick the most notes.It's the person who can touch the most hearts." Patrick Costello |
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 06/19/2011 : 10:00:25 AM
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| Once again, Uncle Keaka must say - Commercial radio is about selling a sponsor's product, not about art. Unfortunately, art can only (or almost only) be heard or seen on public or community radio. btw,the lack of anything Hawaiian in Cleceland was how I got to meet Wanda and Paul at Wolftrap a couple of years ago. They drove down to DC and provided a great tailgater luau, and I got to met them in person. So fine! |
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
USA
1511 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2011 : 10:01:41 AM
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| I meant to say be seen and heard on community or public media. PBS is usually very good. |
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sm80808
Lokahi
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Posted - 06/19/2011 : 10:28:13 AM
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| I still haven't found a good source for Hawaiian music online. The closest I have found is 940AM from Oahu. The local NPR in Hawaii has a Hawaiian music show on Sundays, and there are some shows on the UH radio station KTUH... but they rarely play anything that I like to listen to. |
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chunky monkey
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 06/19/2011 : 11:43:22 AM
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What if there were no economic motivation in music
