Posts Tagged ‘#musicbusiness’

A new home for the ‘toys’

Posted: October 24, 2025 in live Sound Reinforcement, Midi Series, My Tunes, technology
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I know I talk about music and great artists I have worked and played with over the decades. During all that time I had my share of more-than full time jobs. I started with plastics and the injecting molding industry. I went from being a ‘hopper boy’ to a plant manager. Later I got into sales – service – and managing with a few other trades thrown in there.

I retired from work a bout 4 years ago. Now it is time I retired from the music business as well….

I have gathered all my recording gear. Packed up my vintage keyboards and guitars and have the drums all torn down and headed toward shipping boxes. I will keep my songwriting instruments and gear I can’t part with yet. I will list the rest of the gear for sale on Sweetwater’s Exchange platform.

If you know a musician give them the link below. They might thank you for it!

https://www.sweetwater.com/used/storefront/midimike

I will thank you now. lol

I have had the link up for one day and I have sold two items already. I will be adding more for a few weeks.

On the Sweetwater Exchange site, just search for the MIDIMike store!

So now I leave you with a musical joke. You can fill in the blank, but the joke works the same!

Q: What do you call a Drummer (guitar player, singer______) that broke up with his girlfriend?

A: Homeless!

MIDIMike

Another Look Back at the Music Business

Posted: February 5, 2020 in MUSIC, Poetry
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It’s a hand grenade of high frequencies
Placed right between your eyes.
Easy to guess now where it came from;
Years of rock and roll caught you by surprise.

So much harder just to sit and talk these days
In a thin blue funk of purple haze.
Forcing the rhyme within tired rhythms
Simple technologies each a new craze.

You’re in it. You’re on it.
But can’t admit that you want it.
You buy it. You waste it.
Much more than a phase. It’s the New Craze.

It used to take talent and a lot of hours
People loved you for who you are.
Now it’s the beautiful, the extreme
Making a grab for your last dollar.

You need a law degree, and some Marketing
Even web design or sound engineer.
Craft miraculous songs but it won’t matter
Without looks and cash there is no career.

You’re in it. You’re on it.
But can’t admit that you want it.
You buy it. You waste it.
It’s just the New Craze.