Took me a long time to realize this.
But…
1. You’re gonna sell more tickets to shows if you play less frequently. local bands will play hundreds of shows a year then wonder why no one pulls up to them. Making yourself scarce works.
2. Songs are digital assets and will continue to pay you back for the rest of your life. They’re like little robots just making you passive income at all hours of the day. I calculated it, and considering a payback period of 5 years, i make $300/hr. More money = more marketing opportunities. Live shows just don’t do that when you consider practicing and travel.
3. I have a band that’s never played a live show before and i have 100k streams on a song. Getting my music in front of 100k people via shows would take 333 sold out shows with 300 people in attendance…
I could keep going on but I’ll stop there
Tame Impala fans, what happens if you mix an InnerSpeaker era guitar riff with a Deadbeat era drum tone? This.
Introducing Deadbeat drums.
1200+ multi-sampled drum sounds, made to capture every drum tone on Deadbeat.
While most of the album is very electronic (which i love btw) the drums on Loser still have that early tame tone so i thought I’d show them here.
