Category Archives for "Advice for New Artists"
August 28, 2014
Billy Joe Shaver – HuffPost 8.28.14
Mike Ragogna: Billy Joe, what advice do you have for new artists? Billy Joe Shaver: The main thing is to make up your mind. If you’re going to do it, do it, and if you’re just going to halfway do it don’t even try. This is a very demanding thing. I stay simple, I didn’t […]
Continue reading
August 27, 2014
Kevin “Ghost” McCullough – HuffPost 8.27.14
Mike Ragogna: Traditional question…what advice do you have for new artists? Kevin “Ghost” McCullough: Stay consistent with your fans and give them something different. There is nothing wrong with putting music out once a week instead of once a year. Don’t be f**kin’ lazy and you might have fun! Haha!
Continue reading
August 27, 2014
Dry The River’s Peter Liddle – HuffPost 8.27.14
Mike Ragogna: What is your advice to new artists? Peter Liddle: We were talking about this in the van the other day, trying to dissect the various factors that allowed us to become a full time band, trying to figure out a formula. Sadly, although hard work and conviction turn the odds in your favor, […]
Continue reading
August 27, 2014
The Posies’ Ken Stringfellow & Jon Auer – HuffPost 8.27.14
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Ken Stringfellow: Wow, this is a question that is frequently asked in interviews and it’s a really tough one, because in a way what Jon and I didn’t know when we started–we’re really small-town geeks, we were just total doofuses in a way, there’s a […]
Continue reading
August 26, 2014
- in Advice for New Artists , Darryl Tookes by Mike
Darryl Tookes – HuffPost 8.26.14
Mike Ragogna: What’s your advice to new artists?Darryl Tookes: If you are an artist, you are doing something new. Something individual. It’s like a teaching physician who is a friend recently told me that he tells his students. If you don’t show up, the rest of us miss what you might have brought to class […]
Continue reading
August 26, 2014
Smokey Robinson – HuffPost 8.25.14
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Smokey Robinson: My first advice is you’ve got to really, really, really love it because it’s a very difficult, hard business, especially nowadays. It’s a very difficult, hard business to cut through and get past all the other traffic that’s in your way to become […]
Continue reading
August 26, 2014
- in Advice for New Artists , Israel Nash by Mike
Israel Nash – HuffPost 8.26.14
Mike Ragogna: What is your advice for new artists? Israel Nash: I think it’s very easy to become jaded in the music business. Many expectations may not be met, but then expectation change. I’d say the biggest piece of advice for a young artist is to realize they will need to lean on people, people […]
Continue reading
August 22, 2014
- in Advice for New Artists , Jean-Luc Ponty by Mike
Jean-Luc Ponty – HuffPost 8.22.14
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Jean-Luc Ponty: Follow your gut feelings more than advices.
Continue reading