Spin Doctors’ Chris Barron – HuffPost 8.8.11

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Chris Barron: First and foremost, play music and be a real musician, practice. Learn to sing on pitch, learn to tune your guitar. Learn to be a real player, there’s no substitute for real musicianship. If you’re a songwriter, read poetry, dig deep, work hard and you will be rewarded. There’s never been a magic bullet, a hand doesn’t come out of the sky and hand you a magic contract. Even the people who have some magic post on Facebook and it’s gone viral. Before they did that, they probably did a lot of other work to get to that point. The whole thing of an overnight success, it’s a myth for the most part. You could wait around for it, but it’s like waiting around to get struck by lightning. Sometimes, it can be as destructive as being struck by lightning. What you really want to do is to create a life where you’re making music to live and you’re living to make music and you’re going to be a lot happier.