At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.
I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.
I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
I made a living being a background singer for years.
It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.
My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.
I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.