In the not too distant past, many young people were first lured onto the road to become musicians by the compelling motivation that if they worked hard enough, immense rewards would follow. How many guitar or drum-learning kids, growing up in the last four decades of the 20th century, were comforted by this notion? It was an idea that reassured, and took the sting out of the dispiriting trial of playing those nerve-wracking early gigs in the tiniest backrooms of pubs.
With the uphill-struggle dynamic lodged in their minds, amateur musicians secretly knew this was only the first step - the very beginning of a journey that would ultimately lead to an all too grateful major label taking note.
This idea could uplift even the grimmest situations, reinforced by many of those foundational perseverance-paying-off legends in the annals of music history, such as The Beatles’ legendary two-year gig-binge in the clubs of Hamburg.
