In my opinion its no one’s business how much money a person has, weather they are an artist or not. What really matters is the content of their work. We all know there are bands/artists out there who have come from really low income circumstances to create brilliant stuff. Then again, there are plenty from the same background whose output is pure crap. The same logic is true when applied to financially well off artists.

This brings to mind the incident or beef involving Blag Dahlia and Josh Homme from a few years back. After Nick Oliveri was fired from QOTSA, Dahlia’s band Dwarves released a song wherein Dahlia called QOTSA “Queens of the Trustfund”.

I don’t know who has how much money between these two bands/artists, or whose parents set up bank rolls for whom, but I do know which I like better. Take a guess.

Dissing someone for being the recipient of a trustfund is like dissing someone for have blue eyes or being short. Its not their fault. And only a fool would fail to use such a gift, or to cast it away because of some (whack) moral principle that says good art can only come through suffering.

I, like the author, work a regular job and also am in a band. As the principle songwriter, I have to find time (usually very late at night) to be creative. I have no problem with this, as I love the process and I have no shortage of cool ideas. If I had a ton of cash, I would almost certainly do music full time. I don’t, but I do what I have to do to scratch my itch.

I’m glad whenever I know someone is doing what they really love, in whatever context and on whatever schedule or whoever’s dime. Envy is just a form of laziness in my opinion.

Let’s also remember that record contracts are a form of patronage that no one has mentioned, or that (at least in the old days) record companies endowed bands with lavish expense funds.

Anyway that’s my two cents.

Then there’s this:

“Don’t get me wrong; this is not a class issue here.”

I’m confused.

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