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Originally Posted by opendoor
No, just an adult with significant experience in the music industry.
Just based on my own personal experience, probably the most technically proficient guitar player I know is a metalhead who doesn't even really play publicly anymore. And probably the best drummer I know plays in a crappy cover band. They both have pretty suspect taste in music and can't write good songs, so they never really went anywhere. Or my cousin who is a phenomenal classical musician who teaches high school band.
Whereas I know a bunch of people who are lesser musicians technically but who have been able to carve out successful multi-decade music careers playing original music. They're not household names or anything, but within their genres (mostly indie and folk music) they've been relatively successful (play to 2-3K people a night around the world, 1M+ monthly listeners on Spotify, etc.).
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The best we know is filled with a lot of bias. I'm just as guilty of that thinking as the next guy. Whereas I know a bunch of sounds like you "know of" artists, that in your biased opinion are lesser skilled, that are carving out careers. But lets assume both are true.
So what?
By this logic, the best filmmakers don't make films and the reason cgi infested budget hole movies suck is because they're in the hands of lesser weights.
It doesn't matter if your buddy is better than Steve Vai if he's too pusillanimous (or just doesn't care) to show it. And just because someone's show might not present as super technically demanding, you better believe that mofo is a monster. Nobody would be backing a horse with the money needed to have a career like you described any other way. Monster at their instrument, monster writer, monster charismatic draw, a combination, whatever. They're a monster.
90% of music has nothing to do with operating instruments. But its by far the most important 10%.
Movies feel real when problems are solved and obstacles overcome using as much of the humanities as possible: acting, sets, costumes, make up, music, etc etc etc and in the name of the all-mighty dollar its been assimilated by the box. The artform as it is now is just stale and boring.