What’s the difference between a musician and a crazed hobo yelling wildly on a street corner? The musician has the good sense to record what he’s doing. Also, probably amount of teeth and number of days since their last shower, though if you’ve ever been in a band with some really dedicated music guys, you know that the latter isn’t always true.
The crazy thing, aside from the hobo, is that even when you’re flat broke, you can still afford some pretty awesome microphones to record or broadcast the avant garde stylings of your folk-techno-clogdance fusion band. Take this one, for instance. Dirt cheap, highly sensitive, cool looking, and comes with all of the stuff you need to rock out. Or, if you dig through your sofa cushions and find another couple bucks, you can go wireless. Think of how nice it will be to bust some Van Halen-style jumping splits during a high note without worrying about your mic cord snagging your band mate’s Jamaican steel drum set and knocking down everything in your garage.
In this modern day era of music studios in a laptop and easy collaboration between musicians regardless of geographic location, you really have no excuse not to tap into that inner Beethoven (or that inner Johnny Rotten, whichever) and let your creativity out into the world. Or, you could go back to yelling on the street corner about the government agencies that used space lasers to steal your pants. Your call.
