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Originally Posted by Michael Zick  I asked the question because I want to mix and produce, and without a good talent pool to work with it might be hard to make a name for yourself.
I'm a newbie in this game...even after 15 years of playing music and recording...I'm just now starting to make a living at it. I wanted to know if this is still the place to be. I think it is, just wanted to see what's going on in the industry.  |
I can't think of a place with a deeper talent pool than L.A.
Just looking over the rosters of film-scoring musicians that I keep, I can see dozens of folks with decades of experience making incredible music on the 1st or 2nd take, 6 hours a day. Thousands of huge film scores under each one of their belts.
USC, The Colburn School, UCLA, Cal Arts, and tons of other colleges are full of an international pool of world-class, dead-serious classical, studio, rock and jazz musicians.
Musicians Institute, and similar schools, keep sending out rockin' grads every quarter.
There are one-hit-wonder has-beens with great chops from the '80s and '90s playing in bar bands every day.
Communities of immigrants from all over the world come here, bringing their instruments, songs, language, and customs with them. I recorded an all-Hmong group, that has now settled in Long Beach, a few years ago for a film score. Only one teenager spoke any English, but the music they made from those exotic home-made instruments was incredible.
And older, more experienced people from all over the world tend to gravitate here to L.A. to try make their mark in the biz.
If you can't find what you need here, you ain't lookin' very hard.
Greg
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