Ron Sobel a snapshot of reality for musicians

Ron Sobel, the new chair of the music business at McNally Smith College of music came to one of the college's classes, CaLM (Creating a Life in Music). The class consists of students who want to be musicians and performers of their various instruments. Ron basically shed light into the business world of music. He hit the nail on the head by saying that as musicians all we want to do is play music, but if that's all we actually do we will be setting ourselves up for trouble. So many artists get taken advantage of and end up losing money because they say "Oh my manager can take care of that" or "My attorney can take a look at that" when in reality you don't even know if you can trust your manager and attorney. Ron made it very clear that musicians need to know about the business they want to get into. They need to know the dirty gritty stuff that goes on behind the scenes. If not, your career is not in your own hands.

Here is the website for Ron Sobel's company North Star Media. its very fascinating. Northstarmedia