Palmer and Viglione might be budding rock stars, but they're still pretty broke. They have to pay their road crew three to four times what they pay themselves Â'' which is a modest $1,500 a month. Remember, this a band that has toured with Nine Inch Nails.
"In order to go on that tour, we had to lose money," Palmer says. "Just because we're up on a giant stage, playing in front of 5,000 people, doesn't mean any money in our pocket."
Later, Palmer expresses shock that music is a business. In a primer on rock economics for bands with their heads up their asses, she expresses dismay that the Dolls make next to no money on their album sales, have to give a cut of merch revenue with venues, and that it gets expensive to pay a full crew, a soundman, and touring in a cushy bus.
"I haven't been writing. I've been promoting and e-mailing and phone calling," she says. "I haven't felt like an artist; I've felt like a businessman. I made that deliberate choice Â'' looking at my computer and looking at the piano and saying, 'I'm going to e-mail.'"
Hate to break it to ya, Amanda. To make money in music you either have to sell yourself to fans and promoters, or sell out.ÂÂ What's it gonna be?
What are you talking about? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, that maybe you just read the interview transcript, but I listened to that same interview, and they, in no way come off like you would like them to...Makes for an easier blog if they were completely naive about the business aspect of music and were just whining about being broke, huh...Unfortunately for you, that wasn't the case. They were just explaining how it is to be one of the smaller bands out there. Dispelling myths such as headlining for a more successful band like NIN, brings you a lot of cash....A little too quick to trash an artist, aren't we?