you're right, you know, about the eye rolling part.
in all honesty i see no wrong in what i do. there's several other hundred engineers and producers out there doing the exact same thing.
have you ever seen blink 182 perform live on jimmy kennel? some of the bands i work with are better than that, and blink 182 are huge.
good recordings can lead to great success, no matter how bad you suck live.
but great success can crumble if you suck live, too.
in retrospect i regret that i was thrown into the scene in which i work, because i'd much rather be doing programmed / factory / machine sounding pop songs like boys like girls, and getting the 1 percent traditionally awarded.
then i could get going on my life's todo list of things to experience... like a yacht, and some ocean, and some sun.
dont get me wrong tho, some of these bands are really passionate at what they do, and so am i. but sometimes it just doesnt fucking matter, and i've got a heat bill durin the winter that's pretty steep. so i could care less at times.
