26 - You Have to Outlive That

SLAM Summit - Surviving and Thriving in the Music Industry

James Rivera, a.k.a. Vampiro

Lyrics reference: Helstar

Quotes from the episode:

• Why do you think Jeff Loomis is one of his biggest fans?
• Management can either make you or break you. We had a bad management.
• And so for the younger bands, you know, you're pretty much going to be on your own, and you're going to deliver a record, and you're going to say, “Hey, it's a license deal!” and they're going to give you nothing. But they're going to put you out there in the world. You know what? You should take it, because that's as far as you're going to get now.
• We're still reeling from the death of Ozzy Osbourne, which I thought would never happen. It just seemed like he was gonna outlive us all.
• So think about it. If you got a flu... you've got Covid... Do you think you could sing? No, there's no way in the world what you do. It's affecting your body.
• So that's what a lot of people need to understand. Lead singers don't have it that easy, although everybody else thinks they do, but they don't.
• And you know what depression is. Yes, I've been there. I thought about jumping off a bridge. I thought about hanging myself, or whatever. But you know what at the end of the day it doesn't do you no good, man. You're gone. You have to outlive that. You have to be very confident in what you believe in. What a lot of people don't believe in is themselves. And you know what? Once you learn to love yourself, you will get over it, and it's not selfish.

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