The reasons I’m not in the music business anymore:
1994 was the beginning of the end. A few short months after winning the Academy of Country Music New Group of the Year award, the Gibson/Miller Band was done. Though I did work for several more years in the music business, my career never recovered.
Because I hadn’t been the “a-team session” drummer before the band and the band had never been a top selling act, I was left in an ambiguous middle ground. I thought that I’d quickly find work, but half the people in Nashville had forgotten about me while I was touring and the other half didn’t know the band had broken up. The result? Not much work.
I was in my late 30’s and at a crossroads. Down one path was building/rebuilding a music career and down the other was a BIG question mark. It took over two years of wrestling with myself and God until I realized it was time to move on. Though I had succeeded at working as a musician, I had ultimately failed to build a music business career.
