Military Musician

[Ibby]

I would tell him what every mother, as far as I know, tells their kids, and what I also council fellow future musicians:

That's all fine and dandy, but go to school, get good grades, go to college... get in bands afterschool and in school bands and stuff like that, but make school temorary priority. Then what I would do is get a job at a bar or restaurant or something that has live music, and see if I can convince the owner to let me play every so often, to get myself noticed.

But if the military music thing works the same as it did thirty years ago.. I may have to look into that...