Ideas for funding your move, and demo cd.

So, for me, the pro’s outweighed the cons when it came to moving to Nashville. However, I still didn’t have the money. I was living paycheck to paycheck. I read in a book by Robert Schuller once, that in order to pursue something that was impossible, write down 10 ways of achieving that dream without stopping to edit or think if any of the ideas were do-able, just write them down. He said, usually 2 or 3 of them will be pretty good ideas you could use. So I tried that to think of ways to get the money to move:

1.) sell vacuum cleaners door-to-door

2.) ask my boss for the money

3.) ask dad

4.) have a big party, charge for admission

5.) take pre-orders for cd’s, then record the cd’s and hand them out

6.) sell all my stuff

7.) cash in my 401k (didn’t have one)

8.) play the lottery

9.) pray God to send me a check

10.)skip out on my rent and slip out in the dark of night

Well, some of these may be do-able, but the one I thought would work was # 4. Have a party. I found a bar with a banquet hall close to where I worked, rented that out, and charged $15 to see my current band, Easy Does It, perform and enjoy some wine, cheese and beer. A friend from the health club I worked at made up a flyer announcing the party. We advertised it to all my friends and family, and told them what it was for, and made enough to record a 4 song cassette (1995) and have a couple of dollars left over to get started in Nashville.