Yeah that would be pretty sweet, I'd love to make my living just playing music. That's hard though, my good friend is in a band that travels all over and plays twice as many shows as we do, at much bigger venues. All those guys still have side jobs and are just managing to make ends meet. You just don't get paid much to play music. I think it's the hardest working job for the least amount of money, when you factor in practice, take down, travel, set up, take down, go back home, set up again. Lots of manual labor. It's really about it being the most fun thing you could possibly be doing... without that it would be a raw deal, but it's the best thing there is.
I feel very lucky because I get a nice salary that pays for everything and allows me to save and live comfortably, we'd have to be making a lot of money for me to match that, more than most bands can make. Fortunately I can work regardless so I'll probably stick with it unless we get really big. Unlikely, much more likely we'll be regionally popular and play tons of shows and make decent money which for me means I make really good money in total. It kinda freaks me out sometimes how everything fell into place, almost like I knew without knowing what I needed to do, from before I went to college even. Followed my intuition. I can't complain man, I have a lot of shit I've had to deal with over the past few years, and I still do, but I love my life, I feel fulfilled and happy.
Just got done playing a hometown show, and on Saturday we're going about 4 hours away to West Virginia. The set tonight was good, one of the best we've played.