ing sounding - there’s a market
for that too - but going back to
The Beatles, they sang happy
songs and sad experiences.
There’s a pretty wide field of art-
ists who do that and I try to be
one of them.”
Even though Daly appears to
be getting into a nice musical
groove with the long-awaited al-
bum finally available and a new
one in the works, he’s still very
much playing music for fun more
thought the guys in the band
had it made and wouldn’t have
to work another day in their life;
but, in reality, one of the guys
had to sell his car to pay for sev-
eral months rent on his apart-
ment just to ensure it was still
there when he got back.
“I learned to take nothing for
granted,” said Daly. “I learned
to have different expectations
of what it would be like to be
a ‘successful musician’ - basi-
“I learned to take nothing for granted”
than anything. He’s older, wiser,
and if he learned anything dur-
ing his years at The Aquarian, it
was to be realistic.
Daly recalls members of The
Aquarian staff who were part of
a band that signed a major re-
cord deal and about to go on
the road, opening for one of
the biggest artists at the time.
He says outsiders would have
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cally what it took at that time to
crack the industry at all; how to
be heard by people, much less
have people come out to see
you play. The whole thing has
changed with the advent of digi-
tal, now it’s even harder and the
expectations become different.
You think, ‘Hey, I can get my mu-
sic on iTunes and Amazon’ with-
out thinking about how thou-
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