[bas_I_am]

Ask yourself - "Do I want to make a living making music, or do I want to make a living being the center of attention?"

You need to be honest with yourself, as 99.9999999999% of people making a living making music are not doing it being superstars, but as commercial artists or teachers.

Here's what I would do - search out videographers of all types: weddings, adverts, business training films. Get your foot in the door anyway possible. Get your mitts on their proofs and build a portfolio putting your music to their images. Operate on the premise that you look good only when they look good and your music is not the center of attention.

Ever since my sister was working the estee lauder counter at a local department store, she wanted to be a makeup artist. Heres what she did:

She started working weddings - doing the brides and bridesmaids.
She parlayed that into doing makeup for adverts produced by the local cable tv vendor for spots they sell to neighborhood businesses.
From that she started working with advertsing firms working on commercials for large regional enterpises: banks, grocery stores chains. Thats where the money really began to roll in.

Currently, she makes a very good, steady living as a makeup artist in corporate training films. At the same time, she does big studio films at least 3x a year when there is a need here in the washington DC area. Furthermore, she is a free lance makeup artist who regularly contracts with MTV. She doesn't make stupid money but she does very well (alot more than my father ever thought she would) and has met some very interesting people (Sting, Bono, Springsteen, Gorbachev, Speilberg, just to namedrop a few)

Lastly, I am probably the only guy in the world who can honestly say, with pride:
"My sister did both Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich in the same day"