Originally posted by Martin Spaans
The difference between commercial or not depends on all the relations you have, it's not allways the best music that is a success. Getting succesfull is very hard work.
I like to play music and don't like anyone say how I should make or perform it top get "succesfull"

I think that too many people get wrapped up in the idea of what they're supposed to do as a musicain, where they forget to ask themselves what it is that they wan't to do. Its a great idea to be able to write and record music relying on our instincts for the rest of our lives (and get payed for it), but it doesn't always work that way, a lot of the best musicians were forced to give in to the public in order to make a healthy living. But what maters is whether or you lose your integrity in the process, where the music no longer motivates you, where its just the demands of the industry. Of course for every musician whos just starting out, they have to compromise to get to that point where they can gain all of the freedom the world. But what it all comes down to is whether or not they will seize the opportinity once freedom is offered, or if they will just continue traveling down the safe road.

With Nirvana's record In Utero, this is a great example of a band who took the bull by the horns and recorded the music that they felt most comfortable with, instead of recording another catchy dittie that the majority of fans would eat up with a spoon. They ended up recording a mature rock record that best represented their personality, and what they were feeling at the time, I'm not quite sure if most people were ready for it, but its something they will never forget. Sometimes its more important to make history instead of selling millions of records.

Radiohead is another good example from todays rock scene who refuses to conform to whats considered to be acceptable..

-Joseph