March 29, 2011

What is Your Biggest Breakthrough ?



We all know about putting in 10,000 hours of practice. We definitely all know about slogging it out in a van cross country, eating Subway & Taco Bell, sleeping on couches, borrowing money from your supportive significant other for gas to get back home. Madonna says she used to go dumpster diving in NYC just so she could eat. Many bands live in their rehearsal space, play shows to five people and run up a bar tab that's more than they get paid at the end of the night. This is all collectively called 'paying your dues.' But that's not what we're interested in today.

What we want to hear about today are great stories about that biggest breakthrough. When was the day that all that 'paying your dues' actually paid off? Did you hook up with a great producer? Did your video go viral? You sold out your first show? These are the moments that make it all worthwhile and keep up pushing even harder for that next breakthrough.

Tell us your stories in the comments, we can't wait to hear.

The Jango Jugglers