Meanwhile back in Detroit he’d become a demolition worker and pretty much forgot about being a successful musician. Of course this was in the days prior to the internet boom and the simple access of information. After some South Africans did some research on Rodriguez they actually found out that he was alive in Detroit. This was many years after he was rumored as dead from setting himself on fire while on stage. Its pretty amazing how a story like burning on stage could ever be created completely out of fiction. Well long story short the South Africans found him through his daughter and invited him to play in an arena with thousands of cheering fans and he’s been touring to sold out concerts ever since this documentary came out.
So what’s the take away for me or any other music artist or artist in general?
Follow your Heart when you Make your Art! Then eventually this cause set in motion will return in an effect somehow somewhere. I’m not Christian, I practice Buddhism, but the Bible does have a few great parallels to Buddhism’s law of cause and effect like the planting of the seed which goes like this: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” — Galatians 6:7, The Bible . And to make this more action oriented consider Jim Rohn an American Business Philosophers interpretation: “Now, here is the secret to the ambitious sower with good seed. It said he kept on sowing. Now, here’s what he had to do to keep on sowing. He had to discipline his disappointment.”
So the grand moral? Keep planting good seeds and you will have a harvest. If you’re seed needs to be improved, then more education and a little digging deeper to pull out the gems is critical to success and having a harvest. Personally I’ve just figured out some marketing tactics and I’m getting amazing feedback for the first time from 10 years of blood sweat, tears and lots of money. With more marketing and more money behind Chad Scott Music, I feel its inevitable that it reaps a full harvest.
Lots of love to you, Chad -Feel Free To Comment Below and tell us your artist story and how it relates to Rodriguez-
Chad my hat goes off to you! You stir up awesome music! Keep up the hard work sir