Yes around the New York Tri=State area. Up until recently I played rhythm guitar with Tuff Darts [one of the original early l CBGB's bands from the 70's]
The club was totally packed and standing in front of the stage singing every lyric to these 30 year old songs was one of the opening bands [they were in their late teens at best!]
It was an amazing and powerful moment for me.

Certainly the ability to reach a worldwide audience of people who love the same things that you do is a very good thing. The reality that there is no filter to what music gets out there is not always a good thing { The selection process mostly was one of the positive concepts of the old record label model]
People have to work harder to get their music heard when there's millions of artists out there but that weeds out a certain segment of artists who are not willing to keep up.
Fans have a lot more available to them and can pick an choose just the songs they really want [which is good]

yes but not until I had a large enough fan base and income from self promotion
where I could dictate terms. Furthermore I would only need to do when I felt I was ready to reach a broader audience and couldn't do it on my own.

I started out playing in bands and recording band demos in rehearsal rooms for friends. Then I wrote, played, and co-produced my own cd's. In 2005 I started recording and producing projects in my home studio. When that got too busy, I took a partnership in a recording studio in Long Island City. My part of the studio was called Zeroville, and I stayed there until 2007 engineering for dozens of bands. During this time I worked on the projects listed below. In 2008 I moved to work in another studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at Metrosonic Studios.I was there for 18 months and decided that I need to be on my own so I move to upper manhattan where I continue to record produce and mix for a variety of artists as well as my own material.

Beatles, Stones, Who, Hendrix,Grand Funk Railroad, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Slim Harpo , Stax records, Loud Guitars,Psychedelic, Brit Pop, etc.

China town NYC, Tortola BVI, Toronto,Niagara Falls,Paris, San Francisco, Philly, Columbus Ohio

Vintage Fender, Gibson,and Teisco guitars Marshall,Fender and Gibson and harmony Amps,Echoplex,fuzz box, tons of pedals. , 1978 Allen & Heath discrete console

Happy to be here and there's a lot more good music to follow.