All you get from the clubs are politics and headaches. Magicians need to return to the days of true artistic endeavor. Today's technology may make the larger than life effects possible and believable, but, the more we rely on electronics, gyros, computers and the like, the more we lose track of why we perform in the first place. Anyone can watch the Masked Magician and learn how a trick is done, but that does not make one a magician. Anyone can go to a magic store and buy out their inventory, but that doesn't make them a magician.
Magic comes from within a true magician.
I love Lance Burton and his magic. He is, in my opinion, one of the few true magicians left, but he too is falling prey to the money trap. You can tell that, for him, the joy of doing magic has taken a back seat to making the next special more spectacular than the last. You watch him at his theatre in Vegas and you can see the joy that he still has. It is not, however, in the larger than life effects.