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Got a question that I've been pondering over. I was watching Jay Leno tonight and Hillary Duff was the music artist (yeah, I'm not into that kind of music)..The band is average, not hard music at all, with musicians I've never seen before. Every once in a while you'll get a band where you see a musician and you'll recognize him or her from another band or something. You can tell this is a "pre-fab" back up band.
Just out of curiosity, how do these musicians get into the circuit to do these gigs? Is it the standard "you have to be in the right city" thing? Do producers that put these bands together shop at certain colleges to find people? Is it who you know? Is it just luck?
A lot of these bands are live bands to are put together to reproduce music from a CD that has been created electronically. I've heard many people say "You have to move to NYC to get gigs like this". But, the fact of the matter is, 80% of the bass players I know that have moved to NYC (or any other big city) to play, play either jazz, blues, fusion, or any other genre other than pop and I find it hard to believe that producers would be trying to find musicians at these gigs (unless I'm totally wrong in this assumption). I've never heard of anyone moving to NYC or LA telling themselves "I'm moving to a big city to play rap or pop".
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