Questions for bass players from San Antonio and Austin?

[Autbra]

I'm a Nashville guy that has grown a little tired of playing pop country. Thinking about relocating your way. Any advice? What's the scene like over there?

[Munjibunga]

Hope you like pop country.

[Munjibunga]

But seriously, folks, on any given weekend night there are something like 250 venues with live music in Austin. It's everything from jazz to rock to country. There must be 50 venues just on 6th Street alone.

[iamthebassman]

If you have no problem dealing with clubs that go out of business leaving you to find out your gig is cancelled when you pull up to the door with your gear and see the Closed sign, "soundmen" who don't know or care to know how to mix a live band, police hassling you and making you move your car while you're trying to load in your gear, playing at midnight on a Tuesday with the audience consisting of one bored bartender, city officials using the "Live Music Capital of the World" phrase several times a day only to turn around and put in ordinaces that seriously hamper live music performance, the local "transients" waiting for you to carry a load of gear into the club and then grabbing one of you guitars and disappearing down the alley, cops closing down the street while you're playing your show so that when its time for you to load up your gear at the end of the night you can't drive the van within a mile of the club, frat boys trying to pick a fight with you, avoiding the human waste in the alley, the club's PA consisting of a Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, one mic, and two ancient Peavey cabs, TABC shutting down the show, the cops shutting down the show because of the imfamously vague "noise ordinance", then you'll LOVE it in Austin.

[Autbra]

That sounds not to far from about every city I've played in. I just tell myself it makes for good stories!

[Pacman]

San Antonio's gigging scene sucks. Yeah, I said it. Avoid like the plague.

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by iamthebassman

If you have no problem dealing with clubs that go out of business leaving you to find out your gig is cancelled when you pull up to the door with your gear and see the Closed sign, "soundmen" who don't know or care to know how to mix a live band, police hassling you and making you move your car while you're trying to load in your gear, playing at midnight on a Tuesday with the audience consisting of one bored bartender, city officials using the "Live Music Capital of the World" phrase several times a day only to turn around and put in ordinaces that seriously hamper live music performance, the local "transients" waiting for you to carry a load of gear into the club and then grabbing one of you guitars and disappearing down the alley, cops closing down the street while you're playing your show so that when its time for you to load up your gear at the end of the night you can't drive the van within a mile of the club, frat boys trying to pick a fight with you, avoiding the human waste in the alley, the club's PA consisting of a Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, one mic, and two ancient Peavey cabs, TABC shutting down the show, the cops shutting down the show because of the imfamously vague "noise ordinance", then you'll LOVE it in Austin.

Sounds like you just don't have any sense of adventure.

[ZonGuy]

Hey, I hear a good gig in Austin pays $100.

So if you have 4 band members, that's $25 a piece.

[iamthebassman]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

Sounds like you just don't have any sense of adventure.

Sounds like you just don't have any sense.