How much money you got in your very firts gig?

[FunkyMan]

Well, I'm From Latin America, but it was something like 50$ i was 17 and couldn't believe it that was a lot of money for me at that time doing what I like?? .. i remember My girlfriend and I went to eat, had a few beers, and I left over half the money the next day.

[FunkyMan]

"First" Sorry...

[dubclashdub]

We were 15 and I think we got 40 bucks at a local billiards bar thing, I bought candy, pretty awesome.

[Shakin-Slim]

About $20 or something.

[pacojas]

i got 2 cans of Budweiser beer and $10.00 for gas!!! good times.

[Oren Hudson]

First gig in 1964 for an industrial company's summer social. We got $15 for 5 of us to split We were thrilled.

[lobey]

$10 worth of beer from the bar. I burned that up pretty quick drinking Guinness.

[MuzikMan]

Our band of four got the $6 cover at the door and a pizza! I must add that there were at least 20 people at the club who skipped the cover at the door somehow but we didn't care, we were thrilled to play in front of people..........good times!

[kosmicwizard]

3 drinks and $25 to divide between the 5 band members, gonna need to play a lot more gigs to pay for my gear. Cheers.

[adam on bass]

I owed $25.

[sandmangeck]

How do you owe 25?

[Stan Laurel]

I think we each got $10. But that was in 1964 and we thought it was great! Fun!

[tdoody]

1964 we got $60 for 5 of us. in 2 yrs we worked our way up to $5000/night.
hit records helped

[ryognbass]

I got lucky, and my first gig (that actually paid) earned me $200, and I was 16 then so I was floored . Of course I'm only 17 now and lucky enough to have built a network from that show alone to provide many paying gigs nowadays.

[KsToaDangr]

first paid gig, we got $40 to split between the 4 members, but ended up putting it in a van for gas to pay for us to get to our second paid gig. we split $100 for that one.

[Graham Monette]

$50 and change. It was supposed to go into this "Equipment band fund". Um no its MINE... first and last gig with that loser band.

[rtslinger]

Early 70's small bar around the block from my house Jerry Rooster Tail Lounge no place for a 13 year old kid owner let us play upstairs downstairs was off limits to minors topless bar dancing everyone who came out to see us had to go up the backstairs $25 split between 4 of us $6.25 per.

[Phalex]

1st paying bar gig? It was 1989 or 1990, and we got paid $100.00 a night per man and it was a 2 night gig. I was so geeked up to have $200.00 of free money that I went out and bought myself a watch. A pretty sweet watch at that. My reasoning was that I'd have that watch for a long time (Still do but it puked last summer) and I wanted something that I could hold onto longer than a sack or a bunch of beer.

These days I average about $100.00 a night per man 2 nights per weekend, and I buy a bunch of beer instead of anything concrete.....

[deshi00]

First gig my band had paid us $300 and an unlimited bar tab, awesome night, horrilbe idea for the bar to give 4 college students free alcohol all night though, they probably lost money on us that night even with the decent crowd we brought.

[s_mcsleazy]

my bus fair "home"

bloody annoying though because my house was 75 miles away from where i played my 1st gig

plus i only got £2.50 bus fair