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View Poll Results: Tell us how you feel about your New Year's Eve gig this year! | |
I've got a killer gig scheduled!
|    | 21 | 24.14% | |
Just so-so, kinda average.
|    | 18 | 20.69% | |
So bad I wish I didn't have a New Year's gig.
|    | 2 | 2.30% | |
I'm not playing in a band right now.
|    | 13 | 14.94% | |
I'm just eating carrots this New Year's Eve.
|    | 33 | 37.93% |
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12-26-2006, 02:39 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Crook Custom Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wheeling WV | | | New Year's Eve Gig?
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Tell us how you feel about your New Year's Eve gig this year!
I'll start............mine's kinda average, but only about a 3 minute drive from home, and an easy load in.
Last edited by mimaz : 12-26-2006 at 02:42 PM.
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12-26-2006, 03:03 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Crook Custom Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wheeling WV | | | By the way, if you vote, tell us about your gig! Inquiring minds want to know! |
12-26-2006, 03:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Edmonton Canada | | If by "Killer Gig" you mean familiar venue, 200+ people, lots of friends,open bar tab, play Fri, Sat and New Years Eve for 2 grand of which half is mine because I play in a duo?... then yes I have a Killer Gig. 
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Last edited by Ricky Daion : 12-26-2006 at 03:30 PM.
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12-26-2006, 03:21 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Crook Custom Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wheeling WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricky Daion  If by "Killer Gig" you mean familiar venue, 200+ people, lots of friends,open bar tab, play Fri, Sat and New Years Eve for 2 grand of which half is mine because I play in a duo then yes I have a Killer Gig. | That sounds fantastic....congratulations!
Really, killer gig, or anything else for the purpose of this poll, means how do YOU view your gig........I guess what I mean is what's killer to one person might be poop to another.....but just tell us how it compares to your other gigs the rest of the year. |
12-26-2006, 03:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fort Atkinson, WI | | | Not doing one this year, as our lead singer and drummer bailed on us to form their own project about two months ago, and we haven't found replacements yet. Had an offer to open for another established local band this year, but had to turn it down, obviously.
Not really feeling bad about it...I made about $500 from our NYE gig last year, but it was a decent drive, and our drummer ended up quitting after the show (long, idiotic, story that doesn't need repeating). Kind of looking forward to having the night off and just chilling, really.
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12-26-2006, 04:15 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Jim Dunlop strings | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Heerlen, Netherlands | | | I'm eating carrots this year.. bandmembers don't want to play on newyears eve, christmas day etc etc... need to find some decent musicians.. : ( |
12-26-2006, 04:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | This is the first year since I can't remember when I don't have a NYE gig.
I can not begin to state how much I'm looking forward to not gigging.
A bar full of people that only go out once a year, drink too much, get stupid, act stupid, drive stupid...
Bars are places for experienced professional drinkers not amatures. |
12-26-2006, 09:29 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Crook Custom Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wheeling WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bikertrash82 This is the first year since I can't remember when I don't have a NYE gig.
I can not begin to state how much I'm looking forward to not gigging. | I enjoyed a year off about 5 years ago, came back to feel fresh and ready to play. |
12-26-2006, 09:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tampa, Fl GO BUCS! | | Killer gig: 3 day festival in Florida over the weekend. 
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12-26-2006, 11:10 PM
| | | | Mine is on the 6th so its not a new years eve but a new years show. It is also the first with my new band a 2 hour 2 set show. |
12-27-2006, 06:34 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | I'm playing a great venue, and the money is pretty darn good too. I don't think I'll be having any cocktails at all on New Years Eve, there will be lots of drunks out, and I don't want to be mistaken for one. |
12-27-2006, 06:49 AM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | I voted "so bad..."
The show is for killer money. I'll make way more than a typical weekend night (which is still great cash), but it's at a resort.
I like playing clubs. That's my thing. Big clubs with younger drunks (preferably gurls) getting their drink on, being crazy and having fun.
I'm gonna hate the Vegas "lounge-act" feel of the NYE gig. Hate it. We even have to wear tuxes. I've never worn a tux in my life, and now I have to strap one on for a GIG!!! 
Oh well, it's only one night. I guess I really shouldn't bitch... But you asked!!!
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12-27-2006, 06:56 AM
|  | ... you talkin' to me ?? | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: DEEP in the Heart of Texas | |  ... have a Happy and Safe New Year !!
on the upside .... 
a private party ...
an outdoor gig , stage and lighting provided ...
not too far from home , easy in , easy out ...
decent cash for each member , free food and open bar ...
on the downside ... 
gig depends on the weather ...
driving home , watching out for drunks ... please don't drive drunk ...
call a cab , or have a friend who is sober take you home ...
so yeah , mine is gonna be kinda' average , i guess ...
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12-27-2006, 07:05 AM
| | | | Our favourite venue for double pay. It'll be packed, and totally jumping...
Maybe not killer, but definatly better than OK.
The only realy downside is I'll be away from the familiy, but it's local, and won't be a late finish (they don't have an extension on they're music license, so subject to last minute changes we stop playing at 12!).
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12-27-2006, 07:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas, USSA | | 2-300 people I know, at my girlfriend's restaurant, triple what I normally get for a club gig, free Italian food, free drinks, a good cigar, fireworks show at midnite in the parking lot, cops on our side, fire dept. personnel onhand, 11 miles from home, playing from 8-9, then a half-hour break, then 930-1030, another break, then 1100-1201, 45 min break, then 1245-130...and only 11 miles from the casa! Plus my girlfriend will be onhand for roadie support! She's a doll, and a strong doll at that! Lifts my Schroeder 310212R into the back of the Jeep by herself! 
All in all, a killer regular NYE gig (third year in a row!) |
12-27-2006, 07:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Edmonton Canada | | I find New Years kind of depressing but the extra cash helps in mitigating those feelings.
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12-27-2006, 07:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas, USSA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricky Daion I find New Years kind of depressing but the extra cash helps in mitigating those feelings. | I'm with you, brother! That's why I keep doing the NYE thing...I have property taxes due that I needed help with anyway! |
12-27-2006, 07:43 AM
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Endorsing Artist: FBB Bass Works/Barker Bass | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Monroe Twp, NJ | | Compared to other New Year's Eve gigs, I guess this one will be kinda okay. Private party at a yacht club, decent pay ($1,200) for a trio, pretty light hours (10:00 pm - 1:30 am), excellent (and free) food, free cocktails, the wives are all invited (and they all get along with each other ), super easy load-in, load-out .....
I've done some monster NYE gigs through the years, so in comparison this one is much lower on the prestige scale, but I'm very okay with that ..... |
12-27-2006, 07:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cottage Grove, St. Paul suburb | | | We have a house party NYE gig for the second year in a row. The house is a classy old home with an elevated "music room" that works perfectly as a stage. The money could be better ($200/man) but we get excellent food and drinks, a very appreciative audience (we got several good paying house party gigs over the summer as a result of playing last NYE) and none of us have more than a 15 minute drive home. It's not the perfect gig, but it's damned close. |
12-27-2006, 08:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: WV | | | Private party at a local bar. Around 100 people, free food, lots of friends and even some family.
Only downside it will be a late finish, so have to watch out for the drunks. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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