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View Poll Results: How often do you gig? | |
1-2 days/ week
|    | 75 | 57.25% | |
3-4 days /week
|    | 15 | 11.45% | |
5-7 days /week
|    | 3 | 2.29% | |
I play with a traveling band fulltime.
|    | 3 | 2.29% | |
I'm more of a hobbyist or collector.
|    | 35 | 26.72% |
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06-24-2006, 01:48 PM
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I was wondering who uses this website. How many days a week do you gig? I'm a recently retired teacher and play in 4 different bands and average 1-2 days a week (weekend warrior?). |
06-24-2006, 01:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Haven't gigged in a long time. But I'd be happy with 1-2 days a week. Working with a new band and this may happen.
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06-24-2006, 01:53 PM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | | 1 Evening a week I play live.
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06-24-2006, 02:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Sheffield England (UK) | | | Playing in three bands 2/3 gigs per week, Rock/Blues, Delta Blues & R&R + Sunday night Jam session, (not bad for a 63 year old). |
06-24-2006, 02:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: New Orleans, LA | | | typically friday and saturday nights. occaisionally well get some weekday gigs and maybe my trio will have a date that week too. but with the pop/rock, just weekends. |
06-24-2006, 03:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Last year I was gigging about once a week. Now I am down to once a month.
Usually july is my best month. I currently only have two gigs booked 
So I guess I am now in the hobbiest category since I don't think three basses makes me a collector. |
06-24-2006, 05:05 PM
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On average, 1 to 3 nites a week. |
06-24-2006, 05:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: La Mesa (San Diego area), Cali | | | How often do you gig?
Every other Thursday nite, every Sunday, some Saturday nights. Usually 3-6 different things per month, usually called at the last minute!
Dan K.
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06-24-2006, 05:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Nashville, Tennessee | | | Live gigs? It varies - some weeks 5, some weeks none.
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Nashville, TN
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06-24-2006, 05:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Sandown, N.H., USA | | | It goes in spurts. The new band I'm in I've only played one gig. But in August there are five. For me, that's a lot.
With a full time career, a kid, a house and everything that goes along with it, that's WAY more than enough to keep me happy.
I don't know how others in my situation do more than that. More power to 'em!
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06-24-2006, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY | | Every Friday and Saturday night... sometimes I take a day off here and there... and I LOVE early gigs.  |
06-24-2006, 05:43 PM
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Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: SE Virginia via NYC | | | Band-less at the moment but was gigging weekends regularly! |
06-24-2006, 06:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: oslo, norway | | | weird alternatives. maybe once every couple of months |
06-24-2006, 06:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: oslo, norway | | | and why in "basses" ? |
06-24-2006, 06:52 PM
| | | I'm not in a band  wish I was though... |
06-24-2006, 06:55 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Lakland Basses | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mississippi / Memphis, TN | | | Normally once or twice a week. The most I've ever had was about 5 or 6 gigs in one week. |
06-24-2006, 06:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | When my band is actually gigging, maybe once every 2 weeks. Hard to gig and attend school at the same time. More of a hobbyist for the time being.
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06-24-2006, 07:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | Not often at all. My band just started getting serious about gigging, before this we had 1-2 gigs/year, now I'm looking at maybe 4-6 gigs/year. So... not often. We're a notoriously elusive band  .
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06-24-2006, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by mister fister and why in "basses" ? | There, that's better now.  |
06-24-2006, 09:43 PM
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Independent Manufacturers Representative | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Frisco, Texas | | I'm between bands at the moment, so a big fat "ZERO!" for me! 
Where are all the bands needing bassists in Dallas? When I was in a band, there were 10 ads a week looking for a good rock bass player. Now, all I see is ads for young guys (18-23), or a genre that I'm not interested in. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed, as well as putting myself out there.
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