Recent content by mboogiemanusa

After a long time est. classic / hard rock band broke up I started a rockin' dance cover band with a singer who's project also broke up around the same time. We have been going strong for about 4 years and getting a lot of Festivals and corporate gigs....a step up from clubs and bars. Some...

I would see if the band leader can pay me the $50 when I show up........ Since I'm just a sub......the band can wait for the check. Don't care if others jam on my gear.......More time to check out other bass players and possibly learn something. Since it's a blues gig ....learn the changes to...

I converted my stand alone detached 2 car garage to a practice space. I drywalled and insulated it and added insulation / padding to the garage door. I live in a regular housing tract .... you can still hear a muffed band playing but the sound is cut down enough that no neighbors complain. We...

Go see similar more popular bands in your area and find out what songs zoo the dance floor. Be female friendly in your songs choices.....if all the pretty girls in the short skirts are out on the dance floor then everyone is happy. Every song should be a big hit and dancable. You can never have...

Sometimes you need to be out there gigging and in the scene for other opportunities to appear. No matter who you play with .....you always learn and get better.

My cover band does local Weddings at $2000 a pop and no one raises a fuss that this is unreasonable. More $$ for longer drives. This includes our lead singer performing MC duties for speeches, cake cutting, bouquet tosses, first dances and garter removals.etc We also provide acoustic...

4....Last minute booking at a dive bar after already playing for hundreds at a local festival in a park the same day. Should have turn it down but we already had our gear loaded from the first gig. No time for promotion by bar and the band - a good lesson learned. Bartender, 2 drunks and...

My cover bands has people sitting at most bar / club gigs but never at a high pay festival, corporate gig or Weddings (unless its the bride and groom banging on a cowbell LOL) These "sit ins" are always pre-planned and authorized ahead of time. We use "sit ins" as a marketing tool to get more...

500 watts x 2 and 8 ch minimum. Plus a couple 15's on poles and 2 12 inch speakers for monitors I use one of these for a weekly open mic and back up pa head for my larger 16ch system Invalid Link Removed So my Open mic set up is listed below....this will handle loud guitars and drums 8ch...

+1 on this ....always tip at least a buck on all drinks .....even free comps. Good way to keep the comps flowing.

The band should have a tab at a reduced price ....maybe just need to ask before hand. A good tip is to subliminally make little suggestions to have the audience members buy the band a round of drinks. Then everyone wins.....you get free drinks and the bar gets drink sales at full price. All the...

Yup this is how we do it also .......we give clients our current set list and they choose the songs they like. Then we learn the special request songs (if doable) Some times clients just give us music sub genre like....."we want a few modern country songs".....and we will learn some modern...

About 3 years ago....I started a classic rock bar band which quickly had to morph into a "party dance" band to get gigs. We stopped marketing ourselves as classic rock and gigs increased. At the beginning we had too many performance type of songs - lead guitar favorite jams and not enough sure...

LOL...This strategy not going work for most groups. My wife stopped going to gigs years ago except maybe New Years Eve if its at a posh resort. They decided to make their band more of a social club and any new members going in will need to agree that their significant other will also need to be...

Good Eyes LOL Will have to change that on next version