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We played the first weekend they were checking and they were definitely checking people at the door. At least a couple of our regulars weren't able to get in because they didn't know and didn't have their cards with them. It varies from venue to venue, I attended a show with a mask/vax policy...

We've lost two band members this year. The first was the drummer. We were his second band and not his priority and after agreeing to a gig with us - which we booked after he said he could do it, he told us he had another gig that night that he forgot about. We brought in a replacement for the...

An established classic rock cover band that played 2 to 4 gigs a month was looking for a bassist a few years back. Was looking to get back playing with an established band after a couple of start up projects died out either right before or right after we started to gig, so I was interested in...

Exactly, we were on two separate pages and I think everyone was relieved when that member decided to leave. Luckily, they left under good terms, so no friendships were harmed and they are probably going to sit in for a song or two at a gig we have this fall. As for what position the person had...

We tried something similar. Everybody made a list of songs they wanted to do and then we all ranked them anonymously. It turned out that one member down voted most of the ones the rest of us selected (and told us flat our that there were certain songs he refused to play regardless of the...

Used to think tip jars were kind of tacky, but most of my experiences seeing bands with one is that they would go out of the way to mention it and would sometimes have someone connected with the band go through the crowd with jar. A few years ago not long after one of my bands had stated...

Back in the 90s, one of the original bands I played with played this one club that would want all that tax info, but the weird thing is that they were only paying the band $25/50 per gig.

Played one smaller show earlier this month and the place now wants us to play there on a regular basis. By the time of the next show next month, all of the band members will have had both shots (as will a lot of our crowd), so it will be a bigger show. We are starting to get more gig offers...

Ratt's bassist, Juan Croucier, is the king of bass player stage moves. Copy as many of his moves as you can!

My roommate lent out my bass without my permission and it came back with a ding, the intonation off, and missing the strap. My roommate and I had been friends since junior high and he had always said that he never saw me get real angry before - he finally saw me get angry that day and again a...

To answer the title of the thread, I would say it depends on the situation. As the years go by and band members quit, get fired, retire, or die, you obviously have to replace them if you want to carry on. Yes has come up quite a bit, but they have been going through line up changes since the...

I've had a few start ups that just petered out after a few rehearsals, but never with a somewhat gigging band until recently. The whole evolution of the band is a long story, but I'll try to make it short(er): the band formed in early spring last year from the ashes of another local cover band...

One band I've played with tried to keep the downtime as low as possible by figuring out musical bridges to get from one song to another. It worked well some of the time, but we were a part time band/side project that was only gigging about once every three months and despite our efforts, we...

A band I've been playing with for a couple of years went on hiatus earlier this year when one of the guitarists' wife had some serious medical issues and our singer got a gig with another, more active cover band. Our singer didn't last long with that band and we had talked a couple of weeks ago...

Found out that BL was trying to replace me behind my back (and apparently the other members' backs, too) with a bass player with better vocal abilities, and was planning on keeping me strung along until a new bass player was found and ready. So I gave my notice and said I would complete the last...