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This question for Band Leaders - do you make every musician sign a performance contract for the big money shows? My bar cover band has graduated up to the bigger Festival and Wedding gigs with larger paydays. We have been using standard band contracts with clients but usually only a...

Have plane tickets and lodging arranged in a nearby suburb. Taking a train into the city. No gigs just checking it out as a music fan. First time in Austin and SXSW festival. Any must see venues or things I need see or know?

My band has been booked for the annual Halloween Party at local Lounge. The owner wants us to come with all the extra Halloween shtick and handle the MC duties for the party.....costume contests and anything else we can think of. Any one have fun shtick they do at Halloween? For example we...

One of my bar owner clients wants me to produce some kind of music event that will work on a Sunday afternoon 3pm to 7pm. The current Sunday night Karaoke host is getting the boot for under-performing. I currently run a successful open mic jam on Thursday nights so the owner asked me if I could...

Any TBers ever host a jam night at their local clubs as a bass player host? One of my local dives that my cover bands regularly gigs called me to see if I was interested in hosted their weekly Thursday night open mic / jam night. I am just a bass player however do have the PA / amps and drums to...

Hey Talk Bass SVT Pro 4 users Just upgraded to a Ampeg SVT Pro 4 head. Need to mount this beast in a case. Anyone have any rack case ideas or brands you recommend? Any thing out there with wheels?

This primarily goes out to the cover bands? My cover band is looking for ideas for birthdays beside playing "Birthday" by the Beatles if possible. I just saw another cover band murder that song for someone's birthday......it was obvious that they had not rehearsed that song in a few years...

One of my cover bands got offered a plum slot on an upcoming benefit concert with 3 other local bands. Should be great publicity with local news / radio coverage and an estimated attendance of about 600 peeps. Large outdoor event with covered stage and pro PA. The only downside is that for our...

I'm in an currently in an classic/modern rock cover bands with some older guys. Musically we are comparible or better than competing bands in everyway except stage image. Frankly we have some short comings in the image department especially when compared to some of the other bands in the area...

Just a vent ....I recently joined an established cover band that needed a bassist. Nice group of guys, decent musicians and paying gigs on the calendar. Problem is the setlist is short on popular dancable songs and long on extended concert style lead guitar jams. Once the lead guitard goes into...

Thought I would share this with the forum. Rock and roll is apparently a contact sport. One of my friends in another classic rock cover band got messed up last Friday night when a bouncer knocked him off his stage perch. He has a wireless set up and likes run around and put on a show doing...

Just want to say upfront -apologize in advance for this long post A drummer friend of mine asked me to do a little garage jam with a guitar player he met that recently moved into the area. Seemed like nice guy at first and decent player that knew a lot of songs from the 60's and mid 70's and...

My cover band played an awesome show down at the local dive bar last Saturday night. The dance floor was pumping all night and crowd was hootin & hollowrin...clappin along and shouting out all the lyrics. People were coming up to us all night long saying how awesome the band sounds and stuffing...

My "old guy" classic rock cover/bar band was just offered a gig to play a 10 year high school reunion. Obviously we will load up the sets with modern dancable rock to augment the classics. Yes, the reunion committee knows we are classic rock but selected us over 20 other options including Top 40...

Sorry for the rant but getting this out of my system before I go punch this idiot. My band had a gig at a local club on Friday night which is only a mile from my house. Since it was going to be raining all night and I have Friday's off from the day job, I moved my gear over there in between...

For those of you playing New Years Eves gigs, just wondering what extra shtick you'll be adding to your shows to make the night really special? Strippers jumping out of cakes? Auld Lang Syne played on kazoos ? Extra lights and sound effects? Suits and ties? What are you doing extra in your NYE...

We are a female fronted classic/southern/alternative rock cover band that usually plays local bar gigs. We play mostly 70's to 90's danceable classic rock but do not play any disco, motown, current top 40 or rave type dance music. We just booked a high dollar New Years eve dinner/dance party for...

Any one checking out VH1 rock and roll fantasy camp? First episode just broadcast this week. Campers auditioned and were selected by camp counselors into their respective bands. Bass playing counselors are represented by pros Kip Winger and Rudy Sarzo. Campers are represented by amateur Joes and...

Seems to be quite a few bar cover bands in my area that never practice as a unit and only get together if there is a paying gig. That's ok for the semi-pro experienced players that gig regularly but what sticks in my craw is the bands where every member is standing behind a big black orchestra...

Another poster had a story about meeting the drummer of REO Speedwagon. I thought that having a thread about famous folks sitting in at your gigs may be interesting. My bar band Boogie Stew was playing a benefit concert at a biker poker run a while back. The charity hired character actor Mickey...

I run a 410/horn Fender cabinet off a Carvin 600w redeye combo. Recently I started getting crackling noises thru the 4 10s especially at higher frequencies. The speakers were recently reconed and are in good shape. I disconnected the high freq horn and the speakers still crackle. The speakers...