How many gigs did YOU play last year?

[monkeyland]

151. Down by about 50 from 2018 by design as I'm trying to have a few more evenings at home now that we have a little guy.

 

[rohi]

28

 

[BigNotes]

25 or so. Then about 40 Sunday mornings for church. I think there is a little tension there. Close to my age!

 

[Squittolo]

2. One in July and one on new year's Eve playing in a QUEEN's cover band.

 

[FretlessFatty]

In one band, mostly a garage band... but, we did do 5 gigs. Lotsa fun. Hope we do more in 2020.

 

[ThePez]

joined a new band in march, first show was in april... so we played 24 shows from april to december.

 

[crlujan]

41. That's down from the year before. This year will be even less. Taking less garbage gigs. Concentrating on recording.

 

[BaltBass5]

42

 

[rocu]

A half dozen on bass, a dozen or so on fiddle.

I forgot another half dozen on sound.

I've had three already this year so pretty good so far.

 

[danalogue]

142

 

[murph7489]

my band did around 27 I think..pretty much good for me since we always take all of January and February off..I would probably play more but a lot of the guys in my band are happy playing what we do and our drummer is in another band which by default limits what we can play because they generally book out a couple months ahead of us...we get the leftovers ha ha..which I don't mind..

 

[twinjet]

Seeing at how it's the new year, I took a look back at the gigs I did between the 2 bands I'm in, and a few fill in gigs I did.
I'm not a gig machine as I have a full time day job which limits me a bit, but I still managed to sneak in 45 gigs last year. One of the bands I play in, the keyboardist is a full time gig machine (he does small nursing and senior home solo gigs, plays with multiple bar and wedding bands, etc.), and didn't quite make it to 600 last year.
That's right. 597 gigs in one year!
So I'm curious what some of you guys tallied up over the last 12 months.
I shoot for 2 or 3 a month so I think I did ok overall.
How about it? What say you bass bretheren?

Only 15 this past year. Down from 24 the year before.

 

[socialleper]

Not too many. My new band doesn't play as often. I think we played out 5 or 6 times.
My previous one would try to play once a month. It is hard to book shows more often than that. The venues don't want bands playing too often because then people won't show up to see you again.

 

[Jim Carr]

Over 30, maybe 40.

 

[interp]

Probably only about 15-20. Slow year.

 

[stringthrough]

Went through last year's calendar - - 34 gigs.

That's just about as many as I'd like to play (about 3 per month) unfortunately they tend to cluster around Summer, making November-February, gigging deserts.

Anyway, I already have 14 gigs booked for this year so I expect to total about as many as last year.

 

[baileyboy]

15-20 paying gigs, 0 non-paying gigs

 

[hrodbert696]

Only 10. Hope springs eternal for 2020, the classic rock band is picking up steam. Add another couple dozen if you count playing acoustic guitar in church.

 

[dan1952]

About 60 on bass, another 20 on piano. Played a few songs on guitar at one fairly big theater show where I mostly played piano.

 

[rashrader]

Zero!! I am retired from gigging.