Check your state laws regarding live entertainment in venues that serve alcohol.
Good luck.
Btw, I'd give him a shot just like anyone else. Advanced age does not always equal maturity.
After doing some digging, here in Mass there are some guidelines but he does not have to be 21 to perform in a bar. He could actually be as young as 14, which is the legal working age in this state. He cannot be on the premises if he is not working, basically he cannot be there in the same capacity a patron would be. So for our purposes, the state allow would allow him to perform there. Whether club owners decide to allow it is another story.
I'm hoping he is going to come down and audition. The drummer is the one talking to him.
Now derailing my own thread......
I've gotten a lot of interest from the ads I posted but not one single person has chosen to audition. I thought we had one but he chose not to audition stating he does not have the time (or ambition) to learn our songs. It's frustrating.
Here are the issues;
Some that were interested are too far away (over an hour commute).
Some did not want to work with another guitarist.
Some wanted to gig more than we intend to.
Some wanted to gig less than we intend to.
But the biggest problem has been.....our song selection, primarily the diversity in it. Person after person has stated that while the band sounded like a great time (some liked the audio clips I sent them), they just simply were not interested in doing such a variation in music. We cover a wide range of stuff. For example, you will find Elvis' "Little Sister", and then there's Luke Bryan's "Country Girl Shake It For Me", and then there's Better Than Ezra's "Good", then it jumps over to Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing", then you get to play Sly And The Family Stone's "Thank You" and a little bit of AC/DC's "Big Balls". Then you can bang out Theory Of A Deadman's "Lowlife".
None of these tunes are particularly musically straining, if you know what I mean.
We did this on purpose, we wanted to put together a really diverse song list of all kinds of tunes that people liked that would appeal to a wide audience, the focus being on dancing and having fun. We all can play different styles of music and we enjoy not being locked into one particular style. If given the preference, we each like something, I like country, the drummer likes disco, the guitarist likes southern rock, the singer likes 90's pop-rock, but we all enjoy that we can play the different styles appropriately, we liked the challenge of learning and performing a lot of different types of music and we knew we could put together something that, really, no other local band is doing (the area is dominated by genre-specific bands, especially classic rock).
Here's where I'm thinking this kid might work out, or at least we should give him a shot He wants to play, he wants to gig, like, BAD. I'm finding with older, more experienced people they are more interested in what they are playing versus the opportunity to gig (we are actually getting offers consistently NOW). A lot of people seem to like being "genre players" for cover bands. We don't (intentionally) gig often enough to attract guys who are willing to just do it for the money, because there isn't a lot when you only play once or twice a month, these guys want 8 shows a month.
We knew going in to this that we were doing something somewhat unusual. For what we do, we probably need somebody young and hungry who is more about the opportunity to perform than they are about what is being played.
