The Blues

Ugh-sorry man!!

 

Bummer.

 

Moral of this Story.........
Put away the bass, become a DJ and work whenever you want!

 

I feel you.....
There are a lot of us "musicians" at home right now on a Friday night typing on a computer instead of out entertaining a crowd.
Stupid DJ's!

 

That sucks

 

Last night we played a major County Fair side stage. Josh Turner was the national act.

It was unseasonably cold (again) which has had an impact on several of our outside shows this year. But the sad thing was they had a DJ stage 500 ft away from our stage.

There were several thousand kids 16-21 dancing having a great time. We had only a handful of people, at the embarassing level. We could hardly hear ourselves over the DJ volume.

Crowds have been disapointing, outside of SummerFest this year. I will be post a thread soon.

Blue

 

I hope you still got paid.

 

Argh, that makes me sad like you wouldn't believe. Even before I got 'into music' I just could not wrap my head around what was so great about a DJ.

 

...breach of contract.

 

+1, LOL. I’ve never done that - but there were a few times in the past when I thought about it.

 

Yep...

 

It's amazing what happens to a DJ's "instruments" when someone carelessly spills some liquids on them. Hmmmmm.......lotta liquids in the bar.........

 

The question is what can we do as a band to swing the crowd over to our stage. I got paid pretty well for last nights show but the crowd was scarce. It may be time to change our classic rock set to a Dance set.

 

^ You mean changing with the times could keep a band relevant and working???

No way!
It's Sweet Home Alabama and Honky Tonk Woman 'til the end.
That's the ways it's always been, that's the way it's always gonna be.

 

^^ Sometimes I would just rather play to 100's of people that want to hear what I'm playing than make a lot of $$. Of course Both would be better.

P.S. Any Pics of the Norton?

 

If your playing to 100's of people,your probably making a lot of $$ and they want to hear what your playing.

blue

 

Thanks Blue, At our last show, maybe 120 people showed over the course of the night. Most stayed in the separate dining area. There was no dance floor but there were tables by the stage and pool tables behind them. I just got worried because I expected more people to come sit and listen to us up close. These were youngsters that were probably talking and hooking up. The optimistic side of me says that they were as close as they could get but still carry on conversations.

Sorry for the long read and to the OP if I hijacked the thread a bit.

Gerry