Touring for "exposure"

The only questions for me are...
Which direction to run
And how fast

 

whoa, so much to unpack with this. 75 bucks just to apply

 

Have no clue about this situation, but you work to make a living, and each year, people die of exposure.

I used to get feelers from guys with 'major label interest' and wondered if it was Fruit of the Loom or Haines. . . .

 

I can send you packing for only $200 per week. When can you start?

 

No venue names means they don’t have confirmed venues and/or they don’t want you to know the size/type of facilities.

You should definitely do the West tour that has 20 days in Idaho.

Just because there’s 50 acts and none of them come up in a google search doesn’t mean they aren’t going to draw double digit audiences if it’s free.

 

Per "TJ's Rule", this situation is 10 times worse than it appears.

Riis

 

I heard of something like this before. Don't know if it's the same people, but the one I heard of they performed mostly in churches and youth groups. The "accommodations" were mostly camping in someone's yard. Maybe that's worth it to you, maybe not. You'll want to have these things defined before making a commitment. They did auditions in Nashville and had some master classes talking about stage presence and that kind of thing, so the trip to the auditions had some value. Again, I don't know if its the same people.

 

How do you get from location to location? My guess is that you're footing your own money to drive your van from point A to point B. Look at streams of the Artists they have listed and you can get an idea of the turnout that you can expect. Also kinda odd that they don't show any pics of the crowd at any of the previous events. This is a big commit on the artists part for not a lot of commit on the organizer. I would avoid. Now if it were a week long tour that would limit my outlay, I maybe could do it as a vacation if all else fails. It's only a week.

 

The opposite direction and as fast as you can.

 

When I was a kid, there was a commercial that used to come on to the TV. (I think it was KCOP out of Los Angeles.)

It was for the Barbizon School of Modeling. A fast talking salesman would say, “Be a model, or just look like one.”

As I read this thread, I can’t help but hear his voice say, “Be a bass player, or get treated like one”.

Run. Run far, run fast, my friend.

 

To each their own, but I don't respond to this kind of folderol.

 

https://www.reddit.com/user/West-Astronaut2459/

This was informative, I would avoid if you're looking to perform. If you're looking to evangelize, probably stick with your local church.

 

This has the distinct odour of aging fish, all the way through the internet.

You might have fun and meet some interesting people but expect to pay all of most of your own expenses. Beyond that I wouldn't count on much at all.

 

Sounds like somebody with a hand out trying to make a buck off people's dreams. <s> Never saw that one in the music business before </s>

 

I’m glad they put this at the beginning, because this is exactly where you should stop and decline. It most certainly does not go without saying, and if you’re trying to be musician professionally, it most certainly is something you do to get rich (or at the very least make ends meet). Plenty of ways to get exposure in this day and age, but touring with a bunch of no-name bands on a tour put together by a promotion company that most definitely does not invoke excitement from would-be patrons certainly isn’t one of them.

 

This is the place that runs The Extreme Tour as one of its many ministries. You're really not allowed to be critical of anything church-related. So, I'm not saying anything critical. I'm just saying that this is the place that runs The Extreme Tour. 31542 Railroad Canyon Rd Ste 3 Canyon Lake, CA, 92587-9485 and you can zoom in on the window.