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#21
My wife and I play together in several bands:

1. Our home church praise band (wide path here, we do it all, hymns, CCM, P&W, Southern Gospel, Black Gospel, bluegrass, country gospel)
2. Our weekender band is our own band - Bluegrass Gospel, mainly churches and festivals
3. Foothills District Church of God Praise Band - mostly newer P&W and CCM, some old church songs
4. Primitive rest home band - nothing but old. old songs

So on average, we play about 15 dates per month. All Christian music, nothing else.
 
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#22
Good topic ... For me it's working with a couple of Blues/Blues-Rock bands one is a raw loose jam type juke joint outfit, the other is a bit more diverse with slicker/tighter arrangements with more old school R and B thrown in. We work about 90% on Beale street in Memphis TN mostly for the tourist trade (literally from all over the world). The other 10% is within about 100 miles of the surrounding area. It's about 50/50 on full PA support vs playing "barefoot" with a vocals only PA, so your gear has to be able to do both.
 
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MultiScaleMale said:
I have two gigs - the first is playing bass for the Baltimore Ravens. So I regularly play to 70,000 people but not a single one is there to see me. Heh. We play with the marching band and do fill in music during the game. Sometimes it's 30 seconds, sometimes it's two minutes. You get the call from the booth and you play, now! I view it similar to a late night talk show band. Every time we play it's something different. You have to be flexible, different keys, read and play on the fly and the group needs to gel enough to almost have ESP to know that we need to stretch out an ending with zero warning.

My other gig is with a local band, Artistic Differences, we play a mix of covers and originals in small bars and outdoor gigs in the area. it's a lot of fun since all the members get along well and we all love gear.
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wow that sounds like a sweet gig, too bad the ravens are tebow awful this year....
 
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#25
Five piece southern rock, outlaw country, boogie blues cover band. Work mostly in one city and surrounding area. Play an average of 2x per month. B level bars mostly, some dives, some summer outdoor events/venues. Always seem to be on the edge of cracking the A-list bars/venues and festival dates. We do a number of gigs every year for charity in the military and law enforcement communities.

Also play in a "mostly jamming/some open stages/private parties" old time country band. I play console steel in that band and I'm in the intermediate stages of learning that (and pedal steel and dobro) so willing to play for free/cheap to build my chops.
 
#26
Good thread!
Traditional Jazz at restaurants, private affairs, libraries, wineries, outdoor festivals, corporate functions, jazz brunches, challenging non-paid jazz jams. No more rock and pop. I'm too friggen old. I have found pianists and horn sections much more musical and reasonable than guitarist who stand before their stacks. BTW, lemme know if you wanna book us.
 
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sleeplessknight said:
Anything and everything that pays. Dive bars, live bars, raw bars, clubs of all shapes and sizes. Proposals, weddings, divorces, funerals (that was a weird one...). Private parties, public parties, corporate work. You name it, if a paycheck is involved, I'll be there!
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That's pretty much me, tho' mostly married to my current country band, as we're REAL busy...
Already booked for NewYear NEXT year !! drool
Sub when we're not booked (if asked/requested) and do church gigs on those Sundays when I didn't get into bed at 4 am!
 

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