so, how much did you guys get paid for your first paid gig? i do believe im getting paid for my next gig, we are playing at a club thats $20 a person to enter and we get paid depending on how many people get in, im not a club goer, so i dont know if people will actually pay $20 to get in lol. anyway... thats my first paid gig and i'll update how much i get paid then. so how about you guys? how much money went into ur wallet after the first paid gig?
Not on my first paying gig. It was almost like The Blues Brothers...the first one was on the house, so we thought we could drink for free! We were a bunch of boneheads, but what could you expect from a band called Kaution??
My first "professional" gig paid $120 for 3 days of roughly 3-4hrs. I played maybe an hour total-cept it was spread out throughout the night. It was an arts show case. If you go to collage.moonfruit.com that should be the site. I was part of Mansion After Hours. I plan on framing my pay envelope.
I think it was $25. and the gig was a "businessmen's lunch" and there were strippers involved, this was back in '61 and I had to stay down in the orchestra pit during the breaks because I was way underage. Never told my Mom about that one, LoL. George
Heh, like $100 a gig when I started doing freelance bagpipe performances, that would go anywhere from 45 mins to 2 1/2 hours of work (including travel). Now I won't go out the door for less than $200. On bass though . . . most I've made personally so far is $200 for one gig. My band does tend to make around $150-400 per gig, when we play at good venues.
my band's first show we took an offering and raised about $1200 cdn i believe (total, not each!). we were very happy with that. However basically everybody in the audience knew at least one band member so it was basically a family/friend affair.
oh... we're a 5 person band, so assuming we woulda 'paid out the spoils' that woulda worked out to almost $250 a pop. i wont expect this much every time thats for sure, not for a little Christian band
there seems to be a lot of people with their first paid gig in the 60s, i have a question, what kinda music were u guys playing then, what kind of music was big then, how easy was it to get a gig in the kind of music that wasnt too mainstream?
First legitimate paying gig I made $50 playing some songs from "Godspell" in a church = about an hour. First pro gig made $160 for a 3 hr high school dance in '72. Union gig. Played two single nighters just about every weekend in Washington with the Unicam agency. Anyone else on that circut?
Our band got £100 for our first gig, which we stuck in an 'equipment fund' which got us a new mic and a little towards a PA.
First paying gig was late 60s or early 70s, can't remember exactly (or much of anything else from that period). Was in a trio, played all original music written by the guitar player. Me and the drummer thought he was a moron and his music sucked, but at least we were playing (the drummer and I went on to form another band years later). We got paid fifty bucks each to play at a wedding reception. Free booze was supposed to be part of the deal, but they cut us off pretty quickly...
In my last band, I think we got $6 for opening for a Neil Diamond tribute act. This band, we got $600 for our first gig.
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