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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:28 am
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I do gigs at a wide variety of venues with a wide variety of musicians for a wide variety of satisfaction. :wink:

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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:33 am
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I am a gigging musician and I have been for about 11 years now. I started when I was 13. We play for weddings and other parties like that. We also played for a pretty large Music Festival down here in Santa Fe last summer that should become an annual event. I love getting out and playing to a crowd and I especially love that I get to do this with family. My Grandpa plays lead and rythym guitar, My Dad plays lead and rythym guitar and lead vocal, my uncle is our drummer and I play bass. It is lots of fun.


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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:20 pm
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I just want to get to the point where I'm good enough to gig. Then we'll see what happens from there.


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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:22 pm
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I used to gig quite a bit. But for a while I stopped playing altogether.

I've picked it up again, and I'm about to record a few tunes with an old friend from formative days. I really don't know what's in the cards after this.

I'd love to gig, but with my job right now (I'm on the road a lot) it would be difficult for me to get into a band.

I guess unless I want to just endlessly record and do the occasional open mic night, I'm going to have to get another job, eh?

Ah well.


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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:39 pm
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I'd really like to Gig again. I used to play out almost every week either with my Dad and Brother, or a band called Crossroads I was in for a short time, or sitting in with someone elses band, or open mic nights (I was even the guitarist for open mic night at a little bar called The Tail Of The Whale), or any way I could find to play live.

Hunger and Equipment Faliure (and a case of ringworm from cheep motels)forced me into a really good day job, now I'm always fed and I can afford all this stuff, but I haven't gotten out to gig for about 7 or 8 years, just work, and home. That will change soon. :mrgreen:

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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:05 pm
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I was a roadie in the mid-80s once for a guy who was a pretty cool suitemate at school in the dorm. He was just starting out. Funny guy and pretty smart with good grades. Loved Woody Allen. We couldn't believe it when at the end of that year he quit school and changed his first name. Got paid with beer for the roadie gig but caught a vicious flu bug. Last time I was a roadie for him, although he did crash at my apartment the following summer. I jammed with him also, but I knew very little and I was rusty because I hadn't been playing for years. He was just learning. He used to call me Kirk due to the beer/chips and salsa belly I had going. About 13 years later in the late 1990s, I was sitting on the couch drinking a cup of coffee before hauling $@! into work to do a trial, and there he was on MTV, looking the same as back in school. His band just had the one really big album, and then did greatest hits but they've been touring and he's still a musician. Only reason he went for the music was so he could get some outrageously hot Texas babes hooked up with him - he told me himself around the time we went to see him at a gig the following year. By then, he really was pretty good and the crowd loved him, even though I knew he was just playing some Ernie Ball how to play songs that he memorized. They were crowd pleasers. Now that I picked up the guitar again and play all the time, I appreciate he efforts to write solos and songs more, because I generally just play my Blues or Blues songs by other people like BB and Clapton.


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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:13 pm
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I was a roadie in the mid-80s once for a guy who was a pretty cool suitemate at school in the dorm. He was just starting out. Funny guy and pretty smart with good grades. Loved Woody Allen. We couldn't believe it when at the end of that year he quit school and changed his first name. Got paid with beer for the roadie gig but caught a vicious flu bug. Last time I was a roadie for him, although he did crash at my apartment the following summer. I jammed with him also, but I knew very little and I was rusty because I hadn't been playing for years. He was just learning. He used to call me Kirk due to the beer/chips and salsa belly I had going. About 13 years later in the late 1990s, I was sitting on the couch drinking a cup of coffee before hauling $@! into work to do a trial, and there he was on MTV, looking the same as back in school. His band just had the one really big album, and then did greatest hits but they've been touring and he's still a musician. Only reason he went for the music was so he could get some outrageously hot Texas babes hooked up with him - he told me himself around the time we went to see him at a gig the following year. By then, he really was pretty good and the crowd loved him, even though I knew he was just playing some Ernie Ball how to play songs that he memorized. They were crowd pleasers. Now that I picked up the guitar again and play all the time, I appreciate he efforts to write solos and songs more, because I generally just play my Blues or Blues songs by other people like BB and Clapton.

Well.....who the Heck Was He?? :?

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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:24 pm
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Fred. That's all I'm saying to protect his privacy. Hope you understand.


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Fred. That's all I'm saying to protect his privacy. Hope you understand.

You mean the B52's :shock: :) :D ....Just Kidding.

I understand, I was just curious.........Right Said Fred?....Again, just kidding.

Anyway, I can relate to your story. A freind of mine from kindergarden ended up on VH1 and a Girl I had a Crush on in School ended up as an announcer on the Oudoor Channel.

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Does that make you Barney?

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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:24 am
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I've been gigging for about 14 years and make about half my living from that. We do 70-80 gigs a year and have a self produced CD. I'd like to gig more, and am looking for another band to fill in with.
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Over my tenure as a musician I've performed in over 1200 shows. Some were solo, some duets, some with 3, 4 and 5 piece groups. Even played in a 9 piece with horn section and all (didn't make much money there).

I've been through the whole thing, feast and famine. Went through times of hardly making ends meet to making more money than I could possibly spend.

Now, I perform when I want in situations that I want. In other words its more of a hobby now. But I really, really injoy it more now than I did when I was younger.


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