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Not much call here for Tues.,Weds. or Thur. nites.

Is there anywhere that is different? 

Mid-week is for wearing your teacher hat so you can educate some rich parents prodigy how to play 'Smoke on the Water' for $100 an hour.

I've already shelled out $600 on that and I still cannae play that damnable song.

I ll teach you how to play that song for free. 


Then we will start a tribute band to deep purple and call it shallow red 


But I won't be in it with you .....I'll just take 10 percent cuz it was my idea 

 But the only thursday gig around here is LaCarettas


There WAS some talk about Mariachis  but he didn't bring it up

Thanks Greg and Jan for the good wishes. I yall have a great year! I'm hoping to do much more giggin in 2013!

I hear you on that mid week giggage thing.... So you need to move closer to a military base. 

I used to live in Jacksonville, NC where Camp LeJeune is located. We would gig the civilian clubs on the weekends and play
the military enlisted clubs during the week.  It was nothing to be gigging 15 or more days during the week in any given month 
out there on the base. Throw in the weekends in the civilian clubs and we were making a decent living playing pretty much full time.

Of course the e-clubs did not pay as much.... so we told the crew they could come along for the fun.... no pay..... and we would go in
and use our monitors as the PA.... no lights, small amps....and leave the big PA in the truck.... It took 25 minutes from arrival at the gig until we were 
ready to play....and 10 minutes to load out.  The gigs started at 6:30pm and ended at 10:30 but often the club manager would tell us to wrap it up around 9pm....
unless there was a really big crowd happening that night.  

we used those gigs as practice time.... and got paid as well.... so it was all good. After the band crashed and burned.... I kept the base gigs and played them as a solo act for
the better part of close to a year. The military club general manager/booking agent liked me. He didn't think a solo act with acoustic guitar could cut it in the rowdy e-clubs. But he
gave me one gig to either prove it or choke.  He paid his bands based on the number of people in the band on stage. Our 3 piece band was the highest paid based on that formula...
and then I became the highest paid individual on the base at that time. For some reason the guys in the clubs liked what I was doing....and it lasted until I got tired of doing it. 

Outside of the military clubs, yeah... jobs are very hard to find during the week. The number of civilian clubs that book bands for 5 nights has really
dwindled to none in this area. In J-ville, when I lived there, they had one club that booked bands for 5 days in town..... Actually the clubs using live bands around here is almost none.....
the occasional trio in a restaurant. I can not think of a single club in this town that books live acts on a regular basis anymore. 

It's getting that way everywhere Herb. Down here the clubs are small. When I was in the AF Band I would volunteer to play at the O and NCO Clubs during Cocktail and dinner hour solo or 3 piece combo. The other band guys started calling me Combo Man. I had a GB-10 for the jazz gigs back then and I loved playing it. Those gigs were usually from 11am-1pm and or 5pm-7pm so they didn't conflict with the gigs with any of the other bands I was playing with. BTW, I was born at  Camp LeJeune and lived in Jacksonville and New Bern till I was 6 years old. 

bayoubill


 But the only thursday gig around here is LaCarettas


There WAS some talk about Mariachis  but he didn't bring it up

WAIT!!! this baze player aint named David, is he ???

WAIT!!! this baze player aint named David, is he ???



Why? Do you have a Mariachis outfit? Do you sing speak Spanish? Groovy! This could be fun!