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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | . . . will pack $5,000 worth of gear in a $500 car, then drive 100 miles for a $50 gig? |
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Location: Chicago | True story! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Been there, done that...
Good to see you here Brad...miss the old times...BTW, I have something for you if I can find it...I'll PM you when I do! |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Miles needs to add that one to the random quote feature.  |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I couldn't even get a $50 gig, maybe because my car is worth more than $500, but won't hold $5000 worth of gear. Maybe not. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | In my case, my band stuffed all of our gear in my mid-60's telephone company van...and we drove to some pretty suspect gigs to get going...including playing an all night gig on a closet sized stage behind chicken wire...lol... |
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | I know amateur astronomers that will mount a $500 telescope on a $5000 mount and take pictures with a $15,000 CCD camera! |
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | A couple of months back I put my $5,000 worth of gear into my car and drove a 175 mile round trip to do two three song sets for free.
And I had to buy my own lunch.
I must be weak in the head, because each month I do pretty much the same thing, but it's only a 60 mile round trip.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My closest gig . . . I loaded up some gear on a green garden cart, wheeled it across the street to a temporary stage the city set up in the park, and we played along the route for a marathon race. We were told that we'd have an audience estimated to be over 5,000, but each runner heard only about 15 seconds worth as he or she ran by. Kind of strange. Hard to build a fan base doing rock'n'roll marathons. |
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Location: Tennessee | Well, look at it this way Professor ... you only need to know one song. |
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Location: Jet City | A couple of weeks ago I was at the Gorge for a show and we had guitars, a djembe, and other rhythmic items in tow at the campground.
My friend J and I started to play, a dude sat down at the djembe, and we all started jamming', plain songs and haven fun. Next thing I know, there were 40-60 people crowded 'round just listening, havin' a good time. It was pretty cool...
Then the funniest thing happened, a gal walked into the circle, said "I don't know if we're supposed to, but here..." and threw a dollar down on the ground in front of us. It came out to $.33 ea, I kept the extra penny cuz I sang. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | stonebobbo - 2014-09-18 11:59 PM Well, look at it this way Professor ... you only need to know one song. Yep, and not even all of it. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Worse...I saw a guy playing a $5000 custom guitar at an Open Mic playing for FREE. He lost money on that gig... |
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Who else but a guitar player . . .