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Location: Michigan | so far in my lifetime i figure that it has cost me a negative $100.000.000.000 million seven hundred fifty six thousand and some change.
for all of the hours of playing setting up traveling ,, i am working for about a negative $150.000.00 dollars an hour.
time spent playing/practicing @ per hour $20.00 hr
equipment costs = ?
time spent traveling= ?
money made for playing= $0.00
man is this guitar stuff expensive.......but worth it. GWB |
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Location: Ohio | I play a Celebrity Dlx..............What do YOU think???
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I won $50 at Amelia Island last spring. I was using a borrowed guitar, so that's pure profit. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | You might be looking at it from the wrong angle, gwb. The question is how do you make a small fortune with a guitar?
Start with a large fortune (and catch OFC GAS). |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Does this include garage bands as a teenager? |
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Location: closely held secret | Does this include getting paid for not playing? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Lifetime income is different from net profit. I don't do it to make money, so I can't count the time spent playing or practicing. As far as income, that's easy--zero. |
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Location: Michigan | i did include my earnings for garage band concerts colin $ 0.00 $ but lots of fun . GWB |
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Location: Yalova/Turkey | Citation The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel: "Does this include getting paid for not playing?" >>>> That´s the way I earn my money :)
But sometimes they throw buckets full of water instead of coins :(
If you want to join the club (of water throwers) listen to: Weekend on http://ovationfanclub.ning.com/profile/ChristopherKubaseck |
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Location: south east Michigan | Like Dave... $50 from Amelia a year and a half ago.(Which was immediaty parsed out at the Huddle House).
And a buck-fifty from my recent busking adventure.
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Location: Flahdaw | Money spent on instruments and accessories....$ thousands
Money made from playing instruments...almost $0
The pure pleasure of being able to play the guitar....priceless |
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Location: East Tennessee | We're supposed to make $$$$$ ??? :D |
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Location: Citizen of the Galaxy | It's called "playing", not "working" guitar. |
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Location: NJ | cash? well I am so far in the hole it is not funny
but does getting sex from an appreciative female fan count? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Three-hour school dances in the 60's . . . $100 split four ways.
One to three songs for weddings in the 70's . . . $100.
An occasional back-up accompaniment gig for a touring group in the 90's . . . scale, about $100 for two hours.
One song about a redhead at Amelia in 2009 . . . $100.
40 years of gigs and the money hasn't changed. |
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Location: Michigan | sounds to me like this amelia is the place to make some big bucks playing.maybe al can get his payment there also. :D GWB |
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Location: Michigan | About a buck fifty less than Brad had in his case.
Does getting paid not to play count? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I won $50 at Amelia Island last spring. I was using a borrowed guitar, so that's pure profit. I won $100 at Amelia '08...immediately bought a 12 string set of walnut tuner buttons from Temp...so much for that... :D |
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| So far: $0. Working towards a goal of eventually getting paid for playing guitar: priceless!
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| It's really just a hobby, so I give what ever I make from it to my kids. |
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Location: Utah | If I can make enough with the new band to pay for the strings and picks that are consumed playing in the band, I'll consider it a success. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by alpep:
cash? well I am so far in the hole it is not funny
but does getting sex from an appreciative female fan count? It counts for much more, unless you marry her. Then it shifts back over into the expense column. |
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Location: SW Washington | If I totaled it all up I am sure it would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $58.23 over the last 40 years... WOW that is over a dollar a YEAR!!! I had no idea this gig was that lucrative! Maybe I should try to raise my horizons a bit and shoot for $2.00 a year? Well, you know, I can always dream, right? |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ..Actual $$ received from paying gigs: <$100
..Actual joy received from the smiling faces in
the Rest Home audience: PRICELESS.
...I'm being well paid. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Originally posted by alpep:
cash? well I am so far in the hole it is not funny
but does getting sex from an appreciative female fan count? It counts for much more, unless you marry her. Then it shifts back over into the expense column. |
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what is your lifetime $ income $ so far for playing your music???
