#25337 by Crip2Nite
Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:54 am
Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:54 am
Every week I have someone in my band that is either moving out of state or has a gig with another band. My wife is the manager and she's getting a lot of flack for booking gigs and then having to cancel them! One minute my bassist is leaving for Fla. Next minute he's staying... then he's leaving...only to change his mind that he's staying. I'm at my wits end not knowing when our agents ask if we can do gigs months away....Don't know what to say... On top of all this, we get paid by the amount of people who show up mentioning our bands name.... In other words, we can have a packed house but if only 5 people mention our name, we only get paid for 5 people! We get booked some nights with 4-6 other bands which means serious rush-rush setting up and breaking down! I don't have a roadie. I've got to lug 2 cabinets, one combo, 3 guitars, 3 stands and my case for all my effects and cables all on my own. Some of these places have no where to park which means me having to lug this crap a pretty far distance from the club. There are no band rooms anymore in these places like there used to be and it sucks having to sit at the bar until we're ready to go on and rush like a lunatic setting up all my crap and doing a 2 second sound check.. They love us...they keep booking us more and more and are asking us to do other gigs further out east and in Manhattan..... No set salary though... still getting paid only by those who mention "PanikAtack".
I started playing for just the hell of it again... only to get more gigs than I ever did and not getting really any monetary compensation for it! It's seriously turning me off and I'm getting exhausted and tired of working 8 hour days and then going to the clubs and staying for practically 6 to 8 hours..... I'm 48... I stopped clubbing years ago... I'm spent... I'm depressed... It's turning me off
..... This was supposed to be gratifying
..... Sorry guys.... seriously needed to vent.... I'm the oldest in the band... the other guys are just turning 30 and we blow away all the younger bands out there and I seriously don't want to let them down by closing my project down but it's seriously taking it's toll on my sanity!
I started playing for just the hell of it again... only to get more gigs than I ever did and not getting really any monetary compensation for it! It's seriously turning me off and I'm getting exhausted and tired of working 8 hour days and then going to the clubs and staying for practically 6 to 8 hours..... I'm 48... I stopped clubbing years ago... I'm spent... I'm depressed... It's turning me off

