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I`ll start with:

``DONT f**k YOUR FANS !!!!! I know thats why we get into music butt when a girl likes you & thinks yuor a hot musician she will keep coming to all your gigs & bring all her friends ... once you bang her & don't give her all the attenion she wants coz your a hot musician & you're busy with music & stuff , she will stop coming , stop listening , stop bringing her friends & then slowly you will become like me , old & lonely ...``
(Ziggy Plays the Drums www.myspace.com/ziggyplayzthedrumz)

Want to see what others bands have to say?:
http://gigdoggy.wordpress.com/

thats very nice. Thank you.

what did you need advice on again?

Play sober then get smashed later as a reward lol...

How to get people to keep coming to shows:

1) Post about your show on mySpace, Facebook, and any other site where you can post events for your band.

2) Everytime you are talking to someone, if they ask you what you are up to these days (and this comes up in almost every conversation I have!), mention your show and be very enthusiastic about it. Be sure to have business cards handy that sends them to a website (be it mySpace or a homepage) that gives all the details about the show they need!

3) During a show, encourage the audience to come talk to you afterwards. Offer to take pictures, sign autographs on CD, whatever! Talk to everyone you can at the end of every show and thank them for supporting you. Show an interest in what they have to say and LISTEN to what they have to say carefully. Take an interest in the lives of people who support you. Remember people's names! Or at least some things about them that you talked about at the end of a show. It will come in handy the next time they come to one of your shows.

4) Find fresh faces... whether it's a local independent radio (colleges and universities are an awesome source for radio airplay if they have a station), or local publications, your local paper, wherever. FIND NEW PEOPLE and tell them what you do. Give them a business card. Be enthusiastic but not overbearing. Again, show an interest in what other people have to say, because it's not all about you!

5) Practice, practice, practice!!!! Make your shows the best they can be by being well-rehearsed and make sure you sound awesome at every show!’

(Union of Lanterns www.myspace.com/unionoflanterns)

Dont forget to have fun, No one in your audience is gonna have fun if your not projecting that you are.

check out the blog entries on m myspace page....good tips and more to come.....add me while you are there...I am in need of friends...i mean...can you really ever have enough of them?

Dez, How do I add you? My band has a Myspace page but one of the other guys takes care of it. I know nothing of such things. Here's our page if you need it to be added.

http://www.myspace.com/dressedtokill

You are not alone Mike. You are not alone.

If anyone wants, or is missing, my myspace here it is:

myspace.com/guitaranatomy

Cool blog dez
really good advice, you only got a couple of posts but the material is tight
promising reading people. check it out

We also have a blog at
http://gigdoggy.wordpress.com/

It is also to help out musicians, its mostly based on band quotes we got from myspace musicians so the ideas are pretty diversified.

mruff

gigDoggy

Don't forget to boink as many hot chicks as you can after each and every gig... maybe this will bring a lot more people down to your next show... like their boyfriends, big brothers, daddy's, etc... after a while, you'll definitely have a packed house!

Good one Cript!
If ya ever seriously give up on "Panic Attack!", consider movin' to the Poconos. There's a lot of places for sale and I could find a use for a decent guitar playin' comedian!
Hooooooooooowwwwwwlin'

Advice to Indie bands / soloists:
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Practice.

Get a daytime job....

haha yea crypt, so true but one must be careful when bangin his fan chicks.
Here is a quote a musician left on our blog in respect to that:

"OH, and the biggest advice I have ... don't go out with your fans !!! I know thats why we get into music but when a girl likes you and thinks your a hot musician she will keep coming to all your gigs and bring all her friends but once you bang her and don't give her all the attention she wants cause your a musician and you're busy with music and stuff, she will stop coming , stop listening , stop bringing her friends and then slowly you will become like me, old and lonely ... haha!!
(www.myspace.com/ziggyplayzthedrumz)

check it out

www.gigdoggy.com