General Music Chat

Heres some shots from sats show at the Firehouse in Brownsville Tn. This is a 100 seat room. We grossed merch and the door a shade under $1000 for the night. If you are selling merch, one thing we added were the neck beads. We sold them 5 for $1, this was the hottest thing cause we sold all of them we had plus they look good on everyones neck. Also had Glow Sticks. Make your gigs a party and make everyone happy and you can be successful.


"Hot Mama" Rachel Baird with bar owner Mary and Sweet Sweet Connie The Merch Lady

Finalist In The "Hot Mama" contest, I kinda liked the gal Cindy in the AYM shirt, but we measured the crowd with a DB meter and Rachel took it hands down, in fact we didnt need the DB meter the crowd was so crazy!

This is the part I love, When you get a crowd dancing, singing and haveing a good time. It makes it all worth it to me.

This gal should have been in the "Hot Mama" contest, there were quite a few goodlooking women in the house and they said they were there because of our marketing on myspace catering to women. We hope to continue the buzz. If gals like Jessie show up at our gigs we will capture all the guys.

Kevin Byrd and John Wilder singing together again. This is great, we are able to harmonize live without any effort. Weve reduced our volume levels to the point where we hear everything clear as a bell. Also this is the first gig we ever did that I had no complaints about volume. Now to tweak the songlist!

Party Time

Paging Crip, I told you I would get a picture of me eating the guitar. It used to taste like chicken, but sat it tasted like TUNA. I'll let you guys figure that out.

More Cheap Tricks, notice the beads all over the mic stand, we sold 2 gross bags of those things. I just wonder where they all wind up, I got home and some were in my boots!

Great Band Shot, but I put this picture on here to show you the video stuff, notice the camcorder on the table. Also look behind the bass player and see the image on the wall. We have 2 wall projectors tied together. At this point I had Tools Parabola DVD playing. Thats the head on the wall behind our bass player. I have the camera tied to one of the projector units, the one on my side. Our sound man Donn has a remote that controls the projector you see in front of me, he just changes the source on that side and Walla instant live video behind us. He would turn it on us or the crowd. The crowd ate this up, at one point they found the camera and were doing all sorts of crazy stuff on the camera that I cant put on a public forum. Stuff like this can seperate your band from the pack. After the gig we signed autographs for 20 minutes, felt like a Rockstar.

Another band shot, Kevin our singer dug out his old Pink spandex body suit, Im glad he didnt drop the trousers. I lost all my spandex years ago. I dont think Im going back there.

Anyway thanks for looking at our pictures. We have a couple of weeks off from full gigs. But we have a couple of benefits and biker things where we just do a set and dont use all the lights and video. I found a film maker who is going to start shooting gigs and make a documentary of our band.

Have A Great Day!!

Aw c'mon JW! I wanna see the spandex!

LMAO

You have a handle on the fun factor, man. Good gig shots. Nice work.

I've seen bigger beads, though.

Beads....new code word?

Um....no. I accidently slipped into a porn site & saw some big ones, though. I won't tell you what they were doing with them.

Thank you for that.

Gotta get that mental image out of my head now. Sheesh!

Awesome pics!! OK.... my next pics will be of me actually playing with my toungue! Seriously.... no joking.... This means War!!

Looks like a blast.... Both our bands together on a night would seriously be one helluva kickass show!!

You guys put on a good show!

Dam Crip not the tongue, thats for after the show isnt it?

Im not ready to line up with ya yet but it wont be long, still getting all the cobwebs out.

Craig, Good to hear from you. I hope things are going well, I kinda lost track of you guys.

Great stuff JW. The girls just love it when I tongue my guitar. I think I have a video of me on stage doing the same thing and the gals start going crazy.

John, I hate you dude. No for real man looks like ya'll had a blast. Your formula is working well keep stirring the pot. and keep the pictures coming.

George over the last year Ive talked on here about things we are doing and now Im showing people what we are doing. We are getting some serious buzz in our area. The above club if you walked in the door, they would offer you $200 to $300 dollars to start with and then you might get $400 if the crowd liked you. We are going around that and making 3 to 4 times what the local bands get out of this particular club. I shocked the guy when I said I want the door, I explained youve got nothing to lose. Your not out anything if I dont bring people. A lot of places that we are playing wont do this but if they will we can score big. There is a risk cause there are off nights everywhere. But using my formula I think we will beat the odds some.

The videos going were a big hit, and you might say I cant afford to do that. Well Im talking to a couple of companys about flashing advertisements during our gigs for $50 to $100 a pop. One of the companys is my own so I know Ill have one happening soon and Ive got interest from 3 others that know me. 4 x $100, thats $400 before we even walk in the door. I put about $400 in this gear. It will return better on paper than any of my amps or Les Pauls. This is what the big acts do, they get big companys to unerwrite their tours, the same can apply for you on a smaller level. One of the outfits Im talking to is a Honda shop, he may give us bike gear to give away as prizes at gigs. Believe me if you can give some prize, bottle of Champagne, Yagar anything, people will naturally like you.

Once again think outside the box, have fun and get rich. Well maybe not rich, but my hobby playing music will be paying for itself and putting some extra cash in mine and my bandmates pockets.

So get off the couch and get busy.

Good advice and suggestions bro!

George over the last year Ive talked on here about things we are doing and now Im showing people what we are doing. We are getting some serious buzz in our area. The above club if you walked in the door, they would offer you $200 to $300 dollars to start with and then you might get $400 if the crowd liked you. We are going around that and making 3 to 4 times what the local bands get out of this particular club. I shocked the guy when I said I want the door, I explained youve got nothing to lose. Your not out anything if I dont bring people. A lot of places that we are playing wont do this but if they will we can score big. There is a risk cause there are off nights everywhere. But using my formula I think we will beat the odds some.

The videos going were a big hit, and you might say I cant afford to do that. Well Im talking to a couple of companys about flashing advertisements during our gigs for $50 to $100 a pop. One of the companys is my own so I know Ill have one happening soon and Ive got interest from 3 others that know me. 4 x $100, thats $400 before we even walk in the door. I put about $400 in this gear. It will return better on paper than any of my amps or Les Pauls. This is what the big acts do, they get big companys to unerwrite their tours, the same can apply for you on a smaller level. One of the outfits Im talking to is a Honda shop, he may give us bike gear to give away as prizes at gigs. Believe me if you can give some prize, bottle of Champagne, Yagar anything, people will naturally like you.

Once again think outside the box, have fun and get rich. Well maybe not rich, but my hobby playing music will be paying for itself and putting some extra cash in mine and my bandmates pockets.

So get off the couch and get busy.

Never even thought of putting commercials on the screen, JW! Good way to make bucks, man. That's as good or better than getting a sponsor, yet you do all the selling with a few seconds of screen time. Great way to make the equipment pay for itself. Yep, a cpl seconds talking to a local biz, take a pic, put it in the program & you're done. Wow! Easy money once the band is established. Way cool, JW.

Damn JW, sounds like you have a good plan..as shocking as that may be in this day and age. lol

John, you keep working with that kind of vison you may well get rich too.
I wonder if I could get away with shots of the communion wine.