General Music Chat

A full-time chef, waitress or bartender is not required to bring a crowd to the venue, why should a part-time musician be required to do so?

Actually, the bar/restaurant owner DOES expect that the chef or bartender will bring in repeat customers!

A full-time chef, waitress or bartender is not required to bring a crowd to the venue, why should a part-time musician be required to do so?

Here in Chicago, at certain venues, the band has to purchase a minimal amount of tickets in advance for the performance to sell to its fans. The amount you sell will determine if you headline or getting on stage at 1pm. This is regarding part-time musician.

Bars don't care about music . . . they make their living selling alcohol.
If you only bring one fan whom drinks $100,000 in beer a night, you will be a HIT !

If your playing the bar scene your job is to sell alcohol.
It really is that simple.

Very true about the alcoholic friends!
I blew off every last friend to purge my life of alcoholics, about 35 years ago.
They were dragging me down.
Now I can just drink when I want to, instead of being expected to drink 5-6 nights a week.

A good pal of mine won't smoke weed because he says it's a gateway drug to booze. Funny how the juice won in the end. And we lost.

Talbot

Sanshouheil got it 100% right.
The last time I played a bar show was 2009. I have never had a positive experience with playing at one either. If anything the little chicken scratch we made playing that show could have gone into song writing / social media/ youtube/ or anything else to help promote us to a LARGER audience.

People go to bars to drink, not to hear new bands, even if it is a music bar.