Monday, December 06, 2004

Considering playing live, continued...

So playing live, this is very different from the performance in the home studio followed by mixing/tweaking/production, etc. I've played live before, both free and paid gigs, and not just one nighters but mostly one nighters. I have never been in a band that had a full support crew.

It looks like fun, and mostly it is a really fun thing to do while performing. When things go wrong, it can be weird-- not necessarily "bad", but it can be bad.

Setting up is not all that bad, tearing down can be a real grind.


The best way to get gigs is to know someone who is gigging, particularly someone who is doing multiple shows in your general area. There is a site that enables musicians to network that I've recently signed up for, I need to upload a track and figure out how their exchange system works.

3 Comments:

Blogger orestn said...

Hi Utenzil, I see it's been a while since you've posted. I'm curious to know how things are going for you with the musician's network.

10:16 PM  
Blogger orestn said...

Oops, I made a booboo. I thought I had saved a link to your blog but I had actually saved a link to your December 6 posting. Then everytime I checked to see if you'd written anything new, it looked like you hadn't posted anything since then.

3:44 PM  
Blogger Utenzil said...

Well unbind that ancient link my friend, then Leap into the future and see what you've missed :-)

2:18 PM  

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