Members lyricpoet Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I have never had the pleasure of putting my music to CD or vinyl. My current experimental/noise/electronica group (UVFIC- Upper Valley Free Improvisors' Collective) is contemplating a LIMITED RELEASE 1 SIDED 7" 45 rpm with full color sleeve. Heh heh...one song of obliterating noise for $3. Back to reality- and hence the question. I certainly have- for 7 years! However it wasn't all bad so I voted "occasionally....". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tylytle Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crescent Seven Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 No. But I live in this magical place where I put up a "Bass Player Available" ad on Craigslist, and in a matter of hours I have several dozen people on my doorstep with kneepads on. A few years ago my wife and I discussed moving to Billings, MT. One of the "cons" on my list is that I'd have to join a country band, or not play any gigs. C7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darkstorm Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 No, never. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roguetitan Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thumper Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I play a couple songs I don't care for in my current band. Every one else wants to do them, and I'm a team player, so oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members basste Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 As i'm not a profeesional, no. Perhaps two or three tunes that i don't really like in the set list, but none i hate. But if i was pro, i would do it very often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mytola Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 If I earn good money from it, yes. If not, no chance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xOriginalNinjax Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I'd have to make a LOT. Seriously. Around 500-1500 a gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tomwm Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 The band im in has people in with different music taste.We all choose a few songs each so it is fair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members no-logic Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I'd have to make a LOT. Seriously. Around 500-1500 a gig.+1 to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members One Bad Monkey Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I was in a country cover band for about two months. Hated the music (it was all the poppy country stuff), loved getting $250 a night. There were a couple of tunes in my old rock band that I absolutely hated, but the other four members liked. So, we played them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Westsailor Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 When I was a carded pro I did it all the time. It's mainly why I quit playing (that and my new wifes family alla time asking 'So... when you gonna get a real job?'). While the work was steady and the money was good it just got to be a job and not 'music' anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 There is no music I hate, so I can't rally say. I would definitely play music that I didn't love though. My plan after UBP runs it's course is to find a nice lucrative cover band of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marc G Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I'm not a pro..... so no..... if I had to eat and music as my only way of paying the bill....HELL {censored}IN' YEAH I'd do it!!.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flatcat Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 Sure. $250 a wedding, plus mileage, plus overtime, many weekends a year, for the past 5 years. Very few of those songs are enjoyable. In every band I've ever been in, there are songs I've really not enjoyed playing at all. We used to do "Five Long Years" in this one blues band I was in, and the drummer used to roll his eyes and look at me and say "Five Long Minutes". Used to crack me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members johnny6644 Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 Sure, as long as I had some sort of side project/recording thing to be creative in the way I want to be creative. But not if it's Aryan Nations thrashcore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I'd play only an A440 note for hours if it got me paid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JRoll Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 We don't. And while it may cost by not playing the younger clubs where all they want is 80's tunes or Nickelback/Bon Jovi, there's never a shortage of 'older' clubs that fit us like a glove asking us back. The wineries, private parties and corporate gigs where the ones doing the booking seem to have a lot more cash to throw around don't hurt either. We try to stay away from the standard covers in the older genre you hear at every club as well. Thinking if we can do this successfully with slightly more obscure material that we love, why not keep doing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dark Slide Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 If it was paying well? Certainly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lyricpoet Posted September 21, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I'd play only an A440 note for hours if it got me paid. Join a "drone" band and it's possible! There is a whole subset of this scene related to Merzbow/Noise Music! Incredible, ain't it?:freak: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lyricpoet Posted September 22, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 22, 2007 As i'm not a profeesional, no. Perhaps two or three tunes that i don't really like in the set list, but none i hate. But if i was pro, i would do it very often. Dude, if you're doing gigs and getting paid you are a professional- by its very definition. I hate the term "semi-pro"- it's as if you do only 2/3 gigs a month that you can't be lumped in with those that do it for a full-time living. That whole idea must've started at the Guitar Forum(s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sixis9 Posted September 22, 2007 Members Share Posted September 22, 2007 If you live in Columbus Ohio and you are a bass player you'll always play music you hate just to have a gig. Columbus was the quaylude capital of the world in the 80's and the effects are still showing. Wow, People are dancing lets play something slow so they leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members anothertxn Posted September 22, 2007 Members Share Posted September 22, 2007 I play music because I love that particular method of expressing my voice. I have no interest in playing music I'm not overwhelmingly satisfied with and proud of, and I'm certainly not willing to stand in front of people playing songs I don't believe in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shnoogumz Posted September 22, 2007 Members Share Posted September 22, 2007 I don't play in cover bands, and I don't generally write stuff for my own bands that I don't wanna play... so no the closest I've come to playing the stuff I hate is just filling in for friends of mine in other bands when they can't play. if I'm not a full-time member of the band, I'm not gonna argue with the setlist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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