This is such a wrong statement. Not wrong as in false, but just misleading and ignorant. Each "act" has to get a start and every genre does it differently. Every genre has it's own common protocol from beginning to end. While playing the same clubs works for some, it doesn't work for the others.
I also think it is a weird statement, or maybe misleading, or maybe true but based on only a certain genre or location...
I used to be in a band that would get invited once or twice a month to play in a city about 5 hours away. I always thought it was weird and wondered if people would just get sick of us, but it didn't happen, in fact, the shows just kept getting bigger and we kept selling more and more stuff... so, maybe as an overall statistic, it is true, but it definitely isn't the case universally. I guess it wasn't always the same venue we were playing, but I don't see how the venue would be an issue over the city, as the same crowd was showing up more or less no matter what venue it was.
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I also think it is a weird statement, or maybe misleading, or maybe true but based on only a certain genre or location...
I used to be in a band that would get invited once or twice a month to play in a city about 5 hours away. I always thought it was weird and wondered if people would just get sick of us, but it didn't happen, in fact, the shows just kept getting bigger and we kept selling more and more stuff... so, maybe as an overall statistic, it is true, but it definitely isn't the case universally. I guess it wasn't always the same venue we were playing, but I don't see how the venue would be an issue over the city, as the same crowd was showing up more or less no matter what venue it was.