Members minimoog Posted December 26, 2012 Members Share Posted December 26, 2012 You would hade more high paying Gig's 0r more gigs if you had what gear??P.S you can include a Joke if you want but just don't forguet the original question happy H . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted December 27, 2012 Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 A manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members minimoog Posted December 27, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 best reponse I have ever seen on HC . I consider you now a superior human Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members theGman Posted December 27, 2012 Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 A female singer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MuzikB Posted December 27, 2012 Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 A contract with a label. A different location. Less distractions and more time. I think most or even everybody here has all the gear they need. Cats in England are making albums with Logic on an iMac. It's just other lifestyle crap that gets in the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members girevik Posted December 27, 2012 Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 Originally Posted by MuzikB Less distractions and more time.I think most or even everybody here has all the gear they need. Cats in England are making albums with Logic on an iMac. It's just other lifestyle crap that gets in the way. Yup. All you need besides the gear is more time (making music instead of starting 50 threads a month here) and some kind of image gimmick like a silly helmet (deadmau5), silly hairdo (Skrillex), etc. if you're not a cute girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cresshead Posted December 27, 2012 Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 more than new gear, a good singer/front person/entertainer get's you more bookings and better paydays. also...if you have a drummer...a really good one can really lift a band's status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the_big_e Posted December 27, 2012 Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 Talent but I have not seen it on sale anywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Piano Whore Posted December 27, 2012 Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 I need a pair of new, virginal eardrums. Playing music in my condition is like being the proverbial one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. Although I still do kick the ass, on occasion (sometimes you kick the ass, sometimes the ass kicks YOU). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted December 27, 2012 Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 Originally Posted by theGman A female singer. So true! I just quit a country band led by three female vocal/instrumentalists plus myself on bass and a male drummer. Previously I was in a blues/swing band with a female vocalist and long ago a top 40 band with two females up front. All these bands consistently worked more often and for better money than other bands I've been in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members koolkat Posted December 27, 2012 Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 A car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JimboKeys Posted December 27, 2012 Members Share Posted December 27, 2012 A 20-year-old body again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members minimoog Posted December 28, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 We are talking about gear, but does answers make cents and are valid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave Weiser Posted December 28, 2012 Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 I humbly submit that you are asking the wrong question. Remove the word "gear" and replace with any of the following: Skill, training, education, background, discipline, courtesy, experience and/or talent. In my own experience, I have yet to meet a brilliant player or composer who cannot find work for lack of cool gear. What I have encountered more than once is a brilliant player or composer who has difficulty getting gigs due to poor communication skills, bad manners or a lack of common sense. Gear = tools for doing a job. Usually people who are good at a job manage to obtain adequate tools for performing the job. In this day and age anyone can afford decent tools for creating music, even if at first you have to earn the money doing something other than music. A few nights working as a waiter or bartender per week for a few months should allow anyone to afford a cheap Dell laptop, a DAW and/or an affordable keyboard. (Yes you might have to do that waitering as a 2nd job, but I can attest from firsthand experience it is quite doable.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members minimoog Posted December 28, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 Yes my question was about "gear" P.S Gulp, the one and only Dave Weiser? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ed A. Posted December 28, 2012 Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 Back in the 80's, I had the mistaken idea that the more gear I bought, the more gigs I'd get. What I actually needed was more confidence, connections and talent.Some people I knew back then were even worse. I knew a guy who worked in a local music store who bought a large Sony automated console and a 2" 24 track recorder, an impressive selection of mics, racks of processing gear and piles of synths, mostly on credit. The problem was that he put all this stuff in his dad's basement rec room with a seven foot ceiling. That, and the fact that he had no musical talent whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members keybdwizrd Posted December 28, 2012 Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 Originally Posted by Ed A. Back in the 80's, I had the mistaken idea that the more gear I bought, the more gigs I'd get. What I actually needed was more confidence, connections and talent. Very true. Add knowledge and skill.Back in the 80's, I knew a guy who owned endless stacks of keyboards - his apartment looked like a musical instrument store. He could never get any gigs, or get hooked up with a band, or anything. The problem was, he simply didn't know how to play keyboards very well, if at all. It was as if he thought he needed to buy just ONE MORE synth and then he'd be this great keyboardist that everyone would want to work with. When I would tell him to sell all but two of his keyboards, learn those, take a few lessons, and devote the next year to practicing, he'd look at me like I was an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members n9ne Posted December 28, 2012 Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 There's no question that we tend to obsess over our next gear purchase....as if that one piece (or multiple pieces) of gear will be the key to a higher level of consciousness or whatever. And then when we get it, we're happy for a little while....but then we're over it, and obsessing about that next piece of "got-to-have" gear. It's like crack or heroin.....you might get temporary satisfaction from one hit, but then it's all about getting the next fix....and then the next one....and so on. This isn't just keyboards or recording gear; in fact, it's not even limited to musicians....it applies to every walk of life. We've all known "that guy".....the guy who always has to have the hottest, newest technology....the coolest phone....the biggest TV.....the fastest car.....whatever. But enough of my soapbox. In direct response to the OP, and the gear that would result in higher-paying gigs....if you're looking to maximize your income opportunities, I'd recommend that you not worry so much about instrumentation and shift your focus to PA and lights. The fact is, people would rather see a band of middling talent that looks and sounds great, as opposed to a band that emphasizes musicality and musicianship over production values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members minimoog Posted December 28, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 For me there is some gear i would really really need . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members synthetica Posted December 28, 2012 Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 A desire to play paid gigs !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members girevik Posted December 28, 2012 Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 Originally Posted by keybdwizrd Very true. Add knowledge and skill.Back in the 80's, I knew a guy who owned endless stacks of keyboards - his apartment looked like a musical instrument store. He could never get any gigs, or get hooked up with a band, or anything. The problem was, he simply didn't know how to play keyboards very well, if at all. It was as if he thought he needed to buy just ONE MORE synth and then he'd be this great keyboardist that everyone would want to work with. When I would tell him to sell all but two of his keyboards, learn those, take a few lessons, and devote the next year to practicing, he'd look at me like I was an idiot. Knowledge and skill in working with electronic gear maybe (synth programming, sequencing, sampling, etc.), not so much playing keyboards with classical chops. Skrillex, Tiesto, deadmau5, etc. aren't making their millions as piano/organ virtuosos.I have much respect for traditional keyboard skills like yours, but I'm just calling it as I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Originally Posted by minimoog For me there is some gear i would really really need . OK, why leave us in suspense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members minimoog Posted December 29, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 trumpet,violin,a very good wireles midi controller,gran piano,a very powerfull Laptop etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Pro Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 I bought a Hammond SK2 last February and I credit it with increasing my gigs. I have synths and pianos but when I took my "pocket b3" to some jam sessions it immediately raised a lot of eyebrows. My sit-in calls increased and I now play with two bands regularly that I did not play with a year ago. There is a lot of keyboards that simulate organ sounds but there is a difference in perception by fellow musos when it says "Hammond" on the front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 I never got turned down for a gig because I didn't have a trumpet, but I don't play trumpet anyway I did start getting more gigs when I told bandleaders I could play string bass as well as bass guitar but that was back before the big swing music scare of the 90s. 95% of playing string bass is owning one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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