[Dixielandjazz] Show bands was live vs. recorded music

[Robert Ringwald]

Steve, 

Teach the kid how to plug in the wires also...

--Bob Ringwald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Heist" <steveheist at earthlink.net>
To: "Bob Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Show bands was live vs. recorded music


> Larry wrote:
> (snip) The guys that are trying to make a living here are really taking it 
> in the
> neck and if it weren't for private students most of them would be flipping
> burgers. (snip)
> 
> Larry and all musicians who want to work...,
> 
> Hi all,
> What is required here is a rethink!  The days of playing 5-6 nights a week 
> in a bar are OVER!  Most bars nowadays are owned, not by individuals who 
> KNOW the bar business, backward and forward, but corporations (who are the 
> first to cut live music from their budgets) and/or "entrepeneurs" who know 
> absolutly NOTHING about the bar business, they've just got extra money and 
> want to open a bar, and are usually flying blind.
> 
> Here's the question to ask yourselves:  Is it better to go for a weekly gig 
> (now usually only 2 nights a week) OR go for the "private party" jobs, which 
> usually pay MUCH better?
> 
> Up here in Montreal, I work right now with 1) a caterer who has GREAT 
> contacts and lots of work for me and 2) the owners of a ski resort bed and 
> breakfast that love my music and also keep me busy...
> 
> I have one great advantage with my location, Quebec...  It seems people up 
> here, when they have an event, like the music to last the whole party.  My 
> caterer called last week and told me (and this is NOT unusual up here) that 
> one of his clients wanted the music this Saturday to go from 5:00 in the 
> late afternoon until 1:00 AM!  8 HOURS!!!  I quoted him my usual price of 
> $100 an hour... (That would be $800 for the night...)  He called back two 
> days later and told me the client said the price was fine and asked if I 
> could start at 4:00PM!!!  Pardon me, but with money like that, who needs the 
> fricking bar/restaurant owners???  I probably will NEVER again play in a 
> restaurant/bar again!  My only problem now is schlepping all my equipment 
> back and forth, but I've solved that in a way.  If I can continue like this 
> and expand my single gigs, I'll just hire some kid - pay him $50 a night to 
> be my roadie - all he has to do is carry in and out the equipment...  then 
> all I have to do is connect the wires!!!
> 
> By the way, I haven't flipped a burger in 45 years!!!  (except in my own 
> backyard :-)
> 
> ALL the Very Best,
> Steve 
> 
> 
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