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Selling Your Band! – Gig Gab Podcast 148

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English - January 08, 2018 14:59 - 57 minutes - 26.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
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Is your band for sale? Of course it is! Otherwise you’re not getting paid. And if your band is for sale, then who is the salesperson? Listen to hear your long-time Weekend Warriors put on the relevant parts of their weekDAY hats and talk through their process for selling … […]


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Is your band for sale? Of course it is! Otherwise you’re not getting paid. And if your band is for sale, then who is the salesperson? Listen to hear your long-time Weekend Warriors put on the relevant parts of their weekDAY hats and talk through their process for selling … anything. There’s lots to learn here this week, folks, and Dave and Paul are on fire with this one!


Then it’s time to answer a question about setlists, this time focused around managing the energy of the room… both while you’re playing and while you’re not.


Chapters/Timestamps:

00:00:00 Gig Gab 148 – Monday, January 8, 2018
00:00:57 Paul’s Booking Formula
00:04:10 Looking at the summer
00:07:08 Portraying comfortable confidence
00:10:20 Booking bands at the Pro level
00:12:45 If your band is great, it’s great. Other bookings are gravy.
00:15:45 Be on alert when things are on autopilot
00:16:38 Building trust with new booking contacts
00:21:00 Leveraging the relationships of all your bandmembers
00:25:01 The value of building community
00:26:49 48 years?!?!?
00:27:58 The value of brotherly-love
00:28:25 Integrating someone new into your band

Getting ready for immediate gigs

00:29:56 Learning the back catalog
00:32:42 Adding new tunes, too!

Chart Check!

00:36:34 Record your shows
00:38:19 Dan-Driving the energy with your setlist and flow?

The Clanky Lincolns

00:40:53 The flow of the set
00:41:39 Feel out the band
00:45:58 Own your own destiny
00:47:21 Make sure to warmup!
00:49:32 Harness the energy
00:50:44 But learn the energy first!
00:52:11 Managing the breaks!
00:54:24 Learn the way the room flow

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