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- Contact Cash Farrar
- Funny Things Happen
- Advice for the sound guy
- Diode Laser Gloves
- Solo gig
- High School Jazz gig
- Hooray! New Band!!
- Dancin' Fools
- My personal best.
- tempo problem with my drummer
- Pit Bands/Pit Orchestras
- Stage Fright!!
- Longest wait for gig $?
- Drummers and Trumpets ARRRGGGG!!!!!!!!!!
- In a 4-6 person band, how do you divvy up the gig $$$?
- Yearly salary for musician.
- Cruise Ship Saxophonist
- Tenor in Overhead Compartment?
- as commercial as possible...
- group instrumentation
- wedding band gig = poke in eye with sharp stick...
- gig etiquette
- demanding/begging for gigs (the nerve!)
- What MAKES money?
- music resume
- Vegas??
- chord progression copyright
- Old-Timer's Weekend
- IEM's
- broke spring at gig
- wedding gig price.
- What's your gigrig?
- What's in your gig bag?
- Donna Lee / Indiana Key
- The crappiest gig of them all!
- BALLROOM DANCE GIGS
- Getting up to speed professionally- dealing with gig offers
- Company looking for Cruise Ship Sax Players
- Looking for sub work in Annapolis, MD and surrounding
- A Different Sax Gig
- Played a Triple
- Ladies and Germs, your attention please...
- how much for a musical?
- Sax mic effects
- Jack of all trades..
- Demo Tape Ideas?
- sick of being a sideman
- Pro's only please
- Ever get a gig via the internet?
- Plooop
- Careful what you ask for...
- New Years Eve
- Playing the BB King Lounge at Foxwoods Casino
- Advice for first gig?
- New Year's Eve Reports
- No carry-on musical instruments on America West
- need a player
- How do i get started?
- Sacred Heart Cultural Center
- many gigs these days?
- Great gig friday Okay gig saturday
- Oh the horror!!!!!!
- Going to get 1099ed for the first time. Checks in my name.
- Busking (street musican) anyone?
- Playing at local Blues Jam for 1st time. Any Tips?
- What should I have to aware of on or before the day of a gig
- I'm "retiring"
- The Real Book
- stiffed at a blues club
- Boring myself with Simple Blues Shuffles I, IV, V
- High School group working on gigs
- ****** music scene
- When every reed you try at a gig quickly warps??
- Broadway Musicians
- High school gig pay?
- Share a Story on what shaped your playing
- Santana interview - Elvin Jones passing...
- Starting out
- What to play?
- Getting more gigs
- Stamina for solo gig
- Gig night preparations
- Busking South California
- Hong Kong tour
- dinner music advice
- Political Fundraiser
- Worst Agency
- service bands?
- Baptism By Fire!!
- Any "Windjammers" here?
- Punishment Tunes
- Hourly rate for playing on someones CD?
- Chicago Area Agent
- getting a band together
- Tampa Bay/Clearwater
- Backing Tracks?
- When did you start?
- Rant and anger!!!
- What makes studio musician different from musician?
- Not allowed to use a mic.
- Sax Pro's (unknown Genius)
- Sax Giants (unknown Genius)
- Rudresh Mahanthappa
- Working Session Musicians please help!
- How important is Image when making it as a pro?
- Do you have your instruments insured?
- Do anyone use a guard for their bottom teeth?
- Nice gig, nice place, nice sound
- Work Union live better ??
- Getting work
- Jazz Club Owners
- Cashed In my Chips in Vegas
- Bad Gigs!!
- Musician Union Acts
- Played My first gig!
- Are any of you Pros getting a smooth jazz tone out of a Buescher???
- How to sound like a horn section
- Help with colleges in the states
- Reno Jazz
- My Proposal...
- What do you do during set breaks?
- How long do the pros pratcice and what?
- Which Real Book??
- Anybody gigging tonight in or around SF??
- Nervous Man, Nervous
- Tips on playing Avante Guard Music
- Tell me If you can think of someone else
- license to play in public in NYC
- Call him up ?
- Coolest gig
- Too insane or not?
- Ear damage
- Terry Ogolini - Tenor Saxman
- Bizarre gig stories..
- LA Jam Sessions
- anyone got a nice recording of them playing SSB??
- Air Travel Logistics
- How much to charge for horn arrangements?
- Virginia Beach
- The burden of freedom
- cases for extra gear, what do you use?
- singapore
- Do you "Go For It?"
- Need a sub for me tonight 9-16 in Kenwood Ca
- Chicago Jams
- Ziti. A working musician's dinner?
- Excuse Me, Excuse Me, EXCUSE ME!!!! - I'm trying to get by.
- Light/tough Baritone for salsa
- Lost My Gig Due to Licensing
- Anyone familiar with gigmasters?
- Macon, GA party band looking for a tenor sax player
- Underage gigs?
- Applauding solo
- Green Mill Jam Session
- Quality Accompaniment for Christmas Gig
- Gigging With Play Alongs
- Should I turn up with my sax?
- Pros w/ perfomance degrees
- getting in touch w NY
- This is a working sax pro???
- "It's for WHAT?"
- Shafted
- Monitor help needed
- Mitch Woods, Woo-HOO!
- Funny Sit In Story
- What Are You Playing For New Year's Eve?
- Canceling a Gig
- Doing Standards on a CD? Legality?
- Yellow Pages No More
- Best Backing Tracks?
- Trumpet Player!!
- First timers gig Caught on Tape
- Duo With Carol Beth True
- The post-gig brickwall -- solutions?
- Working with much better players.
- Best song on the street
- Is pop music ruining my jazz playing?
- Your sax needs a pollish..
- Sax Player Needed for Working D.C. Variety Band
- Looks like it's time for a Overhaul? - Bummer :(
- XM Radio,A Tax Write Off?
- Curtis Steigers playing sax
- Applause
- Computer considered a musical instrument
- What constitutes a 'professional'?
- First Gigs
- How many bari gigs do you get?
- Walked Out on A Gig For the First Time in a Long Time
- State of the gig
- Jam Session Guide
- Nightmare gigs
- For pit players--WSS and favorite shows?
- Anyone doing solo w/tracks...
- Gig Money and Taxes
- andy snitzer
- solo with tracks gear?
- How do you know ............?
- Is there such thing as a "Normal" gig?
- What do you do when...
- Pop/Rock/R&B Play list
- Buddy Rich "The Tape"
- Should I.....
- What's your "Battle Axe"?
- Question: Keys for Standards
- Anybody have a band contract format I could use?
- So Stupid
- chops fatigue
- A New Recording in the works
- Help with choice of clip-on mics
- Set lists
- URGENT Need a bari sub - west houston, TX
- How do I put the genie back in the bottle?
- Musicians + Power Tools = Bad
- Smoked In The Studio
- Sax damaged at a gig
- Lost in the Backwaters of Music?
- Stand for SKB rack case? table and stool for gigs?
- Need a sax player
- TIP JAR issues
- Is it cheating?
- The free meal
- When to start using contracts?
- Jam Night From Hell. . . and a Nice Surprise. . ..
- What is Hip?
- How do you keep tunes fresh...
- Selling CDs at the gig
- No more carry on baggage!
- Liability insurance
- Old, Bone Tired But Happy!
- Contracting a gig Forgotten all the work required.
- Anybody have any really cool gigs lately?
- What do you charge for charts/book
- Ernie Krivda, Survival, Touring, and Your Own CD
- Hired a Sax Player
- PIANO E FLAT
- Tell us about that 'heavy cat' that sat in
- Need a Session Musician "Work for Hire" Agreement
- Travelling with your Sax
- Keeping your chops up
- Greg Badolato
- Forced to play soft on a gig
- Pay for a cocktail hour (and a half)
- getting known and getting gigs
- Goofy Wedding Reception
- Anybody know Jack Stuckey?
- Bio and Studio rates?
- Anyboding gigging in SF tonight? 11/11
- NEVER eat bean chilli before a gig!!!!!
- Tell us about your first open jam session/open mic
- I need to isolate a room, HELP?!
- Funeral gigs?
- Wireless Setup
- How old were youwhen you began to "gig"
- Forced to move...
- New Years Eve Gig in D.C. area?
- Most Pivotal Career Shortcoming?
- When you are "dogged "tired and other gig themes
- Worst gig
- Sax players you have discovered through SOTW or can recommend..
- Why can't we dance?
- Sonicbids?
- Resume
- Cruise Line Showband
- Heard of Ian Ritchie?
- Tuxedo advice needed
- Funny Names for Tunes
- Most inappropriate requests at a gig
- Do you have a day gig?
- Big Phat Band Recording Contest
- What next?
- between a rock and a hard place
- Don't knock your tenor over on an out-of-town gig
- Count Basie Orchestra
- Pay, loyalty. community,etc,
- This is not a profession
- Musician's Union
- Playing to tracks?
- Jam Session Etiquette
- First Gig
- Working pros - clubdate update
- Joe Lovano's Playing a Selmer!
- What's your post-gig routine?
- Had Fun Last Night!
- Blue Wisp
- Gigging solo w/tracks
- blues jam session tunes
- Logistics help?
- Milking your audience
- Just bring your sax along.....
- Blame Game
- Looked Into The Eye of The Beast
- Playing Solo
- Rant: More reasons I dislike booking weddings
- Anybody working..?
- Tenor/Guitar Player Needed in NYC Area
- New to The Real Book
- Gig Available in Cincinnati
- Anybody played....
- Too sketchy?
- City of Angels
- Dilemma...
- Anyone up for an R&B Gig on August 25th?
- Urgent need a pro player for London Gig!! 9th Sept
- How do you handle a train wreck?
- Rocky Horror Show
- Seeking Employment
- Professional Image
- New to forum and I create and sell Pro Audio Backing Tracks
- sax player available in Los Angeles
- another crazy gig
- Ernie Watts Masterclass at sax.co.uk!
- Sexiest gig?
- Powerless
- what flute do you suggest me?
- How much do professionals get paid for gigs
- When your switching saxes at a gig how do you keep the horn in tune and reed wet?
- No Gig Tonight
- Do you fancy this gig?
- Big Gig Tonight with "A" List Jazz Players - A bit nervous.
- Tran Manh Tuan
- What Does Being Burnt-Out Look Like?
- NCL Boat gig??
- Anyone working full time ??
- Gigs I have been fired from...
- is it really possible???
- Need volunteer (non-paid) musicians (good publicity)
- Tiny spaces
- A Love Supreme Peformance, London - Friday 25th January 2008..
- Gigs on the Barter System
- December Work
- Golf Channel
- Solo w/tracks issues
- DJs with Horn Players
- New Years Eve: Who's Gigging Tonight?
- Bandstand dilemma; lesson learned
- Where do you put your horn on breaks?
- How old is your tuxedo?
- Walking the Bar
- Classical Sax in a Bar
- Damn Yankees Pit -- Sax Parts
- Musicians Portfolio!
- Words to Live By
- Money up front for arranging ?
- Short(est) notice for doing a recording?
- Saxophone a "loud" instrument?
- Whats ur worst/funniest exp on the gig?
- Stage Freight - Any advice??
- Mike Parlett
- Union or non-union?
- How Long Between Trips to the Tech?
- Starting off
- sight reading on a gig.. does it look bad if I ask for the book beforehand?
- How far can self promotion get you?
- Rehearsal dues, band dues, whatevah dues...
- Just When I Thought It Couldn't Be Done
- Hey Gang wassup from Cash
- How much to charge for a wedding gig?
- When do you know your good enough
- Newbie
- Recording Producer: What to look for
- Clip-on or mic on stand?
- Best band skits you've seen....
- First Gig in a Few Years
- Pay gig...and the IRS????
- May have messed up an opportunity.. what would you do?
- Vacancies: Glenn Miller Orchestra. Alto,Tenor, & Bari
- Stories from the road
- What would you do in my situation????
- moved
- How do you start the set?
- Gig in the rain?!
- Signing Exclusive Deal With Agent, Maybe
- One of our best performances
- Big name pros playing jazz on R&C horns
- "Shine" Hayard
- How much to charge?
- Always keep a horn in the car when you go anywhere!!
- Phew...got through tonight.
- Never knew sax players got so much work
- Has this ever happened to you?
- Graduated from college, what to do now?
- Southwest Airlines - tenor carry-on??
- Bandmates: being polite vs. being musical
- Jerry Bergonzi
- Music directors/Bandmasters...how much pay?
- "Feel" vs. "Theory"
- Went on a Cruise, new ideas, etc...
- Just landed a cruise gig - help!
- Are there really fewer jazz gigs today?
- Putting my demo together, could use some advice.
- Baker Street pro backing track- HELP
- Weirdest gig you ever did
- The EXTRA hour at the end of a wedding gig.
- And it Stoned Me Transcriptions
- Ummmm....what?
- gig in GA
- Nothing like playing out live
- Starting cost to gig
- 30 years today
- 30 years today
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