weatherbill
New member
Here's mine. This requires patience. First, you get the totally commited band Members. Anyone who wants to be a band whore and play with everyone else, kick em out fast. Once you have the band, get tight, no gigs till you're tight......you have to have great songs with great hooks...... oh yeah, get the music industry crap out of your band member's fantasizing heads.....ok, now you offer free gigs at frat house parties. This is your ticket into getting a fan base. You tell 'em, the first gig is free, no strings attached,but the second one is for 1k or 2k (frat houses have $ for such events), possibly they'll have you back, but if not, play the frat house down the street. Go to the next collage town over and play their frat houses. Do this for a year and every weekend you can for a year. Now get a web page up and running on your band. Collect as many emails as you can and addresses you can for post card updates. This is an absolutely sure way to build a fan base. Now you can start playing clubs and have people show up. Word spreads quick if your'e hot! If you're not, then either your style sucks or you have no hook.
Sell CD's at your frat house shows and stickers and whatever else you can. Again, after the first 6 months, kick the industry crap out of your band member's heads. The industry "opportunities" will destroy your band comrodery and most likely, burn your former band member.
Most of all, have alot of fun. You won't have to call the collage radio station to play your songs. One of your fans at a frat house will call it in and if you're hot, a bunch will call it in. And now, you're off to the races and you have a local or regional buzz going on. Once you have this buzz, you can now live off your music. Now some small industry cats are gonna come your way. You don't need them. You got the thing going yourself. But a big cat will come your way and now that you have a regional or local buzz going, you can now have some negotiating power if your choose to go that way. My advice is hold out. You don't need to sign the dotted line. You are making a living at doing what you love. Don't let industry ruin it. I could add alot more, but this is the jist of getting it going. Any advice or a better plan or uncomplicated addatives are welcomed. Now let's hear your plan.
Sell CD's at your frat house shows and stickers and whatever else you can. Again, after the first 6 months, kick the industry crap out of your band member's heads. The industry "opportunities" will destroy your band comrodery and most likely, burn your former band member.
Most of all, have alot of fun. You won't have to call the collage radio station to play your songs. One of your fans at a frat house will call it in and if you're hot, a bunch will call it in. And now, you're off to the races and you have a local or regional buzz going on. Once you have this buzz, you can now live off your music. Now some small industry cats are gonna come your way. You don't need them. You got the thing going yourself. But a big cat will come your way and now that you have a regional or local buzz going, you can now have some negotiating power if your choose to go that way. My advice is hold out. You don't need to sign the dotted line. You are making a living at doing what you love. Don't let industry ruin it. I could add alot more, but this is the jist of getting it going. Any advice or a better plan or uncomplicated addatives are welcomed. Now let's hear your plan.