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Hi All,

My band, Swift Kick, is playing after the Brooks & Dunn show on Sept. 8th at Konocti Harbor Resort in Kelseyville CA. and I'm looking for either a pedal steel player or a fiddle player who can play with us cold, no rehearsals.

We're doing about half country (mostly newer) and the other half country rock/honkytonk. It'll be a fun show.

It's 9pm-1:30am and I can pay $75 and a shared room at the resort.

Brooks & Dunn will sell out a 5000 seater so it should be a big show. I have set lists available.

If anyone is interested or knows of anyone please email me.

Thanks
Jay Johnson

You're playing for 5,000 people and $75 is all it pays! Things must be really tough in California!

This is one of those exposure gigs and of course Brooks and Dunn are getting con$$iderably more expo$$ure than we are.

I don't think I'd be out there playing if I were trying to get rich though.

Jay

One of the bands I play with opened for Alabama at the Texas State Fair a couple years ago. We got $1500 and I thought we were underpaid. Maybe not.

You sound like my wife.

I know, we play better paying gigs than this also, but this is what this gig is.

Now, I'm hoping merchandise sales will be good.

Jay

Exposure? You can die from exposure!!!

That is pretty cheap...

try to live on Exposure, were you gona go with this exposure?? i would like to do this job, but let me see, 5 hrs to job, I drive a F-250 V-10, shared room, I buy food, but the kicker is a fiddle player can do the job same as steel, I don't think so, they do work cheaper Ok let the fiddle player have it..

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No it ain't the highest-paying gig but I'm sure I remember last December a post where Paul Franklin said he did a couple gigs around Thankgiving and Christmas, one payed him $45 and the other $75...

"Star" artists pay $1000.00 per gig ($1K) for a steel man. I am seeking no employment of any kind, but it's a shame to go to all the trouble you do: all the years it took to "get good," travel to gig; set up; play; tolerate the audience (in some cases); pack up travel or get a hotel! Wow! Garbage collectors make more! If I were in that position, I'd get something on the side and play only when one could afford me. HJ

Come on guys, quit slamming Jay. He posts on here offering work - and you act if you are insulted. If you don't want the gig, then don't reply. It's that simple.
Gary

Jay,
I sent you an email.
-- Marc

Sorry for butting in, my bad!

Hey Jay, thanks for the offer. If I was anywhere near you I'd be on it. I certainly understand why alot of players would'nt be interested, but the only reason I went to all the trouble to try to "get good" was so I could play. Thanks again.

My apologies!! To each his own! - HJ

This gig is Sunday night, after the concert. I think it's more like your typical casino gig. The money is about right, IMHO.

I'd do it if it wasn't Sunday. That's just too late for me - I crash early on Sunday.

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Jay....this will teach you the audacity of offering someone a job......apparently everyone is turning down work on a regular basis..... Don't let it discourage you my friend.....
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And to think, all these years I've been working for less than $1000 a gig! Boy, do I feel stupid!

I'm just glad to know that I can be a part of an industry so consistent that I'm still making the same money I made in 1977.

Where can you make what you made in 1977?

I don't think we took up this instrument for the big bucks we planned to make but for the sheer love of this very selfish, possessive man-made four-legged Rube Goldberg contraption that has competed for the honor in causing more divorces than Jim Beam. Seventy five is more money than staying home for nothing and watching TV Land.

I wasn't making $75 per gig in 1977. It was more like $40 for local gigs.

$75 plus lodging isn't bad for this part of the country. It's about par. I'd do it if I didn't have to go to work on Monday.

Find anyone yet, Jay?

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I think I've decided to do this one myself. I did get a couple responses but I do understand that it's not much money. It just means that I have to work that much harder switching between my tele and the pedal steel along with singing lead and backups. I can do it but it's a lot of work.

Hey, all you high rollers out there. If you need a lead guitar/pedal steel/trumpet player/singer, I'll take all the $1000 gigs you can send my way.

Thanks
Jay

Seventy five bucks? This has got to be a joke!

Here we go again...

Jay,

I feel bad now about the remarks I made regarding the gig. I do work for $75 and less locally and if I was in your area I would be honored to work with you as well. I guess I'm just frustrated that old ex-touring pros like me can no longer make a living in the biz.