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What was your highest paying gig? I had a couple, "several years back", that really stood out!,we wont talk about the lowest paying ones.

This is my BEST WEEK. Monday: Nashville Now TV show, Tuesday: another Tv taping featuring Farons album on Step One. Wed. - Sat. Branson' While in Branson two nites were recorded for a live album. This weeks income was in the neighborhood of 2500.00$. Without a doubt my best week ever. PS: This does not include the 30.00$ I made at Gabes on Sunday. Richard

My highest was a New Years Eve party and payed $1200.00 a man.
Ricky

$1000 for a Johnny Bush/Willie Nelson "Legends of Country Music" show on TNN back in 1994. Out of 17 musicians, I was the only Union member, so I was leader on the date. Otherwise, it would have been $500.

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Herb!!! I got short changed then...I only got $375 for that show!!! They "Mickey Roed" Me!!!!!!LMAO

Scott

Being a "hobby" musician, the only gig I have ever been paid for, I drove from Arlington, Tx. to Kilgore, Tx., (approximately 100 miles) played about an hour and a half and drove home. The pay was $25.00.

Scott
The $1K was gross, after the taxes were withheld, it was more like $800. So you weren't "'Roe'd' hard and put up wet," so to speak.

Ain't too many gigs where I get paid more than Johnny Bush, though! It does occasionally pay to be a Union member.

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My "Milleneum" NYE gig @ $1500 + tips....which seemed great at the time, until I found out how much the bandleader/agent made(who was a total hack musically BTW)...That !@#$%^ "businessman" made more than the whole rest of the band combined!!! Am I whining?

Can I include the cost of free drinks and peanuts in what I got paid?
Pat

The movie "Lost Boys", 5 days, $10k.

News Years Eve one year I got $225.00. My first paying job I ever played I got $15.00 a night and all the sodas I wanted. I figured I'd made the big time. And a free cheeseburger too, if I wanted one. I think that's a pretty good paying job!! I loved it.

Joan Cox

My next door neighbor gave me $25 to stop playing Saturday night. Does this count?
kevin

$1500. Was an awful gig, but I'd like a few more of 'em from time to time.
BB

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New Years Eve a couple of years ago at the Big Spring CC, Big Spring, TX, we made 450.00 each. We bid the same gig the next year for $25.00 more per man and lost it...

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The last several NYE gigs I made $400+. Thats OK the way I see it for a 7 peice local band.

$400 apiece, 5 piece band, = $2000.00. This was a for a wedding in 1999. It was actually kind of an easy gig and they threw in a 4-course dinner for all of us and our spouses.

Tim R.

Wow...you guys are gonna ruin the whole "You can makes tens of dollars playing steel" tradition at this rate!

Lem

One time, in over 40 years of playing (something) I made $500 on a NYE gig a few years back. I recently made a wopping $16.00 for a short nite outside job...and hade to pay for my diet coke and hot dog!!.But what the heck..it's the enjoyment I get JUST to play

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Someone needs to start a post of
"The most a gig ever COST you to play".

$2k, for a live album we did w/Janie at Billy Bob's last year. Ummmm, never did get released as the producer went belly-up!!

I played the 37th annual striptease convention, it didn't pay much, but the scenery was impressive

$3.000 for 3 minutes on TV....also will be getting another $2.000 for author's rights at the end of the year for that same appearance.

In Spain I am a big fish in a little pond...it's great.

Jeremy Williams
Gandia Valencia
Spain