From david turgeon Sent Mon, May 10th 1999, 15:21
From david turgeon Sent Mon, May 10th 1999, 15:21
> Okay. So I guess this sounds very backslapping like I'm congratulating > myself on some newfound power (about which I have no delusions, really). > But really, I'm just wondering - would anyone out there just drop things > and go do a freeish show for the joy or exposure of it? I'm not trying to > troll for artists (the next event is on the 29th, so there's really no > time) but just to see what everyone else would do. playing for free is fun, so long as you don't do it all the time, or for the rest of your life. one major advantage i can think of is that it leaves you with a lot more freedom to improvise & try things which you wouldn't do if you were paid & had to go with a certain genre to please a certain crowd, etc. the fact of the matter is, a lot of idm could fall in the "difficult music" category & as such finding a public for it is all the much harder, but it can be done. if this means booking a few free gigs (so long as the gig is cheap & that the producer is fair enough to share payment if entries are better than expected), then so be it. but i don't think it would be responsible to book, say, a free tour, or to ask a dj to spin every week for months for no payment. oh well. my 2 cents is that i personally didn't care much for the money on the few gigs i've played; just being onstage was thrilling enough an experience. but maybe if i did that every other day i'd start getting a bit more cynical about it. :) -- david turgeon at http://www.notype.com