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I "auditioned" once to play at a place. They said, "We're doing a charity event. You can play for three hours and put out a tip jar. We'll feed you and if it goes well, we'll book you for more gigs."
I played for three hours, and they kept telling me to turn down. I finally just turned off the PA and played acoustically. They still said, "turn it down." When I was done, I told the manager that I was supposed to at least get a meal out of it. He said, "Sorry, the owner's not here and I don't know anything about that. Besides, the kitchen is closed." The only other time I auditioned, it was totally unplugged for the manager and a few guests. I played 3 or 4 songs and he said, "That's great; Can you play Thursdays?" and I've played there about 40 times since then.
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I've been lucky for never having to audition at a venue. At a new venue we have accepted a discounted rate but usually they were happy enough that they paid our full rate anyway.
One place held open mics and they would supposedly call bands back that they liked to book them. We played there, they seemed happy, and we never got a call. We were busy enough so we thought ah, whatever! Anyway...best of luck with the audition! |
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I was in a band until several months ago. We never did an unpaid audition. If anything, we'd invite someone over to another venue to hear us play, or stop by on practice night (no one ever did).
Not sure what the standard practice is for dinner/happy hour music though. |
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I have a friend who is a magician, and he has done something very similar - video capture various individual "tricks" and the audience reactions, then host the vids on his web site. It's been very successful for him, he emails (or mails) links to his website home page, and the section on performance segments.
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I set up a camcorder on a tripod out of the way at the venue. This way I didn't have to rely on phone video of questionable quality. I archived the full performances which make great mementos. |
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Hello all. OP here. Sorry for the ambiguity in my question. The "audition" is just with the manager and whatever staff is there and he said just a couple of songs that best show my style. My question about time was if I did get the gig. And thanks sooooo much for all the brilliant comments and advice. I'll let ya'll know how it goes soon. Kent
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