This email is intended for you home studio producers that also play live shows. I've figured that most of my audience are musicians with home studios that produce their own music, not necessarily other bands so I feel like this information is pertinent.

​​​​​​​Also, it's a funny personal story and has some embarrassing pictures of me so if you don't play live, at least get a chuckle out of the first image below ;)

One of the most common struggles musicians have is getting more gigs.

Playing live is really fun and once you start gigging regularly it actually becomes quite addictive.

Addictive in the feel good fun way, not the strung out on heroin on the bathroom floor kind of way.

You might find that it's hard to get a gig in your town. Maybe nobody responds to your email or you don't have an "in" anywhere.

Or maybe you've been playing live for a while but you find it hard to make enough money to make your addiction sustainable.

Again, in that feel good kind of way, not the up for days on meth kind of way.

(Btw...I have a lot of lawyer friends that are public defenders that tell me addiction stories. These are not personal experiences!)

But I digress.

What I do know about is playing live.

I've been playing live music since I was about 15 years old which, or more than half of my entire life.

I've played Scandinavian alt-metal at tiny dive bars in Iceland.​​​​​​​Here's a picture if you don't believe me:

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I've been a frontman in a folk-rock group.

I've also been a touring bass player in an alt-country-western band.

And all along I've been gigging. Playing gigs big and small.

Tiny venues in Tucson.

This was a $250 gig.

Auditoriums in Austin below, and a big hall in Alaska [video]

And everywhere in between.

But what I enjoy most is sharing my experiences so that people can experience the thrill of gigging themselves.

Which is why I wrote Get More Gigs: The Essential Guide to Booking, Performing and Making Money From Gigs as an Independent Musician.

It's my step by step system I've used to get more gigs than I can count from the last half of my life.

And you can get it for less than a fancy coffee drink from Starbucks.

Click here to check it out.

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