by daftparagon | Aug 30, 2013 | Band Life, Guitar Store Gospel, Passion & Self Hate
This is a continuation of the “Why Your Band Sucks” series, chronicling common reasons bands fail and what to do about them. Click here for part 1. By rough count, Lennon & McCartney wrote 203 Beatles songs. With just over 140 of them being one of...
by daftparagon | Aug 28, 2013 | Band Life, Live Music
The other day, several of the folks at Reddit had an aneurism over this post. The major issue is a long standing point of contention in the music world. The idea of club owners taking advantage of musicians. Generally this is “pay to play” or maybe...
by daftparagon | Aug 27, 2013 | Band Life, Guitar Store Gospel, Passion & Self Hate
Preface/edit: Got a lot of feedback about this and wanted to point out that I’m not advocating pay-to-play as a good system. It’s terrible. And I’m writing from the band perspective, I don’t own a club. I’ve been subjected to this...