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Al Udeen

 

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maple grove mn usa
Post  Posted 25 Jun 2001 6:19 pm    
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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.
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Richard Bass


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Sabang Beach, Philippines
Post  Posted 25 Jun 2001 9:35 pm    
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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
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Ricky Davis


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Bertram, Texas USA
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 1:08 am    
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My highest was a New Years Eve party and payed $1200.00 a man.
Ricky
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Herb Steiner

 

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Spicewood TX 78669
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 6:16 am    
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$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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Scott Moon


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Canyon Lake, TX
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 6:29 am    
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Herb!!! I got short changed then...I only got $375 for that show!!! They "Mickey Roed" Me!!!!!!LMAO

Scott
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Darvin Willhoite


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Roxton, Tx. USA
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 6:42 am    
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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.
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Herb Steiner

 

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Spicewood TX 78669
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 7:03 am    
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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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Rick Schmidt


From:
Prescott AZ, USA
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 7:35 am    
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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?
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Pat Jenkins

 

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Abingdon, VA, USA
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 9:44 am    
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Can I include the cost of free drinks and peanuts in what I got paid?
Pat
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chas smith R.I.P.


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Encino, CA, USA
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 9:46 am    
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The movie "Lost Boys", 5 days, $10k.
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Joan Cox

 

From:
Eustace, TX USA
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 10:12 am    
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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
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Kevin Lamb

 

From:
San Bernardino, CA, USA
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 10:55 am    
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My next door neighbor gave me $25 to stop playing Saturday night. Does this count?
kevin
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Bobby Bowman

 

From:
Cypress, Texas, USA, R.I.P.
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 11:17 am    
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$1500. Was an awful gig, but I'd like a few more of 'em from time to time.
BB

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Bill Terry


From:
Bastrop, TX
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 1:21 pm    
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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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Roger Edgington


From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 2:12 pm    
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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.
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Tim Rowley

 

From:
Pinconning, MI, USA
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 3:25 pm    
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$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.
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Lem Smith

 

From:
Long Beach, MS
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 5:02 pm    
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Wow...you guys are gonna ruin the whole "You can makes tens of dollars playing steel" tradition at this rate!

Lem
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Bob Hayes

 

From:
Church Hill,Tenn,USA
Post  Posted 26 Jun 2001 9:34 pm    
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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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Gene Jones

 

From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
Post  Posted 27 Jun 2001 2:36 am    
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Randy Beavers


From:
Lebanon,TN 37090
Post  Posted 27 Jun 2001 3:13 am    
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Someone needs to start a post of
"The most a gig ever COST you to play".
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Danny Naccarato


From:
Burleson, Texas
Post  Posted 27 Jun 2001 5:09 am    
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$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!!
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chas smith R.I.P.


From:
Encino, CA, USA
Post  Posted 27 Jun 2001 5:28 pm    
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I played the 37th annual striptease convention, it didn't pay much, but the scenery was impressive
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MUSICO

 

From:
Jeremy Williams in Spain
Post  Posted 28 Jun 2001 4:49 am    
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$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
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Shaan Shirazi

 

From:
Austin, TX, USA
Post  Posted 28 Jun 2001 6:50 am    
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Does it have to be steel? My highest paying gig was a bass gig with Roger Wallace at a private party in Del Rio for the Bull Riding World Championships. $400 + hotel + expenses. I remember another wedding gig where that paid $200 to play guitar for both Roger and Justin Trevino (would have done that for free) I just wish I was better back then.

Shaan

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chas smith R.I.P.


From:
Encino, CA, USA
Post  Posted 28 Jun 2001 1:06 pm    
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That does it, I'm moving to Spain
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