Anyone familiar with 'GigMasters' booking service?

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 10 Jun 2010 4:35 am

We're looking to book a few more gigs and could use some outside help with that. Have any of you had any experience with, or heard much about, an outfit called "GigMasters" (www.gigmasters.com)? Wonder if they're legit and effective....?

Thanks,
Jimbeaux

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 10 Jun 2010 5:27 am

I just got a email from them, wondering the same thing....

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 10 Jun 2010 5:44 am

Me too. Didn't see much value for me.

Ben Jones · Post by **Ben Jones** » 10 Jun 2010 5:57 am

I imagine it would go alot like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9HoBYl6_XQ

Mickey Adams · Post by **Mickey Adams** » 10 Jun 2010 7:00 am

Jim, do you think the Forum membership roster has been compromised?....I got the email as well...

Ray Montee (RIP) · Post by **Ray Montee (RIP)** » 10 Jun 2010 7:04 am

I got an email too!

NEVER before heard of them.............

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 10 Jun 2010 7:06 am

Mickey, that's a good question for b0b. A regular forumite could not see the individual email addresses; can only send email to each other thru the Forum, not directly.

b0b, you readin' this?

Dave Hopping · Post by **Dave Hopping** » 10 Jun 2010 7:17 am

I've never gotten anything from them directly but I have read their ads on CL.They might actually get somebody a gig once in awhile,but I figure if they're spamming us(some of us anyway)they're probably spamming the venues as well,and encountering similar sales resistance.

It might be a better idea to figure out which venues the band wants to work, go there,and ask the management which booking agency(ies) they use.Then approach the agencies.

Paul Crawford · Post by **Paul Crawford** » 10 Jun 2010 7:21 am

I got the same email, but I have heard of them.

One of the groups I sit in with was booked at a corporate event from our resume on Gigmasters. It's a general online clearing house of acts of all types. They've targeted the web searches for casual users. Try to Google "(insert your city here) Bands". They'll show up as a paid ad at the top of the page. Handy if you don't have a clue of what you're looking for.

I've got no idea how they got everyone's email.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 10 Jun 2010 7:26 am

I got it too, but then I get a lot of spam.

The only way that anyone could access the forum email addresses would be through hacking an admin account (mine or Joey's). I see no indication that that has happened. Even if you had root access to the server itself, it would be difficult to get at that information and turn it into a mailing list.

I'm not going to point fingers, but there are a lot of other places where many of us have casually released our email addresses. Google your address to see what I mean.

rpetersen · Post by **rpetersen** » 10 Jun 2010 7:28 am

I got it too!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 10 Jun 2010 7:31 am

b0b wrote: I'm not going to point fingers, but there are a lot of other places where many of us have casually released our email addresses. Google your address to see what I mean.

b0b, that may be true, but doesn't the fact that all of us got this on the same day suggest that it was not by just scouring the internet for randomly-available names but rather by some coordinated means to acquire steel guitarists' names and spam us all at once?

Ben Jones · Post by **Ben Jones** » 10 Jun 2010 7:51 am

If it helps at all , I didnt get the email..not even in my junk folder.

IM sure their source for your info is something other than this forum .....facebook? myspace? The way they toss your info around and link it to other sites I wouldnt be at all surprised.

John Swain · Post by **John Swain** » 10 Jun 2010 8:28 am

I got it and I don't have Facebook or Myspace...

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 10 Jun 2010 8:39 am

John Swain wrote:I got it and I don't have Facebook or Myspace...

But your address is listed publicly on Online Steelers.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 10 Jun 2010 8:58 am

I didn't receive the email and my address is on Online Steelers. Go figger.

Gordon Borland · Post by **Gordon Borland** » 10 Jun 2010 8:59 am

I got it.

Fred Justice · Post by **Fred Justice** » 10 Jun 2010 9:04 am

Me to

Bob Hoffnar · Post by **Bob Hoffnar** » 10 Jun 2010 9:36 am

I got an email from them also. Wasn't interested.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 10 Jun 2010 10:15 am

I got it and now I'm all itchy!

Ben Jones · Post by **Ben Jones** » 10 Jun 2010 10:19 am

could be from almost anywhere...online music retailers we all frequent perhaps? Its from a source that knows our common interest is music. Musicians Friend, Sweetwater, Elderly etc? ....someone has sold their database info to these GigBlasters.com because it would be far too laborious to mine from Online Steelers Registry or this site.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 10 Jun 2010 10:22 am

Nah, I don't believe that. When this many steelers all get it on one day, I think it's coming from a consolidated list of steelers from somewhere.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 10 Jun 2010 11:34 am

I got it too. I have a link to my email on my web site but my email address is nowhere else on line, as far as I know. Someone is harvesting our addresses.

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 10 Jun 2010 11:34 am

I got that ad as well. I'm also looking to spread some of our booking joy around, so anyone with agent/contacts in the S.E., I'd appreciate hearing from you. The gigmasters ad originated in CT, I believe.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 10 Jun 2010 11:37 am

Well this thread has drifted to the subject of where they got their list of names. But, basically, I think it looks like an interesting service and I'm curious if they really get gigs for folks. I asked a few friends here in Philly and one of them said they know someone who got a few low-paying gigs through them. That's all I've heard so far...

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