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Well, now I know that dickmittens are an actual thing. This thread delivers.I am digging all the good advice, thank you guys. We are both at that age where we just love playing music together and don't have expectations that we're gonna be famous or rich doing it. But if we can make the touring at l...

the Classical wrote:Other than that, the less people at the show the more effort you should put in to it. Some of the best shows I've ever played have been to less then twenty people. One time we played outside of Boston to like 5 people, not including the other bands who hated us...it was probably ...

I won't derive nearly as much enjoyment out of the money fire.

Definitely going to toss an atlas in the car for the next road trip; the GPS did indeed send us to a few wrong addresses. Probably a nice way to come to the end of our luck when we're playing house shows.

That's a hell of a list of good links, thanks for that! And the Thor Harris list is gold.

Thankfully we're a duo and our kit is relatively small, being a combo amp and a four-piece drum kit, so we can manage to squeeze into pretty fuel efficient vehicles. Any advice on promoting in cities we're visiting for the first time? Any on getting shows around the Chicago area specifically? That w...

Offal, thanks for the links! I went searching but my Google Fu is weak. Yaledelay, it's a bit absurd how happy the apples and oranges I just bought are making me. I try and work out crash space beforehand where I can, but I will definitely ask from the stage next time we don't have one.

I'm absolutely going to look around and ask for help setting up shows. Probably too late for the BBQ this year, I'm guessing, but I'll make sure to try for next year.

Once I move out of my cracker box apartment that is definitely in the cards too.