Top Tips for Making Money Live!

[@guitarzen5999]

After years of gigging cover, original and tribute bands, I can honestly say the money is in tribute bands. Also I've gotten to play venues like House of Blues and the Whisky (Sunset Strip) in tribute bands.

[@Music4life-DD]

Nice! thank you for your input. I find this topic very interesting. Keep up the great work!

[@drumteacher43]

Hey man, thanks for the shout out. Glad you liked the video. Subbed and love your tips. I agree with every tip!! Be pro learn your parts, yup all of it love it.. I’m going to do a 2nd video talking about same as what your talking about as I was mainly talking about bar bands. Tributes, corporate and weddings and private functions is the way to go nowadays!

[@plankspankersparadise3113]

To the point! Great!

[@TheCyberMantis]

What you said is true. "Image" is important. Bands need a catchy name, and a recognizable image. Even PANTERA had an "Image". It was a "we don't give a F" image. 😆 Sadly, a lot of "musicians" have egos. Some of them are narcissists. We used to have an old saying, "lead singers disease". It was so hard to find a good lead singer that didn't have a huge ego. Lead guitar players and some drummers will also have big egos. Especially if they know they are really good. Bass and keyboard players seem to be the most chill of the group. Lead singers and lead guitar players believe they are "rock stars". A keyboard player thinks of himself as a "serious musician". Image and appearance is certainly important. Along with "stage presence" and good crowd interaction. This is why we are all blown-away by Lovebites. They are the complete package. They are doing everything the right way. Literally the only thing we could critique about Lovebites would be: they need to tour more, and play more shows! 😁 Lovebites has the luxury of not operating on their own. They have a pretty big team behind them. When bands start-out, they have no one helping them do anything. When they start to get a following, here come the corporate leeches with shady offers. It's a long way to the top, if you wanna rock N roll. Nearly all super successful bands go through line-up changes. It's very hard to get 4 or 5 people to agree on anything. Let alone, how to run a complicated business like a band. Once the money starts pouring-in... people get greedy. That's when the real trouble starts. They will become a victim of their own success. RUSH avoided this by agreeing right from the start that they would split all the profits equally. 33% for each member. Keep it simple.

[@TheCyberMantis]

In case you haven't seen THIS yet: kzbin.info/www/bejne/roCqf6N9j5mBp7M ( Also: Lovebites just dropped a new song / music video! "Unchained" ) 🤘🏼🐺🤘🏼