John Fahey’s Dance of Death
I recall as if it were only yesterday or possibly even a distant dream of my high school years in...
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Category: The Solo Gigger
The Power of Musical Notes
Within a number of articles I’ve written for various publications, the theme has always been along...
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Sequencing Options Part 2
Back in the dark ages when one had to actually book time in a studio to make a real recording,...
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Sequencing Options – The Solo Gigger
A while back, I did a column on learning new material. This month, let’s tackle sequencing a new...
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Rap – The Solo Gigger
I am not a fan of rap. However, we should discuss what happens onstage when you aren’t playing....
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The “A” Word – The Solo Gigger
Let’s discuss the one thing that will guarantee your success or failure. One word that makes the...
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THE SOLO GIGGER- Doubles, Anyone?
It’s summertime and the gigging is easy. Well, maybe not every day or week, but if you’re...
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Gig Travel – The Solo Gigger
How do you get to your shows? Planes, trains, automobiles, boats, bikes or on foot? There are many...
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Live Entertainment Economics – THE SOLO GIGGER
I spoke with a client just last week who wanted to book me for a three hour private party. He had...
Read MoreThe Importance of Tunnel Vision
When I was in grade school, we lived in Lexington, KY. Beautiful country and thanks to the proliferation of race horses, “(horse) flies as big as Buicks,” to quote Emmylou Harris. I remember first going to Keeneland, the quarter...
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The Money Question
We’ve discussed money in bits and pieces during the course of this blog for almost two...
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The Ever Changing Business Model
One of my guitar students and his father came to see me at a restaurant gig a couple weeks ago....
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- Comedian Don Grey On The Funnier Side of Performing Better (MobileBeat.com)The ability to properly use humor is just as much a learned skill as any other in our bag of tricks. But the fact is that some of us are just not as funny as we think we are. There is hope though. Mike Cordeiro, owner of M.C. Entertainment in Rhode Island recently sat down […]
- Top 7 Reasons Your Church Should Not Live StreamSo, this is a list of the reasons that you should not live stream. This is not meant to be a discouragement, but a preflight checklist to make sure that a new live streaming ministry won’t crash on takeoff, hurting more people than it helps. This is certainly not an exhaustive list, but it should […]
- ABCs of Spectrum Use In a Crowded Wireless World (Shure UK)We found this cool series of short, to-the-point video snippets from Shure UK about effective use of spectrum for wireless mics and monitors cruising Pro Sound News Europe. It’s about 18 months old and not U.S.-centric so we’ll be looking for something similar covering the still unfolding situation involving the impending loss of the 600 […]