“The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.” ThinkingLastsUsedSupportCostBandPaidOur FamilyFundGigsMisfits Author:Gerald Caiafa
“I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.” GirlHappenedNew YorkBandActressesGigs Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.” WritingYearsWellsPlayFourStageBandSingingWho I AmFortunateGet BackFour YearsSoloGigsPulseGrooveGood Bands Author:Arthur Godfrey
“I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.” HomeSchoolStudyBandHigh SchoolJazzShowersHawaiiGigsHeadingsDowntownGoing HomeToo CoolSchool BandWaikiki Author:Eric Hernandez
“The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."” WantNeedsGivingMeanNextBandGive MeChecksShopsToilets1960sGigsOasis Author:Noel Gallagher
“I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.” FeelsEndsBigsPainUsedFoundWhiteFiveBandJokesHeavyBrokeScreamMetalsFoldsGigsHeavy MetalRantFalsetto Author:Ben Folds
“I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'” DifferentFactsWould BeJobsNightSongBehindsPossibilityDutyEasierOne DayBandSingingResponseSingersBackgroundsHeyRestaurantsVocalGigsDrummerDefault Author:Chris Cornell
“I listen to everything. As I told you, sometimes I just want to shut off from music and be silent. Then I play a song and it's refreshing. It's almost like initializing yourself. Recently I was in South Africa doing a press day for my tour. I listened to this band called "Freshly Ground." They were doing a live gig there so that's the last thing I've heard.” WantSometimesPlayLastsSongHeardBandPressesSilentSouthSouth AfricaGigsRefreshing Author:A. R. Rahman
“I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!” WantBandCatLocalsAuditionsSkinnyGigsUfo Author:Bernie Marsden
“I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingTryingHas BeensIdeasDifferentWantedTogetherThreeGoalTermRecordsFocusGroupsBandProjectsMusicianCome UpAlbumsFortunateConsistentNew IdeasGigs Author:Dave Douglas
“Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.” StillsMy OwnHeardBandGigs Author:George Ezra
“One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.” MindFirstsWellsKindMadeNightBreakAudienceBandSpringTownsCustomersEastConclusionTexasCatastropheCurtainsGigsLoadedCokeLegendaryEast Texas Author:Billy Gibbons
“There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday night for 7 or 8 years. Sean and I started taking lessons with them and they gave us a great foundation in bluegrass instrumentation. They were the lens through which I saw music for a very long time.” YearsLongNightParentSawsBrotherLessonsBandLong TimeFoundationMy BrotherEtcSaturdayLensesGigsSaturday NightSeanSan DiegoBluegrassInstrumentation Author:Sara Watkins
“When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.” FirstsCarBandDrinkingHotelTruckGigs Author:Van Morrison
“A band that we supported called Blackfish in Manchester, played the most insane gig I've ever been to. Everything was set on fire, and then they came on and played one of the coolest gigs I've ever seen.” FireBandInsaneGigsManchester Author:Matthew Healy
“I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.” YearsHalfSweetBandEightGigsBasil Author:Jon Gordon