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So I’m sort of curious, forgive me for my ignorance, but do musicians make a living off a band?

Say, do they make a living off a contract, or concert tickets? Or both?

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Commander Ikari offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 234 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (0 minutes after post)

They get a tiny percent of the money for each cd/song they sell, concerts…

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Commander Ikari offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 234 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 minute after post)

Warr3n wrote:
So they have a job?

yeah… they’re musicians…

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Commander Ikari offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 234 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (2 minutes after post)

Some have contracts to be payed so much each year and produce so much music per year..

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Barbyman offline Verified User (2 years, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 6 #
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It all depends on your outlook .As a Musician you can work on your own ,have an Agent or Agents looking for work for you.I know of a halve a Dozen what have a Van and do there Gig for Weddings and other Festivities .Then you have Musicians joining a Band,again you need someone who gets you the Work.Now you are going upper Class a single Musician who has his Agent gets you the Bookings for Clubs Casinos and big Venues and everybody needs his cut .Normally an Agent takes 25% .If you have signed with a Record Company its getting even More difficult .Look at me I’m on my own i get my own Gigs after Christmas i will have a Band and lets hope we sell a few CD s and we fill a few Venues .Barbyman.com

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