Re: making a living

[Charlie M <pilotcp@gmail.com>]

as someone who still gets paid in a percentage in beer sales, deception for the club's overhead isn't that far off...

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:52 PM, David Gans <david@trufun.com> wrote:

Sorry.  "Deduction," not "deception."  But hey...

On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:39 PM, David Gans <david@trufun.com> wrote:

> I occasionally get to open a show at Slim's or the Great American Music Hall, usually for $250 or so.  But a "headline" or co-bill at the Starry Plough or Don Quixote's is a door deal, with a deception for the club's overhead, etc., and they like to keep the ticket prices down to get more people in the door to buy beer - and of course, they don't offer the entertainers a share of the bar take.

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