Re: gig fee

[Douglas Baldwin <coyotelk@optonline.net>]

> > what is the going rate for a "live looping" tm. coffee house gig (2-3
sets) ?

I think this all comes down to the kind of music you're creating with the
looper. If it's accessable songlike material, you're in the same ballpark 
as
any solo singer/guitarist. If it pushes the limits of genre or becomes
genre-less, you're at the mercy of the masses (and more obviously
tightrope-walking on the kindness of strangers).
    Personally, I've been "out of the 'live gig' loop" for a couple of
years, working on other stuff, but I'm going back into the fire in a few
months. When I play "legit" gigs, I'm bringing years of experience with me
and won't gig for less than about $200, locally. But when I unleash my
electronica-chill-waves'o'swirl-Stockhousin' loop-based stuff on the world,
I fully expect to play only for tips for a few months until (and IF) I
develop some kind of crowd. When a fair number of people show up to be in
your space when you conduit the Muse, you can charge money to the 
spaceowner
for that commodity. Nay say pa?
Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
coyotelk@optonline.net