Cover Band Confidential's Podcast (Music Business, Gigging Tips & Making Money as a Musician)

Adam's chilling in Savannah so it's just Dan and Mike this week! Guess what happened--Mike struck viral video gold AGAIN. So let's find out about that! Also: The Americans, The Jerky Boys, Social Dilemma/Seaspiracy, Superstore, and other Things To Watch. Go here: https://linktr.ee/coverbandconfidential

How to set up your band's business, banking, and financial structure. Merits and challenges of LLC vs d/b/a. Quad Cortex first thoughts and videos. CBC Linktree: https://linktr.ee/coverbandconfidential Also imagine your studio roof crashing in on you. Scary as hell! Let's support Luke! https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-luke-rebuild

What's the best strategy for maximizing your reach into your audience's pocket? How to have a tantalizing, tempting, irresistible tip jar! Plus, Adam's pricing chutzpah from last episode gets an immediate real-world test with results TBD! CBC Linktree: https://linktr.ee/coverbandconfidential

Pig pile on Adam! He's got a spicy idea for taking the drama out of pricing gigs, and maybe it's great! Or maybe it's dumb! We can't know until he tries it, but for sure we all have opinions about it! https://linktr.ee/coverbandconfidential

Our guest this week is Jennifer Batten, a world-renowned guitarist and clinician best known as a hired gun for artists like Jeff Beck and Michael Jackson. She is also the founder of the Guitar Cloud Symposium, an online community geared towards guitar players looking to improve their skills both as musicians and in business. https://www.jenniferbatten.com/ https://guitarcloudsymposium.com/

As the light at the tunnel appears to edge closer, we take a good look at what a performer needs to be doing to hit the ground running. Are you going to pick up right where you left off? Leverage what you've built in the downtime to grow from? Or will you have to start from scratch?

The gents (one great, one insufferable) talk about getting back out there--what that looks like now, what it's going to take, and how we're preparing.

The League of Ordinary Gentlemen reunites for another special one! A look at the social media landscape in 2021--where to put your energy and how to maximize your returns! Then a good look at on-demand merch printing. Is it the way of the future? SPEEEAKING of merch, here's the CBC merch store! Come get our junk! https://coverbandconfidential.threadless.com/

The boys are back with NON GEAR topics! First a Reddit thread prompts a conversation about the how, which, and mostly the WHY of finding forgotten but beloved songs from the past. See the thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lctvk8/what_is_the_best_forgotten_80s_song/ Then a couple name-collision items in the news prompts a conversation about trademarks, name uniqueness, and ot...

Gear... but NOT guitar gear! Prompted by a question on the Facebook group, the fellas discuss their use and abuse of Turbosound iNSPIRE range PA speakers. Also: tendonitis! Deal with it! Last-week-we-mean-it for Songs For Kids donations! Venmo: @atlpartybands Paypal: http://paypal.me/cbconfidential

Okay look! Not much is happening with gigs these days. But it's NAMM season which means there's gear coming down the pipeline! So we're talking about it! This week we dissect (not literally) the HX Stomp XT and analyze (only kind of literally) the hype around the Neural DSP Quad Cortex. Last week for Songs For Kids donations! Venmo: @atlpartybands Paypal: http://paypal.me/cbconfidential

This week the gents talk such sexy topics as trademark law, Gene Simmons, and tendonitis. This is the last week to contribute to the CBC donation to Songs For Kids! Go here: https://www.paypal.me/cbconfidential Venmo: @atlpartybands

It's a big gear week despite there being no NAMM happening right now to announce them at. Adam guitar-geeks out on all the goodies that Fender has put out. Dan gives an update from the depths of Neural DSP Pre-Order Bonkers-land, and we discuss what is almost certainly the most expensive guitar pedal ever offered for sale.

So many big small topics in this episode! Donate to songs for kids at Venmo: @atlpartybands

Let's take a look back, shall we, at the year of the Pod! Part of the story can be told by statistics, and part only by the people who lived it. Also: Adam's new self-care breakthrough, and what used gear has gained value this year!

This is a short one this week! We announce the winner of our Gift Guide contest and wish you all a Happy Holiday! We will be back next week with a bit more substance so enjoy your holiday!

Ho Ho Horrible songs! This week the lads discuss the genre of overdone, overwrought, overproduced Holiday tunes. And a fine list of new suggestions to add to your seasonal set list! The replacements suggested are: Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby & David Bowie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kfdEyV3RQ What Christmas Means To Me - Stevie Wonder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Step into the exam room, where Dr. Adam and Dr. Dan do a checkup on the setlist of Nashville Top-40 band Nick Vallese & The Misfit Toys. Learn the moves the boys recommend for setlist design, and see how they apply regardless of genre! Nick's Socials: https://www.facebook.com/nvxmt/ https://www.instagram.com/thenickvallese/

How many times (this year alone!) have you had to make a tough call, as a band business person? The unpopular move, or the tough interpersonal stand, or the cancellation because something wasn't right? How do you deal with it? What do you do?

Buying gifts for musicians is hard. So let us help! This episode is for the non-musicians in your life -- A lovely list of great, sub-$100 prezzies for the musician in your life! SM58- https://amzn.to/35WZ8FH SM57- https://amzn.to/2KAb5Ja Earasers earplugs- https://amzn.to/3kZESHw Whirlwind IMP-2 Direct Box- https://amzn.to/2Ht3cE5 Drum Key 3 Pack- https://amzn.to/2UVWk5c Ernie Ball Super Slinky 6...

The boys nerd out about upgrades patches, gear, and goodies. Which is an entertaining listen even if you're a keyboard player. Then Adam recounts is experience with a recent gig playing through the "Cover Band Hell" set list and being paid handsomely for it. Who are we benefitting by being set list snobs? Maybe knock that off and play what the people want?

This week the lads discuss turning down gigs that don't work for you. For whatever reason--the travel, the money... And how we all need to be making healthy, self-sustaining choices, especially now. But first a chat about what the new vaccine news might mean about coming back to the stage, and what Billboard and Ticketmaster get right and wrong in their approach to protecting their audiences.

Look. Tonight it's either watch votes gradually trickle in from some very very slow states, or talk about random nonsense with the boys. We're choosing the latter. Drunkest audience member. Worst show. Famous people we've met. We're covering the IMPORTANT stuff in this one. Speaking of important stuff, to make clear ice spheres, Dan can vouch for this: https://www.totalwine.com/accessories-more/ac...

In this fine episode, the two fine lads discuss--with no disrespect but some tough love--the recent Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing of Guitar Center. What do you think will fill the void? Are music stores obsolete? Then we talk about the economics of being a Good Guy, and how Adam made nearly as much money not playing as he did playing. And now if you'll excuse me, I need to go watch Cougar Town.

This week the fellas discuss a critical aspect of a professional's mindset for success: Locus of Control. Are you in charge of your life's out comes? Or does life determine? Which context you live in is decisive.