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Old 04-10-2008, 12:18 PM
 
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Being a guitar player that mainly plays cover music, I am interested in the Cover Circuit there.

Can someone play every weekend and maybe even some weeknights doing Top 40?

Is there a Top 40 Band/Venue website for the Sacramento Area?

Can anyone give me a breakdown on payscale for Top 40 bands?

Are Cover Bands traveling to San Francisco and Reno for additional gigs?

I am currently in Seattle and most 4 piece bands make $100 per band member per night unless you get into casinos which you can make double or triple that.

Any Help is Apreciated, Thank You
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Old 04-10-2008, 04:16 PM
 
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There really isn't a cover band circuit here, other than a few small venues like the restaurant on the Delta King. Most of the live band venues in town feature bands that write and perform their own songs.
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Old 04-10-2008, 04:37 PM
 
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Not true

First look through the Sacramento News & Review - it's just like the Seattle music paper, they have a bunch of contacts for the music biz

Secondly - I can't remember the name of the band exactly - it was like CheeseHeads or something like that but they were VERY popular, and played the music venue circuit - mostly Harlows (on J st ) though

SO you could call Harlows and get a breakdown of pay
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Old 04-10-2008, 11:58 PM
 
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Cheeseballs. They played a lot at Harlow's for a while. I'm not saying there aren't any, but it's kind of a niche thing, whereas in other cities the majority of bands play only covers and most venues only want cover bands.
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Old 04-11-2008, 04:08 PM
 
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Thanks for the info, if any one else has more to add please feel free.

But if we are talking about 1 or 2 venues that is not going to be enough to play every weekend which is my goal.

I will look at the periodical you mentioned.

I know for our area there is a really good underground web site that tracks specifically cover bands and it unfortunately does not come up on a Google search, just wondering if there was anything like that for the Sacramento area.

If there is a band member on here in a similar situation, I would really like more info, as I had mentioned I wonder how many are going to Frisco or Reno for work. We have some gigs here we travel more than an hour to get to.

Thanks again for the responses
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