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Re: 2nd reed, Phantom of the Opera

Author: Wisco99
Date: 2015-04-10 07:37

An old band leader/contractor told me back in the 70's that there are always musicians willing to work for scale. He was a big union guy and only hired union musicians. What I later found out was the non-union bands were paying roughly double scale for casual gigs. $40 with 2 doubles for a Broadway show...wow, that kind of boggles my mind. That might have been scale around 1945 or so, but in 2015, ya gotta be kidding me. I had an attorney/bandleader ask me to play a Broadway show with 4 doubles about ten years ago for $25 a show. I just laughed and said no thanks. You are your reputation, so if you are willing to play a show for that kind of money, why should anyone else ever pay you anything more?

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