brannon67 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 How many of you guys mostly do coffee house type gigs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Pubs and Clubs for us, would love to also do strip bars (Mrs EA thinks different) ... but I do normally have a coffee while there.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePretender Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 My limited public exposure has been doing Johnny Cash and John Prine covers in a mom & pop breakfast restaurant. No alcohol. Tough crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratch47 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Mostly my own tunes and a few covers in a little ma/pop lakeside restaurant about once per month. Great little venue owned/operated by some good friends who, fortunately, don't know what really good music is... Lot's of fun for an ole retiree who doesn't embarrass too easily... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Mostly my own tunes and a few covers in a little ma/pop lakeside restaurant about once per month. Great little venue owned/operated by some good friends who, fortunately, don't know what really good music is... Lot's of fun for an ole retiree who doesn't embarrass too easily... Nice Guild 12!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratch47 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Thanks, Nick. Darn near bigger than I am, but it sure is a sweet soundling ole 12er. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 While I will still occasionally sit in, not so much these days. But back in the 1970s I spent alot of time playing in them. A singer/harp player and myself were the "house band" in one. The pay sucked but the free food was a bonus and it was right down the road from where I lived. Not so sure I played there because I really liked the place as much as it was convenient and it was owned by a friend who asked me to put together something as a favor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I'm still doing my 1.5 hour gig 2-3 times a week at a local cafe......great prooving grounds for new songs and arrangements....you find out IMMEDIATELY where you are weak! Best learning experience ever for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I do two coffeehouses three times a month. Ready to start some libraries in March. Been playing some restaurants too. Looking forward to the warm weather months for outdoor festivals. For me, coffeehouses are pretty sweet. Scratch, that looks like a cool gig. Have a blast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 What's in that coffee? We don't have 'coffeeshops' here in Melbourne, Australia way (that I know of). Perhaps in some hipper areas, but they have a lot of 'cafes' here with alcohol licenses, with occasional entertainers, but most I have seen include a stereo going doof, doof, doof, groovy baby, doof. It sounds like a good gig for an acoustic guitarist. Good luck people and enjoy! Hey Scratch, I think your Guild 12 may actually be a bigger than you! Well, all you guitarists with repeat gigs at these coffeehouses and places must be going ok or you would be shown the door and not asked back 2-3 times a week! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejtl Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 have done them in the past. have played just about any kind of gig short of a stadium. what would you like to know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Yeah, as a fellow Aussie have to admit 'coffee shop' gigs is something unusual. Pub gig, even small ones, intimate, for sure, but coffee, not really, not hip enough, at least for uber cool, black cardigan wearing Melbourneans, right BluesKing .. ? ;-) What's in that coffee? We don't have 'coffeeshops' here in Melbourne, Australia way (that I know of). Perhaps in some hipper areas, but they have a lot of 'cafes' here with alcohol licenses, with occasional entertainers, but most I have seen include a stereo going doof, doof, doof, groovy baby, doof. It sounds like a good gig for an acoustic guitarist. Good luck people and enjoy! Hey Scratch, I think your Guild 12 may actually be a bigger than you! Well, all you guitarists with repeat gigs at these coffeehouses and places must be going ok or you would be shown the door and not asked back 2-3 times a week! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Yeah, as a fellow Aussie have to admit 'coffee shop' gigs is something unusual. Pub gig, even small ones, intimate, for sure, but coffee, not really, not hip enough, at least for uber cool, black cardigan wearing Melbourneans, right BluesKing .. ? ;-) Well I live down the coast a fair way from Melbourne, and I don't actually come from here and even though I may have lived here almost 35 years, I still am regarded as a new boy! And I don't think any one in Melbourne, and possibly the whole of Australia, would be able to sit through BluesKing777 playing guitar without being loaded! What a unique concept. BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamgreg Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I have done my share of Coffee House gigs; I enjoy the simplicity of them. Here are a couple of links: Hey Hey What Can I Do? Me on a 2010 Martin JC-40: http://www.youtube.c...C/0/DZJsVJaXOFU Old Man: (me on a 1970 Gibson F-12 mandolin and Ralph Cayedito on vocals and a 1994 Gibson SJ-200: http://www.youtube.c...C/5/213w6uc0QKg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_nikon Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I tried to play a coffee house when I was visiting Amsterdam ... ...what was I saying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS1976 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 i love the coffee house circuit. good way to meet people sell some CDs. Church gatherings too. I mean a gig's a gig. I also take the hit and if there's gonna be TV or print media there, I'm willing to play for free. I landed a sweet gig last summer performing music for some Davis Cup folks, to the very sweet tune of 'a comma in my paycheck' so you never know where the road will take you. play everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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