Originally Posted by Al David
Big Jim,

I lived in germany for just under 12 years...played music almost all of that time. In the 1970's and 1980's, I averaged between $55K and $60K per year. In those days, that was very good money! Ain't too shabby today, either! Other than about hald a dozen benefit shows we did for free, every single job was through my German booking Agent (Harry Kreiner Agency out of Manheim). He took 10% off the top and we got the rest...paid on the last Friday ov every month. The numbers I quoted above were after the agent's fee was deducted. So, Europe is a far better place for musicians.

The highest paying gig we had was at the Frankfurt Mess Halle for which our 5-piece band was paid 6,000 Deutch Marks, about $2,800.oo at the exchange rate at that time, for a 2 hour spot for about 3,00 patrons. We played country and southern rock music.

Where I live, St. Louis, Missouri, there are very few clubs that have live music, except for quite a few blues clubs and several rock venues. that's my report. I'll be back with more on some station at some time with some sort of info. Stay tuned!

Al



Few live music venues except for quite a few Blues and Rock music venues. What other kind of music would you want to hear live? LOL

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