Do any of you play live, and what genre of music is it?

I've been asked to play live a couple of times with my friend, but it falls through every single time. If we did ever play live it would be a noise/doom/drone duo with vocals.
 
I’ve had a long career as a touring musician and composer. I’m currently (pre-Covid19) played in two bands in Vancouver, BC, a jazz quartet playing standards and originals and a Jazz Big Band with about 16 horns and rhythm section.
In the past I’ve played in blues, funk and rock bands, toured US, Mexico and Europe and even had a stint playing guitar for Cirque Du Soleil.
 
The first songs I recorded on a voice recorder. Then my vocal coach told me that I could capture sound directly from the piano. I bought a MIDI data cable, installed a trial version of music recording software, and started watching arrangement lessons on YouTube. That's how I got involved with the label afterwards. Yay. I found music pr recommendations on the website, and started streaming there as well. I was planning to get into the Nielsen Group, an international company, so that they would later be considered by the prestigious music charts. But for now, I am waiting for a decision. The era of private producers is over. Now even the word 'produce' is used in the sense of 'create an arrangement' rather than 'develop an artist': development is now in the hands of labels.
 
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I sit in on bass, guitar and piano when friends need it, mostly bass. We have a Beatles tribute gig in 3 weeks.

I'm also going to start jamming on my own surf and funk originals with a drummer friend. Fingers crossed that it works out and we can find a bassist.
 
Was in a pretty solid metal band back, like, 8 years ago.

We were a little late to the NWOAHM party. Venues were closing down left and right. Usually right after we played a show. Huh.

Seems like there isn't much of a market for live original music anymore...most of the opportunities that present themselves are for cover bands.

Which...I mean, nuthin against playing covers. It's fun. If you're a good band, the audience can enjoy it.

Live music is a, like, five edged sword. It can be great. It can also be fucking terrible. But that terrible band can have a lot of friends that they bring to the gig, who buy beer, while everybody else promptly gets the fuck outta there. Which can have this insidious effect of turning folks that might like live music away from it, while the venue operators keep booking the bands that can get their friends out, until all said friends are like *dude, I have a kid now, fuck off*, and then people figure that nobody likes live music cause people ain't showing up.

Or it could just be that DJ's are more convenient. Which...let's face it...absolutely true.
 
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