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1. 
   acoustic11
   (113 Posts)

   So, I was hanging out at the Tweeter Center last night and realized that I need to be working somewhere like that. Doing lighting or sound or guarding the stage from stray bassists...

   But I don't even know where to begin, and y'all are infinitely wiser than me.

   What would be a cool job in the music industry? I'm at a point right now where I really have no idea what to do with my life, but i could totally see myself working at a venue or being some sort of tech. Do venues employ their own sound/light people, or is that something the bands do? How do you get started ding stuff like that? I always thought I'd end up as a music journalist or photographer, but maybe there's something more fun out there. Any other suggestions?

   I don't wanna end up as an out of work coked up A&R guy....but man, how fun would a job in the venue-side of the business be?

   - Kim

   Posted 2 years ago on August 19, 2007    LINK
2. 
   godsaverellogg
   (130 Posts)

   I've always wanted to be involved in music too. I want to open my own venue and call it the Candy Cave (after my cousin whose name is Andy Cave) hmmm or maybe the Bat Cave after my cousin Matt Cave... anyways the point I'm trying to make is that since we're already best friends we can go into business together and only have Todd Martin play, ever.

   -- Lauren

   Posted 2 years ago on August 19, 2007    LINK
3. 
   sami
   (45 Posts)

   I'm taking a music business and production program- where I'll end up, no idea. ideally I'd like to be involved with live music. that's just how I feel right now though. two years from now, who knows.
   there's a million directions you could go though. from working within a label, to production, to being stationary inside a venue, to touring as a tech....

   ps- Matt Cave/Bat Cave is brilliant.

   Posted 2 years ago on August 19, 2007    LINK
4. 
   acoustic11
   (113 Posts)

   Jeeze, Lauren...what happened to the Gemini Club? And all of the other thousands of ideas of names you've come up with?

   I think it would be awesome to be stationary at a venue, but I wouldn't even know where to begin.

   - Kim

   Posted 2 years ago on August 20, 2007    LINK
5. 
   godsaverellogg
   (130 Posts)

   gemini club? i don't ever remember it being that. for a while it was pangea. then it was the latin casino 3.

   then it was my all-time favorite- the busted heart baritone... that's my way of saluting the man who makes me love music.

   -- Lauren

   Posted 2 years ago on August 20, 2007    LINK
6. 
   neddi
   (97 Posts)

   stray bassists, hahaha

   Posted 2 years ago on August 20, 2007    LINK
7. 
   acoustic11
   (113 Posts)

   thanks for picking that up neddi. i was waiting for someone to notice

   - Kim

   Posted 2 years ago on August 21, 2007    LINK
8. 
   weekapaug009
   (4 Posts)

   i'd have to say that its a very difficult business to get into from the tech side, and that it would probably be way more fun to work with specific bands rather than a venue because then you won't have to deal with the random bands/artists that you don't really like...

   Posted 2 years ago on August 21, 2007    LINK
9. 
   sarah
   (261 Posts)

   for me, my dream job is doing public relations for some sort of label/band.

   something dies when you grow older, but you do the best you can

   Posted 2 years ago on August 21, 2007    LINK
10. 
    acoustic11
    (113 Posts)

    weekapaug, that's the thing.

    I've been to concerts where I *hate* the type music that's playing...random after-school heavy rock fundraisers and all...and I still have a blast. I really think that I could dig any sort of live show, so venue-side (especially at a chill venue like WCL) would be awesome.

    P&R would be fun... but I could never be an Ari Gold.

    - Kim

    Posted 2 years ago on August 22, 2007    LINK
11. 
    drewbixcube
    (31 Posts)

    My music industry dream job would be manhandling a cherry red Les Paul onstage on a nightly basis. I hear you can dance around in your underpants at that job, and no one cares. In fact, it's encouraged.

    Posted 2 years ago on August 22, 2007    LINK
12. 
    ams484
    (183 Posts)

    i'm looking to get in the industry as well- perhaps as a tour manager/marketing rep for a certain band from bridgeport, ct that happens to be opening for the sixers this fall

    -amanda

    Posted 2 years ago on August 22, 2007    LINK
13. 
    mbaker
    (108 Posts)

    What I'm doing now. Only more.

    http://twitter.com/mbakerphoto | http://www.facebook.com/meganbakerphotography

    Posted 2 years ago on August 24, 2007    LINK
14. 
    godsaverellogg
    (130 Posts)

    Oh man, this thread got me into some awkward pie yesterday. You see, I love sheet music in an obbsessive way, I have mounds of it in my room mostly for the violin. So every once in a while I go to this music warehouse (Dumont) and just prance among the Mozart and bathe myself in piles of Strauss. Yesterday I was thinking about this thread and I asked the guy there for a job, and it launched THE most awk conversation ever, which I'm so good at creating. Not only did I get no job, I think they're still laughing at me and my strange fixation on baroque operas.

    -- Lauren

    Posted 2 years ago on August 24, 2007    LINK
15. 
    Sadie
    (20 Posts)

    an out of work coked up A&R guy

    Props for the Butch quote if you did that on purpose...

    Posted 2 years ago on October 30, 2007    LINK
16. 
    Sparky79
    (3 Posts)

    I did PR for a band for 6 years until they broke up. It was amazing! I loved traveling, setting up shows as well as taking care of the merchandise among other things. After a while it got to me. It was impossible to maintain a relationship cause every guy I ever dated was convinced I was cheating on him. I've never cheated on anyone in my life! You get the thrill of backstage passes, meeting interesting people around the country and establishing contacts in the industry. I stopped because I realized I eventually wanted to get married (which I did) and start a family (which we will). As much fun as I was having, there was something missing. There are thousands of traveling musicians that can make relationships and family life work, I just wasn't one of them. It was good to get out of my system, it was an incredible learning experience for me.

    Posted 2 years ago on December 2, 2007    LINK
17. 
    acoustic11
    (113 Posts)

    Sadie, it was 100% intentional. J'adore Butch.

    - Kim

    Posted 2 years ago on December 13, 2007    LINK

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