moxham123 wrote:As far as Driller's. They never return phone calls anyway and nobody ever answers the phone there at anytime. It was not that way when they first opened. It is a nice place with a nice stage and the pay was good. Not long after they opened, they started cutting the band money and cancelling gigs. They seem to go through lots of different management and somebody will book the bands and then not tell anybody who is booked. We showed up there once and the previous manager never told anybody we were booked and we were not advertised. We did play but hardly anybody was there and then all our other gigs were cancelled. Several other bands went through the same thing.
OMG ... not another "gloom-and-doom-for-the-local-music-scene" thread ...
You must be referring to a different Driller's Bar in a different Kay Arena in a different Indiana, Pa. then, because we've been in their rotation for about two years now, we play there every 5-6 weeks and each time, the ƒü©king place is packed from front to back and the crowd keeps growing. At our show there a few weeks ago, before I identified myself as a band member, security tried to park me at the bottom of "Mount Drillers," down by the highway — they were running a shuttle bus up the hill to the facility for the patrons because there was no place to park up top.
Since we've been dealing with them, they've had ONE manager — Bubba. He's the only person we've ever dealt with there. If he doesn't answer (I actually just called him Thursday and he answered) he always calls back within 24 hours (maybe you have a bad phone number or something?).
As far as "cutting band money," we've NEVER been cut on money — EVER. As a matter of fact, we've actually received substantial increases in pay at each of our last two gigs.
Driller's is by far one of the most professionally run establishments we deal with.
We have had clubs that don't get back in touch so quickly with us (or at all) and, in most cases, it's a situation where either:
A) We haven't drawn real well there yet or,
B) Their schedule is full with bands that are drawing well and there's simply no room for new bands.
Just because a particular club isn't booking you doesn't mean they're closing. We've been trying to get into 4Ds for quite sometime to no avail, but I understand they're staying open anyway.
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That's what she said.
