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Tour:smart : and break the band /
From packing the right equipment to keeping enough gas in the tank to get home, every aspect of making a successful tour with a band is addressed in this comprehensive guide. More than 100 luminaries and leading organizations from the world of touring, among them Chris Connelly, Henry Rollins, the H...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, Ill. :
: Smart Books,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why it is essential to tour
- Building blocks : basic concepts and ideas
- Planning and routing : saved by geography
- Transportation : broken down
- Stories from the front line #1
- Good advice from baaad people #1
- Promoters and venues in their own words
- Contracts
- Riders
- Booking : DIY vs. agents
- Marketing I : revenue streams
- Merchandising : the engine
- Budgets : do it on paper
- Press and publicists : an inside perspective
- Street teams
- Mailing list : every person counts
- Marketing II : using the web
- Radio : get heard
- Record stores
- Guest list
- Marketing III : creating your own event
- Good advice from baaad people #2
- What to pack : accessories and attitude
- How to get a better live sound
- Crew and production
- Scenery and stage decoration
- So you want to be a tour manager (you crazy f*#!)
- Stories from the front line #2
- Itineraries and day sheets
- Settlement : getting paid is a blood sport
- Accounting : rust never sleeps
- Management : what do I get?
- Soundscan, Pollstar, and other data
- Excel basics
- Software that's as hard as nails
- Sex : better safer sex on the road
- Drugs : highs and lows
- Alcohol : drugs part II
- Health tips
- Being a grrrl on the road
- Personality, ego, and charisma
- Karma : what goes up
- Murphy's law
- Touring as a family man
- What to do when your gear gets stolen
- Marketing IV : package tours, a religious experience
- Sponsorships and endorsements
- Seminars and festivals
- Touring internationally
- China
- Immigration : crossing the line
- Memorabilia
- Tour diaries
- How to screen print
- When you are the opening band
- Marketing V : 61 strategies for a more successful show
- Good advice from baaad people #3
- Case studies : an out-of-band experience
- Stories from the front line #3
- The future of touring.