There are too many musicians out there that won’t play for free. A lot of them would want to get paid. Whether it’s playing a gig or doing studio work for a project. They can’t go a day without making money out of music. They see music being a job. They feel that going through all that hard work for a band, they deserve to be paid.

I never cared about money. I do like money, don’t get me wrong, but I just don’t care to make it playing music. I can get by in life just fine.

When a musician wants to get paid, it makes them self centered. Kind of shows that they don’t really have heart for music. They’re not really passionate about music that they think they are. If you want to get somewhere in music and become successful, you’re not going to do that, by playing a bunch of “pay” only gigs. You want to be willing to play a bunch of free gigs. If you play free gigs, it’ll show respect to your fanbase that they don’t have to pay anything just to see you perform.

Out of all the gigs I’ve had in the past, they were mostly free ones. I’ve had actual paying gigs sure, but that didn’t matter to me. I never got payed a lot to begin with. For paying, I would only get paid around $30 – $70. Depending on how big of a crowd I get. Paying at the door. I would even split my money with the other musicians on the gig sometimes ’cause really money didn’t matter to me playing music. I don’t care for it.

Not playing for the money, will show your true passion for music. Think about it, ya know? All I cared about was making the music for the people. That’s why I do this.

Kev