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I've been playing a bar every other Monday night for 3 months now. It's an easy-going, mostly hippie crowd and that suits me. Moreover, there's a certain type of person who just doesn't show his/her face there; that suits me too. It's a symbiotic relationship.
Last Monday, my friend asked me to play with he and his brother at a different kind of bar, a preppie, bleach-blonde, button-down meat market for lawyers & society wannabees. OMFG.
So here's a lesson. Be true to your audience. Yeah, it's good to step out of your comfort zone and play to an "alternative" crowd from time to time, but learn yourself, learn your audience, and value the symbiosis over the paycheck if you can manage.
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