Last week we got our first tier 3 patron. We have talked about patronage and tip-giving through venmo, but when the system began to work, it certainly changed my perspective as a musician. Traditionally, merchandise is how an original band paid the bills. (It's well know that unlike cover acts, original acts seldom get paid to perform. On the contrary, we often pay to play and have our music heard) So if you saw the band, you bought a t-shirt or a sticker. This has alway

So here it is. The gratuitous blog from yet another band stressing the importance of tipping, buying merchandise and crowd-funding.... Why do we constantly ask for tips and support? In short...We are broke. There is an old joke that the easiest way to become a millionaire musician is to start out as a billionaire musician. I believe there are 3 things that motivate the typical musician to keep gigging and keep writing music: 1 Women....that's a given and needs no explana

So we had 4 gigs in a little over a month throughout November. They were awesome, so I'm far from bitching. However...they were our first gigs as a band and it's been a few years for all of us since we have played out. It was time to shake the dust off and get out there and we loved every minute of it. I completely forgot about the total horror we would feel at the first gig we did as a band, even though fans said we sounded great. How we stepped off stage, shaking our he

Last night, Khallus opened up for Small Town Titans at the Warehouse in Clarksville, TN. It was an awesome crowd and a really fun show, but it makes me wonder.... Is there ever a show where you can say "Yeah, it went without a hitch."? Wrought with technical difficulties, it was definitely challenging. Khallus made some ambitious changes and upgrades to our stage set, which we debuted last night. We constructed 3 sections of wall, each of them with a small TV which plays s