You’re Not Their Backup Plan: How to Market Your Band’s Shows with Pat Watters
Twenty years ago, Pat Watters looked at Texas country’s self-sustaining scene, where bands lift each other up and fans proudly claim t...
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Your Competition Is the Couch: Building Fans Through Theatrical Live Shows with Megan & Alan from Neonautica
Megan Ihnen and Alan Theisen of Neonautica went from contemporary classical recitals to headlining dubstep parties in New Orleans, and they...
Instagram Paid Him Tens of Dollars. It Also Got Him Into the Beach Boys: Social Media, Session Vocals, & Harmony Stacks with Chris Cron
Chris Cron posted what he thought was a one-off video about how to sound like the Beach Boys, set his phone down, and came back to 10,000 vi...
How Every Club Sounds Great: Running SXSW Stages & Changeovers with Nate Cross
Every club at SXSW sounds good, every night, all week, and we’ve often wondered how they maintain that consistency. This week Dave fin...
The Opener Sets the Tone: Set List Strategy, AI vs. the Artist & The Craft of Fronting a Band
Skylar Hamilton is back by popular demand for round two of your questions, recorded across an Airbnb kitchen table in New York City where a...
Play the Fill: Stage Confidence, Filling an Empty Room & Booking Gigs
You’ve earned your seat on that drum riser, even when four people in the crowd know the Bonham parts better than you do. Dave Hamilton...
Re-Impressing the Room All Night: The Realities of Nashville's Lower Broadway with Tyson Hanes & Adam Barber
Nashville’s Lower Broadway isn’t a gig, it’s a gauntlet, and Tyson Hanes and Adam Barber of The Tyson Hanes Band are here...
Ask for the Gig You Want: Kevin Glendinning on SNL, Super Bowls, and 25 Years on the Road
Monitor engineer Kevin “KG” Glendinning joins you live from a Roman amphitheater in Pula, Croatia: eight countries in seven days...
From Broadway Swing to Principal: Eight Shows a Week...with Victor Carrillo Tracey
Your voice is the most temperamental instrument you’ll ever own, and this week Victor Carrillo Tracey – original company member...
Matt Beck on Matchbox Twenty, The Outsiders, Hot Cocoa and a Green Tartan Suit
Matt Beck taught himself guitar strung upside down and backwards and has never once found a reason to stop. He joins you this week from the...
Hired From an 11-View Video: Sean Mullaney on Opportunity and Owning the Stage
Guest co-host Sean Mullaney joins Dave Hamilton to prove that the gig you want is usually hiding inside the gig you almost skipped. A video...
Nobody Bought a Ticket to Watch Load-In
It’s just you and Dave this week for a full mailbag episode, with road stories up front: Matt Musty behind the kit with Train at Great...
When Your Worlds Collide...and the Drummer Becomes the Sound Guy
Daniel East is back for a no-agenda episode that turns into Gig Gab therapy. You’ll hear about Brit Drozda’s fifth record in pre...
The Wrong Audience Is Still an Audience: Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe on the Gigging Life
Episode 543 lands on National Fortune Cookie Day, and guest co-host Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe of NUGEN Audio opens by demystifying how your mas...
Growing Up Statler: Wilson Fairchild on Harmony, Hustle, and the Working Musician's Life
This week Wil and Langdon Reid of Wilson Fairchild pull up a chair beside Dave to show you what a life in music actually looks like from the...
Ryan Goldbacher on Touring with Tom Keifer, Mixing FOH (and Monitors), and AI
This week front-of-house engineer Ryan Goldbacher calls in from the road with Tom Keifer, and you’ll quickly learn that landing the ne...
Patrice Peris on Sync, Survival, and Why You Don't Need a Backup Plan
This week singer-songwriter Patrice Peris joins Dave to flip the script on building a music career. That question musicians always get – wha...
Sub Gigs, Mic Mutes & the Art of Mixing Live with Jesus Hernandez
This week you start things off digging into the craft that separates good gigs from great ones. You’ll get the playbook for prepping a...
Three Rush Fans and Rush's 2026 Comeback Tour: From the Room and From Afar
Three Rush fans — a father, a son, and Spartacus — walk into a podcast. There’s no punchline, just the tape rolling on a conversation...
Road Stories, Recording Secrets, and the Perfect Pop Song – with Rand Lempert from The Broken Rings
This week on Gig Gab, Dave Hamilton sits down with guest co-host Rand Lempert of the Broken Rings, a two-piece recording project built on 15...