For starters, cops are everywhere…

Don’t get me wrong, I think they’re the most underpaid, under appreciated lot to have to walk the earth, but as one who’s typically behind the wheel after the bars close, The Sheriff of Nottingham is out in force looking to generate some revenue. Even if you haven’t been drinking, you’d better have current tags or the man’s going to take your car right then and there and let you take the shoe-leather express home. You’d better keep your nose clean, boy…

Aside from that, when it comes to gigs, we always got paid in cash for small to medium size venues… Not so anymore my friends… Suddenly it seems now, any venue of consequence is going to want a 1099 from you… Getting paid “under the table” used to be commonplace and believe me, it was great having that walk around cash to take you through the week but now… The tax man is hammering the clubs so the clubs are hammering us…

Unfortunately, our band had to form an LLC in order to “do business” with these clubs. One potential upside is, things like strings and all music related equipment now becomes tax deductible (for now) so you can potentially realize some benefit there. The beef I have with all this? I just wanna play music, if I wanted to become a businessman, I would have got a real job