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NJ STAGE - ISSUE 46
renting a venue and playing
a showcase -- but it was tacky,
and the plan didn’t always work.
Sometimes, venue managers
wouldn’t allow an uninvited cou-
ple a glimpse through the door
of a wedding reception in prog-
ress. Sometimes, peekers were
treated rudely and told to leave.
It was a shabby way to treat a
prospect and bad for the band’s
business.
Less tacky, was putting out the
word -- in some way primitive
by today’s standards -- that the
band would be playing a public
gig at a club where prospective
clients could see them. But that
wasn’t perfect either, as the peo-
ple would have to imagine the
band in tuxedos, and there was
no indication that the band knew
how to play a wedding, which
requires some special skills.
With the advent of quality con-
sumer-level video cameras, in-
dependent bands and the large
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