AcidRadio - The band, the business

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It's funny how things that started out as an inside joke amongst friends has turned into 16 years of being together. AcidRadio has had it's fair share of players coming in and going out but I've remained constant in it. Heck it's not even making much money but I have 3 other guys who work just as har as I am to maintain it. Over the years I think I've already invested more than 100K into this band for instruments, practices, social activities and we've also been paid almost that amount so I think we're just breaking even. And I believe each member of the band has also contributed about 50K of their money for their personal instruments and other miscellaneous thing. We never really intended to make money out of it and that's why it started out as a thrash metal band, over the years and a lot of paradigm shifts later we turned into a hard rock unit. We started out by crashing into a gig and eventually getting a small following. We're still constantly playing in gigs and venues, mostly in bars and getting paid isn't too much of a problem anymore for us. It's kind of our escape from the daily grind we have to face. All of us are busy working but when a gig comes up, everything gets dropped just so we could play. We have videos on youtube too it's http://www.youtube.com/acidradiotheband which will show some of the places we've played in. Videos were taken by whoever's GF was available to take it.