What's up, everybody, Adam Manus here, and this week we are doing best of episodes of the You'll Hear podcast.

Peter is gigging out of town. And it's the middle of August, summertime,

and thought it would be a nice time to take a little break.

But we are doing these curated best-of episodes, mostly from the first half of our run here.

We've been going hard at it since January, so we have quite a few to choose from.

But today's theme is gigs.

These are episodes of the You'll Hear at podcast all about gigs and our experiences and how to get them and a whole bunch of good stuff.

So hope you enjoy.

If you get a gig, you want to keep the gig, right?

Ideally.

So the first thing I think about

actually has nothing to do with music, and that is personality. And that's basically being somebody

that others want to work with. I guess we could look at a gig, like a solo piano gig,

and you might say, well, you don't need to get along with anyone with your personality,

but you still have to get along with the audience in some respects. But a lot of times we're talking

about getting a gig and keeping a gig. It's interacting with other people, usually on the bandstand.

And so I think the same things that really are simple and work in life in terms of having the kind of personality that people want to be around,

somebody that's listening, somebody that's contributing, somebody that's part of the conversation.

You can't be too inward thinking just to your own thing.

So I mean, develop your personality.

If you've got a good personality, just be confident and let all that out on the gig and then other people

are going to want to work with you. If you've got a crappy personality, maybe try to change some

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