The Pros and Cons of Being a Band Leader - #69

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🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In this episode, Adam and Peter list some advantages and disadvantages of being a leader vs. being a side-player. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Here at Podcast.
0:32.2	Hey, everybody. Today, we're going to talk about being a band leader versus being a side man or side woman. Yeah, I mean, it's really just about who gives you the money,
0:36.8	right? Right. It's like,
0:38.6	who has the money at the end of the night? All right, podcast over. Great. All right, I'll try it again.
0:44.6	Did I look disapproving? Yeah. Today we're going to talk about being a band leader versus
0:50.4	being a side man or side woman. Okay, controversial point. You're talking about side man, side woman like supportive musicians on a gig, not like maybe someone you step out with. Like side piece? Yeah. No, no, no, no. We're not even going to go down that path on this. It's a separate podcast. Okay, good, good. You've got to search another place for that one. That's great. So this comes from a question from Joe in our Facebook group. It's up, Joe. Yep.
0:54.2	And I mean, podcast. You've got to search another place for that one. That's great. So this comes from a question
1:11.6	from Joe in our Facebook group. What's up, Joe? Yeah. And I mean, you know, he's asking about
1:16.1	kind of the pros and cons of each sort of our takes on that. And I don't know if we've ever talked
1:20.8	about this much. I mean, I think we've both been in situations as leaders and as sideman and probably enjoy them both.
1:32.2	I mean, for me, I've probably spent more time.
1:34.5	I've definitely spent more time touring as a sideman.
1:36.9	Yeah, me too.
1:37.2	So I sort of know that more.
1:38.9	But then I've done a lot of sort of trio gigs, solo piano.
1:42.9	And, you know, from a musical perspective, I don't differentiate from them a lot on the gig.
1:49.3	I see a lot of the sort of leadership stuff, band leader being all the things around the
1:55.0	gig, like sort of preparing for the gig, making sure the music is together.
1:58.5	And, you know, sometimes on the touring stuff that I do, I'm doing that anyway as music director. Right. But even that, I feel like in the jazz world, the music is together. And, you know, sometimes on the touring stuff that I do, I'm doing that anyway as music
2:01.7	director.
2:02.6	Right.
2:02.9	But even that, I feel like in the jazz world, the mentality of a player, like once we're
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