Experiment: Band Mangement: Blog 11: Pickled Eggs

I am managing “Band A” this year – because I believe in “Band A” and because I’m interested in exploring the current music business world. The goal is: 1) get “Band A” onto a minor label, 2) get “Band A” to play a music festival, and 3) to get “Band A” a hundred people at a show. I want to be clear this isn’t a joke and I am grateful to all the people who intersect with this project. If “Band A” plays on the radio, if a publication writes about “Band A” – I have nothing but the most honest gratitude. (I’m saying this because “Band A” is being played on the radio and it is about to get it’s first press.)
Honestly, I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m tangentially involved with a couple of bands. I run the instagram for “Band A” and it is going nowhere. The other band has an instagram and a radio station started following them… 
So this blog is my honest assessment of how the music industry works. And this is what works: Pickled Eggs.
On Sunday “Band A” was set to play at a local brewery, except it didn’t have enough band members. So they joined up with another band, met at 1pm, and figured out 12 songs they could kind of play. One of the band members made pickled eggs: hardboiled eggs, brine, jalapenos. Why not? And, at 4pm, the pickled eggs were displayed prominently at the front of the stage. This is for real. I’m not making this up. The guitarist, who is a bit of a wimp, ate an egg at the end of the second set and nearly threw up. Then a member of the audience went up to the stage, put an egg in his beer glass, and drank it down. Everyone cheered.
So the surprise twist ending is that after the show the guy from the audience went up to the band and said: “Hey, I own a bar in Morganton. Can I book you to play at my place?” 
This is how you get ahead: pickled eggs.