Typical setup around here is that you don't get paid unless you are good enough to make it through until you do your first gig. At which, everyone splits the cash upon completing the show. Generally, the issues with folks here also, is finding a good guitarist who isn't a complete and total ego-maniac. Nor a player who gets too drunk/stoned to play.
If you can get yourself a drummer, and a singer, the three of you could play very small clubs. The bar I work for hires incomplete bands, just duo's and such to play. The pay works out to roughly $80 per person for 4 hours of playing. Nothing fantastic, but for two people, it's a chance to play for the love of it and make some extra cash. For the guys with families, its cash for the family to go out to dinner and enjoy themselves. The ones who are old enough to actually get to the bar and have dinner and a cocktail do so while the band is playing as well.
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If you can get yourself a drummer, and a singer, the three of you could play very small clubs. The bar I work for hires incomplete bands, just duo's and such to play. The pay works out to roughly $80 per person for 4 hours of playing. Nothing fantastic, but for two people, it's a chance to play for the love of it and make some extra cash. For the guys with families, its cash for the family to go out to dinner and enjoy themselves. The ones who are old enough to actually get to the bar and have dinner and a cocktail do so while the band is playing as well.