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Brian Cook (Russian Circles) Juan Alderete (The Mars Volta, Racer-X) Carlos D (Interpol) John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) Troy Sandes (Mastodon) Stu Brooks (Dub Trio) Roy Mitchell (Mutemath) Justin Chancellor (Tool) Chris Bierden (Poliça) this one is recent Colin Greenwood (Radiohead)

In my experience I found that is very difficult to be payed when you're relative unknown. Being in an instrumental band and being in Portugal it's very difficult to play and being rewarded by that. Here we don't have the same music culture has I imagine that you have in uk and we don't have also the money. So nobody wants to loose money, not the promoters not the owners of the "pubs", they don't care if you invested a lot in your album or music, they want a band and we need to play live in other to be better musicians and get visibility and name, so we need to put our money to cover part of the expenses (gas, food, drinks) unless we play local. Even mainstream promoters try to put bands playing for free in some big festivals or has opening act to a big international name has change of visibility for that band and this is outrageous because everybody is earning money except the local band. Yes, I'm paying to play but hope that my band can change that during the next year. At least in Portugal.

My pedalboard so far.