Oh man, you got band fucked.

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I can't say how many times the "frontman" of one of my old bands would let bands do that, leaving us playing to the bartenders, then try to justify it by saying "well, they'll hit us back next time."

We never got "hit back." We wound up becoming the local "filler" band that looked good on the posters and always ended up playing to nobody, having to provide either the full backline or bring all of our own gear, and get pushed out of shows because of bullshit reasons. I got kicked out because I started telling the bands that were pushing us around "no, fuck you," in front of the guy in my band. I had shit to do, and I was done with the bullshit. Alas, I was just the horn in a ska/punk band, so I was deemed replaceable.