You moved to a new city where nobody knows your name. Now what? When Edgar Solorzano left Venezuela for South Florida ten years ago, his answer was simple: hit record. He took a GoPro to a country gig with a band of firefighters, posted the highlights, and kept posting every day: under a minute, the best moment of the night, replying to every comment, even the mean ones. When the only calls were for country gigs, he started posting slap covers of Level 42 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers until the phone rang for everything else. It’s the same move that started it all back home, where a 2006 YouTube video landed him in the busiest band in Maracaibo, playing up to six shows a night.
Then Edgar walks you through the working week: three or more nights of weddings, corporate gigs, casinos and clubs, almost no rehearsals, and what to do when you’ve pulled up the wrong charts for a 35-minute hora. You’ll hear how VAM Band’s system makes a gig easy to walk into, why Edgar turns the nanny tracks off, the in-ear mix where kick and bass melt into one instrument, and the dead-simple rig behind all those gig videos: an Insta360 X6 and a second in-ear receiver on the same channel. There’s also a warning about talkback culture before you go live, and yes, a detour to nerd out on Rush. Post the gig, share the gig, and Always Be Performing.
- 00:00:00 Gig Gab 559 – Monday, November 9th, 2026
- November 9th: World Ballet Day
- Guest co-host: Edgar Solorzano
- 00:02:00 First a full-time student…and posting videos
- 00:03:45 How I found Edgar (and the Rob Santoro connection)
- 00:05:04 Starts with Country Gigs
- 00:06:06 Building your profile
- Took my Go Pro, recorded the show
- 00:09:57 Getting the algorithm to recommend you
- Post every day
- Be less than a minute
- Find a highlight of the night
- 00:11:19 Reply to everything
- 00:13:56 The importance of playing multiple styles
- 00:17:37 Being the youngest member of the band
- 00:18:44 Publish to YouTube!
- 00:24:30 Time to Nerd out on RUSH
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- 00:30:35 Playing at least 3 nights per week
- Corporate gigs
- Wedding Gigs
- Casinos and Clubs
- VAM Band
- Paid rehearsals
- 00:32:24 Rarely rehearsing
- 00:33:25 Trying not to read on gigs
- 00:37:58 Playing with VAM Band
- 00:40:33 Nanny Tracks
- 00:43:10 The best in-ear mix
- Kick & Bass
- Snare, Hi-Hat
- Keys & Guitar
- Vocals
- Drum Overhead & Vocal Reverb
- 00:46:27 In-ears keep you in control
- Mixing yourself
- 00:49:36 Streetlight, the corporate/casino band
- 00:51:41 Clicks and tracks are just tools
- 00:53:04 Recording and Processing and Sharing your gigs
- Insta360 X6 – the best for musicians
- Two receivers
- And the talkback mic
- 01:00:11 Edgar’s in-ear rig
- 01:04:27 Gig Gab 559 Outro
- Contact Edgar Solorzano
- Contact Gig Gab!
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