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Short a Player?

FILL-IN MUSICIANS

HOW IT WORKS

A Drummer Down
Shouldn't Cancel the Show.

Bands end up a player short more often than anyone likes to admit — someone gets sick, someone quits two days before the run, someone's flight never lands. Far West keeps a list of working musicians who take fill-in work, so the date gets covered instead of cancelled.

If you sub on drums, bass, guitar, steel, fiddle, keys, horns, vocals or any other instrument — or you run sound — add yourself below. It costs nothing, and you decide whether to take any date we bring you.

Your phone number and email are never shown publicly. When a band wants you for a date, the request comes to you by email from Far West with their details attached. If it interests you, you reply to them directly. If it doesn't, you ignore it or decline in one click — nothing about you gets handed over either way.

I Need a Player I Am a Player
SHORT A PLAYER?

Tell Us What You Need

Don't go hunting through profiles — tell us the instrument, the date and the town, and we'll work it. We know who's around, including players who aren't on this page yet.

The Date
Times for the day — optional, but it's what decides whether someone can say yes

Fill in whatever you know. A 4pm load-in rules out anyone with a day job; a midnight downbeat rules out a long drive home. Leave the rest blank.

You

* Required. A person reads every one of these. If the show is in the next day or two, text (432) 538-4009 as well — we'll see it faster.

WHO'S AVAILABLE

Players Taking Fill-In Dates

All Drums Percussion Bass Guitar Upright Bass Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar Pedal Steel Lap Steel / Dobro Fiddle / Violin Banjo Mandolin Keys / Piano Harmonica Horns (Sax / Trumpet / Trombone) Lead Vocals Backing Vocals Sound Engineer
ric bianchi

ric bianchi

Percussion, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Fiddle / Violin, Banjo, Mandolin, Keys / Piano, Harmonica, Backing Vocals

Genoa, IL · travels 100 mi

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Willie G

Willie G

Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin

Austin, TX · travels 100 mi

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GET ON THE LIST

Add Yourself as a Fill-In

Tell us what you play, where you are, and how far you'll drive. We review every signup before it goes on the list.

You
Something We Can Hear

Optional, but a band deciding between two players almost always picks the one they can hear. A single live video does more than any of the rest.

How We Reach You

Kept private. Neither of these is ever shown on the site — they are how we pass a band's request to you.

Anything Else

* Required fields. We review every signup before it goes on the list. Far West introduces musicians to each other — pay, terms and the gig itself are between you and the band.