Founding membership — first 20 members, $15/mo
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All of it,
with the reasons.
A benefits list tells you what arrives. It almost never tells you why it matters, which is the only part worth reading. Below is every single thing a Mythic Guild membership carries, what it is, and what it is actually for.
Founding rate $150 a year, or $15 a month, capped at twenty people. Standard $250 a year.
The bench
Mythic Guitar Company is the anchor partner, and this is the part of membership you can put your hands on. It is also the part that pays for the year before anything else is counted.
One professional setup a year
A full setup on one instrument, once each membership year: strings, action, intonation, truss and nut height, checked and dialled in properly.
It is $175 at the counter, which is more than a founding year costs. Practically, a correctly set-up instrument is the difference between practising and avoiding practice — most players who believe they have plateaued are fighting their action.
Member bench pricing
Twenty per cent off labour on every job after the included setup: fret dresses, refrets, nuts, electronics, structural work.
The annual setup is the headline, but the repairs are where a working player actually spends. A gigging musician puts several hundred a year across a bench without noticing; this takes a fifth off all of it, permanently.
Priority and emergency service
Members go to the front for time-critical work, and we will open the bench for a genuine emergency before a show.
A truss rod that lets go at four in the afternoon before a seven o’clock load-in is not a repair problem, it is a cancelled gig and a venue that remembers. This is the benefit nobody values until the one day they need it, and then it is the only one that matters.
Custom build access
Members can commission through the custom programme, with member pricing on the build and a place in the queue.
Custom slots are limited by the number of hours in a year. Membership is how those hours get allocated to the people who are actually in the room.
The stage
Two Guild Live nights a month, a showcase series, and small premium rooms. Members walk in free, see everything first, and leave with the footage when they play.
Free Guild Live admission
Every Guild Live night, no door charge, for the whole membership year. Public admission is $15 to $30 depending on the room and the bill.
At two shows a month the admission alone outruns the dues before summer. More importantly it removes the decision — you stop weighing twenty dollars against a Tuesday and simply turn up, which is how you end up knowing everyone.
The 48 to 72 hour member presale
Members see and buy every show before it goes on general sale.
Guild After Dark caps at 50 to 75 people. When a room is that small the presale is not a convenience, it is the difference between attending and reading about it.
Guest passes
A set number of admissions each year, yours to hand to somebody who is not a member. Founding memberships carry four, standard carries two.
You were going to bring someone anyway. This makes it free for you, and it puts a person who has never heard of the Guild in a room where a paid band is playing well — which is the most persuasive thing we own.
The Guild Showcase
A separate series: five members, twenty-minute sets, professional sound, multi-camera video and stills, industry guests and scouts in the room.
This is the point at which membership stops being a discount and becomes a career step. Twenty minutes, done properly, in front of people who book things.
Guild After Dark
Premium nights capped at 50 to 75 people: an acoustic set, a Q and A, a meet and greet, gear demonstrations, food and drink. Cheap for members, priced properly for everyone else.
Small rooms are where people actually meet. The cap is the product, not a limitation, and members get first refusal on it.
Guild Live Sessions
Every Guild show filmed on multiple cameras with a feed from the desk. The artist keeps the footage and retains ownership of their music.
A live video shoot of that quality is not something most independent artists can fund. There is no rights grab and no licence buried in a booking form: play a Guild show and leave with material that is yours.
The network
The half of a music career that is not playing. Who you can call, who can call you, and where the paid work is posted before it reaches anybody else.
A verified artist profile
A public page in the artist directory: bio, genres, lineup size, typical draw, links, photographs. Verified by us.
Anybody can list themselves anywhere. The value here is the verification — a booker working through this directory is not gambling, which is precisely why they use it instead of a comment thread.
The member directory
The private side of the same list: who plays what, at what level, and how to reach them.
Most bands are assembled out of coincidence. This replaces coincidence with a searchable list of vouched-for players in the same city.
The gig board
Paid work posted to members: venue slots, session dates, deputy calls, private functions.
Work in this city moves through private messages and always has, which means it reaches whoever is already known. The board is an attempt to make that reachable without a decade of scene tenure behind you.
The substitution network
A standing list of members who will cover a date at short notice, by instrument and by genre.
Losing a player three days out currently means cancelling and taking the reputational hit. With a sub network it means one message. It protects the fee and it protects the relationship with the room.
Member events, workshops and Guild Nights
Regular gatherings for members only: technique and gear workshops, business-of-music sessions, and social nights.
Careers are made of introductions far more often than of talent. This is the machinery for making the introductions happen on a schedule rather than by luck.
The member newsletter
Written rather than blasted: what is booked, what is open, who is looking for whom, and what changed.
A membership you forget about is a membership you cancel. This is how the gig board and the presale actually reach you rather than sitting on a page you never revisit.
The city
Austin businesses that give member rates because members are the customers they want, and a credit system that pays members back for the work they do for each other.
Partner discounts across Austin
Member rates at every partner business: rehearsal rooms, print, studios, food, drink, services.
The least glamorous benefit on the list and quietly the one that returns the dues on its own. It also grows without you doing anything — every partner added is added to your membership at no extra cost.
Venue partners
Rooms with standing Guild arrangements, listed publicly, with what each one offers members written on the page.
A venue that has already agreed terms with the Guild is a venue you can approach as a member rather than as a stranger with an email address.
Guild Credits
Credit earned for bringing guests, attending shows, referring members, performing, volunteering and helping other members. Spendable on Mythic services, merch, tickets, events and partner services.
It pays for the behaviour that makes the Guild work. The people who bring their friends and cover other members are the reason any of this functions, and they should not be doing it for nothing.
What membership
does not cover.
Parts, strings and materials
The included setup covers the labour and a set of strings. Pickups, tuners, bone nuts, wiring looms and fret wire are billed at cost plus member pricing. We will always quote before we order.
Structural and fret work
Refrets, neck resets, crack repair and finish work are separate jobs at member rates, not part of the annual setup. They are the sort of work that takes days, and pretending otherwise would only mean disappointing you later.
A guaranteed slot on a Guild bill
Membership makes you visible and eligible; it does not book you. We programme to a genre night and to what an act will do in a room. What membership guarantees is that we are looking at you at all.
A second free setup
One a year, on one instrument. Additional setups run at member pricing, which is twenty per cent off the counter rate.
Admission to non-Guild events
Free admission covers Guild Live. After Dark and the Showcase are reduced for members rather than free, because they are capped rooms with production costs that do not scale.
Refunds on benefits already taken
If you cancel a membership after the annual setup has been done, that setup is not refunded. Everything else simply stops at the end of the period you have paid for.
What the list is worth in your year.
The benefits above that can be priced, priced. The ones that cannot — the board, the network, the presale — are left off, which means this panel understates the case rather than overstating it.
Guild Live runs about two nights a month. Public admission sits around $20.
A professional setup is $175 at the counter. Your first one each year is included.
Fret work, a nut, electronics. We have used $130 as an average job; members pay twenty per cent less on labour.
Door prices and counter rates, paid one at a time.
Dues of $150 included, admission free, first setup included.
Covered by month 6. Everything after that is the membership working for you.
- Admission, 6 shows
- $120 → Free
- Setups, 1
- $175 → $0
- Repairs, 1
- $130 → $104
- Membership
- — → $150
Not counted here: the gig board, the substitution network, the member presale, guest passes, partner discounts across Austin and Guild Credits. Between them they are worth more than the figures above, and none of them can be priced honestly on a slider.
Twenty people get in at fifteen a month.
Then that number is gone.
Not a launch promotion. The founding rate is held for the people who joined before there was anything to look at, and it does not rise for them afterwards.
The inner circle
New builds drop here first.
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