Founding membership — first 20 members, $15/mo
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Fifteen dollars a month
buys the whole year.
A professional setup on your instrument, worth more than the membership costs. Free admission to every Guild Live night. Twenty per cent off the bench for everything after that. Priority when a gig is at stake. A directory of vouched-for players, a board of paid work, and member rates across Austin.
The first twenty memberships are held at the founding rate, and that rate never rises for the people who took it.
20 founding places remaining
Two ways in
The founding rate is capped and does not come back once the places are gone. The standard rate stays open. Nothing else differs except the guest passes.
Founding Member
The first twenty. This price never goes up for you.
or $15 a month, cancel any time
Paid annually, that is 2 months of the year at no charge.
20 of 20 places remaining
- One professional setup a year ($175 value)
- Free admission to Guild Live
- 4 guest passes a year
- Member repair pricing at Mythic
- Priority and emergency service
- Custom build access
- Verified profile in the artist directory
- Gig board and substitution network
- Partner discounts across Austin
- Founding member rate locked for life
Includes 4 guest passes a year.
Monthly billing can be chosen at checkout.
Member
Full membership. Everything the Guild does, open to you.
or $25 a month, cancel any time
Paid annually, that is 2 months of the year at no charge.
- One professional setup a year ($175 value)
- Free admission to Guild Live
- 2 guest passes a year
- Member repair pricing at Mythic
- Priority service
- Verified profile in the artist directory
- Gig board and substitution network
- Partner discounts across Austin
Includes 2 guest passes a year.
Monthly billing can be chosen at checkout.
The difference, in full
Two prices, two guest-pass allowances, one cap. Everything else is identical, and we would rather show that than claim it.
| Included | Founding | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly rate | $15 | $25 |
| Annual rate | $150 | $250 |
| Places available | First 20 only | Always open |
| Rate held for life of membership | Yes | Yes |
| Professional setup each year | Included | Included |
| Guild Live admission | Free | Free |
| Member presale, 48 to 72 hours | Yes | Yes |
| Guest passes a year | 4 | 2 |
| Member bench pricing | Yes | Yes |
| Priority and emergency service | Yes | Yes |
| Custom build access | Yes | Yes |
| Verified artist profile | Yes | Yes |
| Member directory, gig board, sub network | Yes | Yes |
| Partner discounts across Austin | Yes | Yes |
| Guild Credits | Yes | Yes |
The setup alone covers it.
The rest is the point.
One professional setup a year is worth $175 on its own, which is more than a founding membership costs for the whole twelve months. Put free admission to every Guild Live show beside it, then member bench pricing on every job that follows, priority and emergency turnaround when a gig is at stake, and partner discounts across the city, and the question stops being whether it pays for itself.
Annual is the better rate in every tier. It is also the one that lets us guarantee money to bands months before the door is counted, which is the whole reason the series works and the reason the bill is worth turning up for.
The figures below are counter prices, not estimates. Set them to your own year with the panel underneath.
- One professional setup a year
- $175
- Guild Live admission, six shows
- $120
- One average bench job at member rate
- Saves $26
- Member repair pricing on every job after
- Ongoing
- Priority and emergency service
- Ongoing
- Partner discounts across Austin
- Ongoing
- Gig board, directory and sub network
- Ongoing
Run it against your own year.
Three numbers. Nothing is rounded in our favour, and at low enough usage the panel will tell you the membership has not paid for itself yet.
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.
The list, with reasons
A benefits list tells you what arrives. It rarely tells you why it matters, which is the only part worth reading.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is not a discount card.
It is a wheel.
Every part of this pays for the next part. That is the whole design, and it is why the membership is cheap: it is not meant to earn out on dues, it is meant to fill rooms.
A musician joins
Fifteen dollars a month, or a hundred and fifty for the year.
The instrument gets set up
A professional setup, included, worth more than the year costs.
The discounts turn up
Strings, print, rehearsal rooms, food. Austin businesses, member rates.
They meet other players
A directory of vouched-for musicians, and a room they are already in.
Work follows
The gig board, the substitution network, the Showcase. Paid work, not exposure.
They come to Guild Live free
Every show, no door, plus the presale before anyone else sees it.
They bring people
Guest passes, and friends who buy tickets and stay for the next one.
Those friends join
They came for a band. They leave knowing what the membership is.
Businesses want in
A membership worth reaching is a membership worth partnering with.
The benefits get better
More partners, deeper discounts, more reason to join.
The shows get bigger
More members, more tickets, more sponsorship, larger guarantees.
And then it starts again, one turn wider. The eleventh step is the first step, which is why the founding rate is capped: the wheel is easiest to join before it is turning fast.
What it sounds like
from the inside.
“I joined for the setup and stayed for the phone calls. Three of the four gigs I played last quarter came off the board.”
“The guarantee is the thing. I have played rooms in this city for a decade and this is the first series where the money was agreed before the door opened.”
“We put a Guild night on midweek and it filled. The membership brought people who came back on their own.”
“The footage paid for the year by itself. I could not have afforded to shoot that, and it is mine.”
Attributed by role while the founding cohort is still being filled.
Reasons not to join,
answered properly.
I only play a few shows a year.
Then admission is not the reason to join, and we would rather say so. The setup is $175 at the counter and the membership is $150 for the year, so the bench alone puts you ahead before a single door. Everything after that — member repair pricing, priority when you need it, partner rates across the city — is on top of a number that already worked.
I already have a tech I trust.
Keep them. Nothing here obliges you to move your instrument, and a good relationship with a tech is worth more than a discount. Members use the Guild for the annual setup and the emergency job at four in the afternoon before a seven o’clock load-in, and take everything else where they always did.
I am not gigging yet.
This is the cheapest part of the year to join, and the part where the membership does the most. The directory, the gig board and the substitution network exist precisely for players nobody has called yet. Turning up to a Guild night as a member and meeting the room is how most first calls actually happen.
Twenty-five a month is real money.
It is, which is why the founding rate is fifteen and why we publish the arithmetic instead of asking you to take it on faith. Run the calculator with your own numbers. If it does not pay, do not join — a membership somebody resents is worth less to us than an empty slot.
Is this just a discount at a guitar shop?
No. The Guild is operated by LMBHC LLC and books its own shows, signs its own venues and pays its own artists. Mythic Guitar Company is the anchor partner, which is why the bench benefits are as good as they are. If Mythic vanished tomorrow the shows, the directory and the network would still be here.
What if I join and it turns out to be nothing?
Monthly memberships cancel at any point and run to the end of the month you have paid for. There is no notice period and nobody is going to ring you about it. We would rather you left cleanly than stayed out of inertia, and the founding rate you leave is the rate you would rejoin at inside the same year.
Partner membership
A separate arrangement for the rooms that host Guild nights and the businesses that serve the people playing them.
Venue Partner
For rooms that host Guild Live. Listed, promoted, and booked.
or $50 a month
- Venue Partner profile with booking contact
- Guild Live shows booked into your room
- We bring the artists, the audience and the marketing
- Listed on every show you host
- Access to the verified artist roster
- Co-promotion across Guild channels
Business Partner
Reach Austin working musicians directly. Tiered by what you want back.
or $50 a month
- Listing in the member partner directory
- Your offer in front of every Guild member
- Newsletter placement
- Show sponsorship available from $500
- Booth and product demo slots at Guild Live
- Packages from $50 to $500 a month by placement
What a venue gets
A booked, paid, promoted night that brings its own crowd, plus standing placement across the site and the newsletter. Venue arrangements are built around hosting rather than advertising, so the package is usually the smallest one.
What a business gets
Access to a membership that spends: print, rehearsal space, food, drink, services, gear. Your offer sits in front of people who already trust the Guild, which is a different thing from an advert they scroll past.
What it costs
Between $50 and $500 a month by placement — where you appear, how often, and whether you are attached to a night or a series. Write to us and we will tell you plainly which one fits, including when the answer is the cheapest one.
Questions we are asked
What counts as a musician?
Anyone who plays. There is no audition, and no requirement to be touring, signed or paid for it. If you own an instrument and use it, the musician tiers are for you. A verified public artist profile is a separate step, and it is optional.
Do I have to be gigging?
No, and the membership arguably does more for you if you are not. The directory, the gig board and the substitution network exist for players nobody has called yet. The first call is the hard one; being in the room when it goes out is most of the answer.
How does the free setup work?
Once in each membership year, bring an instrument to the bench and we set it up at no charge. It is booked like any other job rather than jumped to the front of the queue, and it covers the setup itself: strings, action, intonation, truss adjustment. Parts, fretwork and structural repair are billed separately, at member pricing.
Can people who are not members come to the shows?
Yes. Every Guild Live show is open to the public at the door price shown on the event, usually $15 to $30. Membership makes admission free and opens the presale window before general sale. Guild After Dark caps at 50 to 75, so it frequently sells out inside the member window.
What are guest passes?
A set number of admissions each year that you can hand to somebody who is not a member, so you can bring a partner, a bandmate, or the friend who has never been to one of these. They sit against your membership and are used at the door. Founding memberships carry four a year, standard carries two.
How do Guild Credits work?
You earn credit for the things that make the Guild function: bringing guests, turning up, referring a member who joins, performing, volunteering at a show, covering another member. Credit is spendable on bench services, merch, tickets and partner services. It is not cash and it does not expire while your membership is active.
What exactly is the presale?
Members see every show and can buy for it between 48 and 72 hours before it goes on public sale, depending on the series. For Guild Live it mostly means a better choice of night; for After Dark and the Showcase, where capacity is double figures, it is the difference between going and not.
How does cancellation work?
Monthly memberships can be cancelled at any point and run to the end of the month already paid for. There is no notice period. Annual memberships run to the end of the term and then simply stop unless renewed. Benefits already taken in that term, the annual setup in particular, are not refunded.
Is this Mythic Guitar Company under another name?
No. The Guild is operated by LMBHC LLC, and Mythic Guitar Company is its anchor partner. That relationship is why the bench benefits are as good as they are, but the Guild books its own shows, signs its own venues, pays its own artists and holds its own members. Other partners sit alongside Mythic rather than beneath it.
What happens when the founding places are gone?
They do not come back. Twenty founding memberships exist, and once they are taken the standard rate is the only musician rate. Anyone already holding a founding membership keeps the founding price for as long as the membership runs without a break — it is not an introductory year.
Why are the bands paid?
Because a series that does not pay attracts the acts that cannot say no, and everyone in the room can hear the difference. Guild Live guarantees between $500 and $1,500 a night before the door is counted. It is a brand position rather than a cost line, and it is the reason the bookings are as strong as they are.
How do artists get booked for a Guild show?
Through the roster. A verified profile makes you visible to us and to the venues, and the Showcase is deliberately drawn from members. We book to a genre night rather than to a favour, so the practical route is a complete profile, a live link worth watching, and turning up to a few nights so we know what you are like to work with.
What do venue and business partnerships actually cost?
Between $50 and $500 a month depending on placement — where you appear, how often, and whether you are attached to a series or a single night. Venue partners are structured around hosting rather than advertising. Write to us and we will tell you plainly which package fits what you are trying to reach, including if the answer is the cheapest one.
Can a band hold one membership between them?
Membership is individual, because most of what it carries — the setup, the bench pricing, the profile, the sub network — attaches to a person rather than to a project. Bands where every member joins get the most out of it, and if that is the plan write to us before you sign up.
The rate you join at
is the rate you keep.
Twenty founding memberships, then that price is gone for good. Monthly cancels whenever you like, so the worst case is fifteen dollars and a setup you were going to pay for anyway.
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