Put me anywhere. I will run the show the same as I always do.

interesting...i don't know if i could say that.

When I say I would run it the same way at any bar, I meant I am who I am, and I have my own personality. I don't change that. What I do change is my music depending on the crowd at hand. I am not going to play hip hop all night in a country bar, for example. It also changes the songs I sing. At my friday show, there tend to be older people there. I won't sing Metallica and Judas Priest. I will sing Billy Joel, Dean Martin, and more bluesy stuff. I save the heavier stuff for my fill in show, which is a more rock and metal oriented crowd. I am starting a new show tomorrow night. I know the place well. It is a rock PALACE!! This is going to be fun!!

Well you'd also have to adapt to the bar IF they had any kind of 'language' restriction.

This weekend I have a fellow KJ filling in for me on Saturday. She has a couple folks that work for her and she is sending one of them to run the show....

... I pay them my rate plus $50. It is a great arrangement and I am perfectly happy with it as are they.

I'm a bit confused here. You pay this Fill-in more than what you would make for the show if you were running it? Or, when you refer to "My Rate," do you mean the rate that you pay your KJs for the gig (which would be less than what you actually make if you were running the show)?

I think successful KJ's have to be chameleons. Even if they work only one location, but especially of they work multiple venues. Different bars have different vibes and different crowds. A KJ has to adapt to that.

I have covered for others and others have covered for me. But only because there was a need, not just for the heck of it. I don't see the point of doing it "just because". I think to much drama would ensue when doing it for the heck of it.

They are doing me a favor, so I show my appreciation for it.
Also, not that I am too concerned with it, I also consider it insurance against sniping the gig. Why would they try to take it from me if they get paid more for filling in?

Playing Devil's Advocate here.... Let's say you are making $200 a night for that show. You ask this person to fill-in for you once in a blue moon (for whatever reason when you can't be available to run the show yourself), and you pay her $250 to do so. Now, let's say this is a weekly gig on Monday nights, and you only use this person once each month. That person might start to think that he/she would only get $150 for that show if he/she had booked it, so why not steal it from you by undercutting you, and then he/she would be making $600 a month instead of $250 for that weekly gig.