Musician’s pay

Its time for musicians to resume booking their own gigs. Let’s cut out the pointless middle men. Why do we need someone to get us the same local gigs that we can get ourselves. They take their cut but yet rely on artist to promote the show. If a promoter or booking agent can book gigs that are out of artists reach, then by all means they should be paid a handling fee. However, so many times this is not the case. Like I said before who needs em!!!