I have been in business all my working life...The best schedule is to maintain a steady busines....I personally never want (wanted) to be booked ahead ..more than a year..

There is no need to be booked that far in advance..music and otherwise (Contracting)..

It effects your way of life..if everything revolves around the dollar..it becomes a habit...I want to do what ever I want to do..and not plan it a year or two ahead of time..

In the contracting business, locking in a price for more than a year is foolish..and makes bad business..Could be the same in the music business..

I may have had a different approach than you guys..Music was /is for my enjoyment...not the dollar, abandoning family functions etc..is also foolish...you never get that time back..

3 or 4 months of a back schedule is way more than enough...Steady is the only important thing..and leave time in your schedule for the important stuff..