That's the way - salesmanship.  Haha!  I was in a group when I was in high school, and we used to play ANYWHERE, including street corners.  The Dallas Morning News once printed a picture of us playing on a railroad track.  Honestly, I don't remember why we were playing there!  Hahaha!!  But, it did get us some publicity for our song, "Throwing Enchiladas at the Wall".  That song could have been big down here, but we didn't promote it, we just wrote it to be silly.