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09-23-2007, 09:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Elk River, Minnesota | | | How do you fund your new gear?
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Normal income, gig money, a combination, or some other way? |
09-23-2007, 09:52 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | The majority of it comes from gig money,if it's not already allocated to bills.
I rarely buy new gear these days, I'm too selective and buy it then, and buy it once. The money used thereafter is primarily for upkeep / maintenance / repair.
I gig often (twice a week) , but not enough to support heavy g.a.s. 
Maybe when the kids are grown. |
09-23-2007, 10:02 AM
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Staff Writer: Bass Musician Magazine, Endorsing Artist: Please see bio | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Kalamazoo, MI | | | Most of any new gear I get is usually first from selling old gear. I've been thinning the herd, due to not wanting to keep instruments around that I wouldn't take to a show. So, I have a revolving door, so to speak, of instruments that I may like and play for a while and then sell because they just don't stand up.
Any other money used for gear comes from the shows/gigs I do. Doing theatre work, it's easy to see how much money you'll get from a show up front, so you know what you can and can't do with it. |
09-23-2007, 11:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Phoenix. Az. | | | I eliminate most of my non-essential expenditures, save up and apply my normal income, side job and gig money to buying mostly high-quality used vintage gear, and pass on the items that aren't priced way below market value.
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09-23-2007, 12:02 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | Gigs and gear turnover. |
09-23-2007, 12:33 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | I don't have too many expenses, so saving up generally. Or gear turnover. |
09-23-2007, 12:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | gear turnover and poker. when i play steadily i make a pretty consistant income from fulltilt poker as well as local tournaments and casino visits. the gear buying has been on hold for awhile though as i just bought a car this summer :-) ....i think a lakland joe osborn will be in my hands this week though!!!!
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09-23-2007, 12:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | | Drug money. And pimping.
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Originally Posted by fdeck  Of course I plug my little amp into a power system known in the industry as THAT OUTLET OVER THERE. :D | |
09-23-2007, 12:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Gear turnover mostly.
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09-23-2007, 02:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Scotland | | | My wife being nice to me. |
09-23-2007, 02:30 PM
| | saahweet | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: New Jersey | | | bounty hunting
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basses - spector rebop 5 , sx jazz
amps - carvin B1500, ashdown 4x10
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09-23-2007, 02:36 PM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | My day job is my source for gear money. |
09-23-2007, 02:39 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Auburn Nebraska | | | I work the corner. |
09-23-2007, 02:41 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Hard work. |
09-23-2007, 04:55 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TrooperFarva Drug money. And pimping. |
From what I've gathered it ain't easy. |
09-23-2007, 05:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tomkins Cove, New York | | | Drug Money for me too. |
09-23-2007, 05:14 PM
| | | | Half my gig money goes in a jar... (rest goes on petrol and a contribution to keeping my wife happy). When the jar is nice and full I can buy what I like without worrying about it.
Of course I currenty "owe" the jar $500... ;-)
Ian |
09-23-2007, 05:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Johnson From what I've gathered it ain't easy. | A sad fact, but it's necessary.
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Originally Posted by fdeck Of course I plug my little amp into a power system known in the industry as THAT OUTLET OVER THERE. :D | |
09-24-2007, 03:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | I hang out after overeaters anonymous meetings and sell cupcakes 
actually, I'm too poor to fund new gear...  ...but my old stuff is just fine... |
09-24-2007, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Brad Johnson Gigs and gear turnover. | 
Me too. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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