if your band made it

[dreadheadbass]

ok lets assume you band gets signed lets assume your the biggest hit since the beatles lets assume you set the music industry on fire and lets pretend you had more money than sense (about 50p if your a guitarist)

how would you use/abuse your fame/wealth would you cure world hunger? would you request that a certain company produced your own signature bass? if so what would it be like?
where would you live how would you live etc?

i'd pay people to follow JK from jamiroqui around just to see if he'd kick off with them

i'd buy a the most posh and expensive house i could find the park scrap cars on the lawn

i'd also pay for bono and bob geldorf's execution (for the good of mankind you see)

c'mon what whackey things would you do? maybe you'd just live the quiet life i dunno

[Bob Clayton]

queit life.

i like being on stage... but not really in it for the "fame"

[Eric Moesle]

Originally Posted by dreadheadbass

ok lets assume you band gets signed lets assume your the biggest hit since the beatles lets assume you set the music industry on fire

Under the current stage of the music industry and this scenario, you'd be broke. You'd have no money to do any of those things. "Getting signed" these days is like signing a big 'ol I.O.U., and "setting the music industry on fire" with your first album will only serve to make you bills bigger.

[peaveyuser]

Originally Posted by Bob Clayton

queit life.

i like being on stage... but not really in it for the "fame"

same also do some charity work, not come off as a douche though.

[mike_v_s]

Originally Posted by dreadheadbass

... and lets pretend you had more money than sense

I'd pay Lifter to record their second album, fund their tour and hope I wouldn't be too much of a dork for tagging along.

Mike

[The Golden Boy]

I'd say "I was thinking of taking up heroin, now this clinches it!!"

[bryan bailey]

I'd have an extra 100 dollar bill in my pocket at all times and if someone impresses me enough, just give it to them.

[lunarpollen]

I have a feeling that if the band I'm in made it, we'd probably end up funding the provision of buckets for depressed elephant seals, and various random stuff for manatees.

[Sneckumhaw]

Put it all on the 6 horse on the nose in the fifth race at Belmont Park.

[Nicka]

Screw hot tubs, a massive tour bus, and expensive cars. Give me the chance to earn a good living to support my family and allow me to play music exclusively as my career. IMO of coarse.

[Aged_Clayman]

A tour bus, ultimately. I`ve recently seen an interview with Marcus Miller, they`ve shown his bus, and, man, that is the life to live. You can order a drive to anywhere and rehearse at the same time. I mean, I now know what my life-long wish is

[Techmonkey]

I'd brag to every girl I ever met that was moderately attractive.

beyond that... I'd probably be relatively charitable, I'd have a semi-lavish life with a pretty big house, pretty nice car, but nothing too extreme.

[jomahu]

i'd do too many things and go broke before i knew it.

i'd definitely get a signature bass, but i'd donate my share to the darfur effort...or an immigrant women's fund or something.

[McHaven]

I'd fulfill all the contractual obligations of the contract and play that game for awhile until I was free and had the capital to start recording whatever I want and release it independently.

Before I was able to do that, I'd just use the money to buy a house, a studio and gear.

Basically what I'm saying is, I'm willing to pretend to be a rockstar for awhile before I can be secure playing music that I really love.

[toaster2k3]

I'd produce an adequately poor hip-hop album with Yoko-Ono.

[bigfatbass]

I'd make sure all the kittehs has cheezburgr

[mjolnir]

Originally Posted by Eric Moesle

Under the current stage of the music industry and this scenario, you'd be broke. You'd have no money to do any of those things. "Getting signed" these days is like signing a big 'ol I.O.U., and "setting the music industry on fire" with your first album will only serve to make you bills bigger.

That is such a sad notion.

[MirageBass]

Originally Posted by lunarpollen

I have a feeling that if the band I'm in made it, we'd probably end up funding the provision of buckets for depressed elephant seals, and various random stuff for manatees.

NOO THEY BE STEALIN MAH BUKKET

Personally, I would just get a nice house and invest everything else. What happend next depends on the scenario.

[Pacman]

Originally Posted by Nicka

Screw hot tubs, a massive tour bus, and expensive cars. Give me the chance to earn a good living to support my family and allow me to play music exclusively as my career. IMO of coarse.

This is great! Musicians should look at these priorities.




It also describes my career so far! Sweet....

[ADbassman]

Signature bass, for sure.

Not only would Ibanez have to reproduce my ugly ass bass, including the tempra paint, they would also have to make a reissue of the Musician bass. Everybody wins!