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View Poll Results: Appropriate message on T-shirt for free (non-paying) show. | |
Stick with "**** Playing For Free
|    | 11 | 21.15% | |
Translate it to Cyrillic or something for added irony
|    | 11 | 21.15% | |
Don't do it, a move like that will cost ye.
|    | 18 | 34.62% | |
What do you have to lose, so have some fun.
|    | 10 | 19.23% | |
Will Play For Carrots
|    | 46 | 88.46% |
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01-21-2011, 10:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burlington, Vermont vt | | | "**** Playing For Free T-Shirt for next free show
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Hi Folks,
Thinking of stenciling on a T-shirt: "**** Playing For Free" to wear for the next damn free show I have to play. Who Likee?
Edit:
How about:
Every time I play for free Jesus kills an unborn baby kitten.
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Last edited by billoetjen : 01-21-2011 at 10:33 PM.
Reason: New thought.
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01-21-2011, 10:23 PM
|  | Let's play! | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indy | | Nuthin' like being a walking contradiction. 
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01-21-2011, 10:27 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Yeah, sorta of mixed signals.
Might be better to try something like "I played a gig and all I got was this fine t-shirt". Or in the present tense if you want. You might also want to change the word "fine" 
Or better yet, "I played a gig and I didn't even get this fine t-shirt". |
01-21-2011, 10:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Kingston, TN | | | And here I thought people play music because they enjoy it. |
01-21-2011, 10:28 PM
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Head Tinkerer, The Flufflab | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: California | | | Or, "F**K, I'm playing for free AGAIN"
(given, I've never got more than a case of beer out of a gig myself...)
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01-21-2011, 10:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burlington, Vermont vt | | Quote:
Originally Posted by UncleFluffy  Or, "F**K, I'm playing for free AGAIN"
This, I like.
(given, I've never got more than a case of beer out of a gig myself...) | Not bad, if it was Guinness.
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01-21-2011, 10:37 PM
| | | 'cept when the free gig is a benefit to help pay for your friend's kid's cancer treatments...  |
01-21-2011, 10:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burlington, Vermont vt | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hotrodjohn 'cept when the free gig is a benefit to help pay for your friend's kid's cancer treatments... |
Well, yeah, but who's counting those?
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01-21-2011, 10:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chicago SW 'burbs | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Classickbass And here I thought people play music because they enjoy it. | Yeah good point...
...however...
Gas isn't free. Drumheads & sticks wear out. Strings need replacement. Speakers get tired & get reconed/replaced.
If you're going to play for free, might as well stay in the basement/garage/practice space. You can "enjoy" playing music there, without schlepping gear, dealing with drunken @$%^&*es yelling "Freebird"...etc.
If I'm going to go to the trouble of draggin my gear, showing up at X time, playing a Y minute setlist, somebody's going to come up with something...doesn't have to be a fortune, but $$$ crossing hands is the universal symbol of respect. No $$$, no respect for what you bring to the table.
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01-21-2011, 10:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Las Vegas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassplayer8953 drunken @$%^&*es yelling "Freebird".... | ugh~ that's the wost & it always seems like it's the same farting, belching, but light drinking hillbilly that wants to hear it.
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01-21-2011, 10:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burlington, Vermont vt | | | Rickenbacker didn't ship that axe to me for free. The bloody club owner doesn't expect to work for free....
Christ, how many hours of individual and group practice brought us to that stage? Comprende?
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01-21-2011, 10:50 PM
|  | Wish'n I was at the beach! | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Edit the text on the attached picture like this -
"F*ck pl*y*ng f*r fr** - would you like to buy a vowel?"
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Last edited by phmike : 01-21-2011 at 10:52 PM.
Reason: typo
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01-21-2011, 10:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burlington, Vermont vt | | Quote:
Originally Posted by phmike Edit the text on the attached picture like this -
"F*ck pl*y*ng f*r fr** - would you like to buy a vowel?" | Not a pretty image, but we're getting s*m*wh*r*.
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01-21-2011, 10:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Kingston, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassplayer8953 dealing with drunken @$%^&*es yelling "Freebird" | Oh hell no! |
01-21-2011, 11:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lubbock, TX | | If you agreed to the free gig, then wearing a shirt that complains about it is pointless. The audience doesn't know what you get paid, and the person who booked you won't care because you're already on stage for free.
Wearing it while negotiating the terms of a gig... different story |
01-21-2011, 11:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burlington, Vermont vt | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Love If you agreed to the free gig, then wearing a shirt that complains about it is pointless. The audience doesn't know what you get paid, and the person who booked you won't care because you're already on stage for free.
Wearing it while negotiating the terms of a gig... different story |
EVERYBODY going to this particular dive knows the scoop. And the dipshit who booked us should be scared right down to his diaper that I might crack his skull with my 100% USA Ric.
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01-22-2011, 03:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Classickbass And here I thought people play music because they enjoy it. |
Some people feed their children by playing music.
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01-22-2011, 03:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Classickbass And here I thought people play music because they enjoy it. | And if what you play can be enjoyed by others as well, you can get paid for it. Cool concept, huh?
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01-22-2011, 04:04 AM
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Originally Posted by billoetjen Hi Folks,
Thinking of stenciling on a T-shirt: "**** Playing For Free" to wear for the next damn free show I have to play. Who Likee?
Edit:
How about:
Every time I play for free Jesus kills an unborn baby kitten. | Who did you say ,is forcing you to play for free?
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01-22-2011, 04:08 AM
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Originally Posted by billoetjen Not a pretty image, but we're getting s*m*wh*r*. | Some wh*res ? Might be better than money. Or not.
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