Ever lose your $$ after a gig?

[pstyle]

I just came home from a gig... made about $180.. not bad. But I got pulled over 2 miles from my house and got a speeding ticket First one in six years! So basically I paid for free tonight and got some points on my license.

At least some chick named Aisha wrote her name and number on a napkin and sent her friend to give it to me. Hopefully she's hot.

[T-Bird]

Hi.

No, that hasn't happened to me.

Neither one .

But once, when splitting the gig money about 2 am at the start of the drive home, our guitarist looked at the cash, looked at his watch, looked at the cash again, and in a desperate voice said: "there's no way I'm gonna be able to drink all this tonight". He did made it to the bar, but was only able to buy one beer IIRC.

Regards
Sam

[Reaper Man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDPIK7Fz_g4

these guys thought she was hot

[Evil Undead]

Originally Posted by pstyle

I just came home from a gig... made about $180.. not bad. But I got pulled over 2 miles from my house and got a speeding ticket First one in six years! So basically I paid for free tonight and got some points on my license.

At least some chick named Aisha wrote her name and number on a napkin and sent her friend to give it to me. Hopefully she's hot.

Self inflicted

[SamanthaCay]

No, but a couple years ago I was leaving the bank after cashing out my tax return and was promptly pulled over about a block away and handed a ticket for $2’s less then the total amount of my tax return.

[Winnb]

Got some more bad news for you. I know Aisha...

"She" ain't no chick.

[SamanthaCay]

Originally Posted by Winnb

Got some more bad news for you. I know Aisha...

"She" ain't no chick.

Just out of curiosity what makes you so sure that’s the “bad news”

[fenderhutz]

I just started playing with a cover band officially on their Halloween gig about 2 months ago. I knew the cops would be out and in force so I only had one beer instead of my usual 2 (for a 4 hour show) to be overly cautious. I never drive drunk anyway. So all packed up and left the bar feeling good about the show and getting back into a decent gig and a see a car speed up behind me and start to pass, then slow down and inch in behind me. In my mind for that split second I thought "Leave me alone, I am not drunk....cop".

The lights come on and I get pulled over. The cop asks for my insurance and registration, and asks if I had been drinking and I am not one to lie. I said yessir I had one about 3 hours before. He said "Great because that isn't why I pulled you over."

I always buy two year registrations on my vehicle and because I bought the car new I didn't think about the renewal that had already passed. Between the ticket, the local taxes I had to pay to get the registration, and the registration that night cost me 510.00 dollars total.

[MikeBass]

Originally Posted by pstyle

I just came home from a gig... made about $180.. not bad. But I got pulled over 2 miles from my house and got a speeding ticket First one in six years! So basically I paid for free tonight and got some points on my license.

At least some chick named Aisha wrote her name and number on a napkin and sent her friend to give it to me. Hopefully she's hot.

Same thing happened to me three weeks ago.........

Originally Posted by Winnb

Got some more bad news for you. I know Aisha...

"She" ain't no chick.

Originally Posted by buchananbass

Just out of curiosity what makes you so sure that’s the “bad news”

Not that there's anything wrong with that right??!?!?!

[DiabolicLow B]

A few years ago I finished a gig in the Beaches area of Toronto and had two $40 parking tickets on my car, one was dated 11:58pm and the other was 12:02am.

On top of the $50 I owed my guitarist and my bar/food tab the gig cost me about $20!

[Winnb]

Originally Posted by buchananbass

Just out of curiosity what makes you so sure that’s the “bad news”

lol! Fair enough!

[Jim11895]

If I take into account the wife and kids (both grown and of drinking age) food and drink tab, I usually come out on the short end after every gig. Oh well, it's still alot of fun and there's still the day job everyone tells me not to quit....

[The Bassmonkey]

Ah man, about 10 years when i was 18 my parents gave me a lift with my equipment to our first 'big' gig (you know the venue in your town that all bands eventually play that you think you have made it when you do ha ha) well we parked up outside a shop front (had a drive) looked everywhere for a no parking sign or something and found nothing.

Anyway played an awesome show, got paid £100 went outside and car had been clamped. Cost £150 to have it unclamped! When the clamping guy got there, i asked where the sign was. It was a foot level on a wall completely obscured by a massive bin.

Of course you cant argue with these parasites so that was that... how annoying, all our money went on my parent being unclamped. Still luckily they didnt make us pay the extra £50!

[Oren Hudson]

Something near. A few years back, we were hired to do a summer outdoor birthday party. Two sisters were throwing the party for another sister. Great location, food and weather. Good crowd, band playing good, all sisters very hot - so what's the catch? During one of numbers, the sister that was paying us walks up to me and starts handing me a wad of cash! I'm trying to keep playing and take the cash at the same time. Awkward. Right as I tried to quickly stop playing and reach for the money, a puff of wind came along. Of course, cash went flying in many directions. At that point, I figured the song could do without the bass and vocals while I went diving for the money. I was finding bills all over the area including some shrubbery and planters. I did manage to "find" all of the gig money. Someone was taping the gig and you can clearly see this exchange.

[roblap]

Bummer dude. Who are you gigging with these days?
Rob

[bassplayer8953]

The important thing to realize (returning home after a gig) is that the only people out @ 2:00 am on a Saturday or Sunday morning are: drunks....cops...and you. Then drive like you know it. Watch out for everybody, because there are very few "normal" people out driving at that hour. Cops know it, & judge what they see, accordingly. Clean....squeaky clean...the only way to handle driving during late-night hours...unless you like flashing red lights...

We're never made big $$$ playing, so any issue (like those described above) would require that $$$ come directly from my own pocket. And I have worked in negative numbers, when family (wife, grown kids) show up at my gigs. But having them there makes it worth it, anyway.

[bolophonic]

Even with the money I have made in gigs, I am sure that I am still $10,000 in the hole overall as a musician.

[bassbully]

Well i have drank and ate more than I made in a night so ..yeah.

[pstyle]

Originally Posted by bassplayer8953

The important thing to realize (returning home after a gig) is that the only people out @ 2:00 am on a Saturday or Sunday morning are: drunks....cops...and you. Then drive like you know it.

You are right and normally I am very cautious. I just didn't pay attention for a sec and got busted. And I wasn't even going that fast.. got a ticket for 49 in a 35. Well 'm definitely showing up for the court date... hopefully the cop won't show.

So should I call this Aisha chick (I hope it's a chick).
I'm thinking it's better if I don't call and leave it a mystery. If I do call, there's a 99.9% chance that she's either fictitious, not very attractive, missing a limb, or maybe a dude (not that there's anything wrong with that).

[bassplayer8953]

Originally Posted by pstyle

You are right and normally I am very cautious. I just didn't pay attention for a sec and got busted. And I wasn't even going that fast.. got a ticket for 49 in a 35. Well 'm definitely showing up for the court date... hopefully the cop won't show.

So should I call this Aisha chick (I hope it's a chick).
I'm thinking it's better if I don't call and leave it a mystery. If I do call, there's a 99.9% chance that she's either fictitious, not very attractive, missing a limb, or maybe a dude (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I wasn't really meaning to preach to you, sorry if you got that impression. I'm sure you know the score, if not, you certainly found out!! Just a general rule of thumb for all musicians that gig out...especially the bar scene. I hope you can get out of the fine...if not, at least supervision...