would/do you play for food?

[jonathan_matos5]

as in a meal is the only payment you receive for your services as a bassist

[Febs]

No.

[jonathan_matos5]

i also propose a will rock for food club !

[Phalex]

I did this at a pig roast once with disastrous effects!!

(See the farting during a gig thread)

[Fat.Mike]

Usually food is an added bonus on top of pay, much like free beer. However, I believe that there are certain circumstances in which free food would be payment enough. (Championship winning Barbecue, for instance.)

[SundanceChile]

Food! I like food!

I'd rather play for free. Honestly. Call me crazy, but I'm one of the few individuals who believe music should be a FREE art. Kinda like looking at a statue in the park. Should we have to pay to look at it? Nope. Should we pay to listen to something that we could re-create ourselves? Nope. If there's money to made off a gig, it's in merch. Plain and simple, IMO.

(prepares for bombardment.)

[terrelli721]

Sure Why not! I love playing regardless, and since I do have a day job, that makes it alll the more fun.

[SteveC]

I voted no. I would not play ONLY for food. Fortunately, one of our best gigs is at a great restaurant where after we play, get paid (very well I might add) and load out, the chef has some "leftovers" for us. These have included:

Caraway Roasted Duck
Duck Burrito
Various pastas and sauces
Garlic mashed potatoes
Prime Rib (last time with a great cranberry, orange and vanilla chutney)
BBQ Prime Rib sandwich
Roasted chicken
Salmon
Rice Pilaf
Lavash

I could go on but now I'm really hungry.

[jmain]

Originally Posted by Fat.Mike

Usually food is an added bonus on top of pay, much like free beer. However, I believe that there are certain circumstances in which free food would be payment enough. (Championship winning Barbecue, for instance.)

Food was usually an add on like the free beer. Some mgrs would try to give the food/beer as total payment, but wasn't worth foregoing what the food costs. We played some nice dinner joints too.

On tour, we used to cook all our meals on a little two-burner Coleman stove and crash on floors; so we'd rather get the cash for gas and rent.

[-Acid-]

if i was homeless,hungry,and had nothing left but my bass YES

[andrewd]

As a poor student, you bet! Pretty much every cent I get goes to food anyway.

I actually did play for food around a week ago, and it was well worth it.

[SuperDuck]

If I were a professional musician whose income was based solely on the shows that I play, then probably no.

But since I am not, yes.

[meev991]

Originally Posted by Phalex

I did this at a pig roast once with disastrous effects!!

(See the farting during a gig thread)

I'm not even sure what to make of this

[Jazzin']

I have played some gigs where I got payed in food. It's not very satisfying. I don't mind playing for free, but all the trasportation and setting up takes a lot out of me and I consider that to be work.

[agreatheight]

Played an outdoor festival / party thing on Cape Cod that had all you can eat seafood boil (lobster &/or crab, plus taters & corn), and all you can drink beers (good stuff, too, I think I drank Bass or Sam Adams, iirc). It was, excuse the pun, wicked fun and I think I ate and drank well over $100. Easy. Not sure how much the tickets were, but I'd do it again!

[seanm]

I play at a couple of private parties every year that are "free" but I get as much as I can eat. They are fun, so I enjoy playing there.

[Bass Mule]

Just played a fund-raising benefit last Saturday for the school our lead singer works at. She asked us to do it as a favor. The fund-raiser was at a really nice, swanky, nouveau tapas restaurant called Solera (for you Minneapolitans). As soon as I heard we were going to eat for free there, I was in.

[Depth_Charge]

The band I am in has done a few charity gigs and I'm hoping I get to with them. So if someone is offering a good feed so my family can join in, then I'd do it. I host BBQ jams at home anyways, they cost me money too.

Originally Posted by SundanceChile

Food! I like food!

I'd rather play for free. Honestly. Call me crazy, but I'm one of the few individuals who believe music should be a FREE art. Kinda like looking at a statue in the park. Should we have to pay to look at it? Nope. Should we pay to listen to something that we could re-create ourselves? Nope. If there's money to made off a gig, it's in merch. Plain and simple, IMO.

(prepares for bombardment.)

+1. I'm a bright eyed bunny on that one too

But not everyone buys merch. So in time, most musicians would just be those rich kids who, we can all agree, "are the total package!" Bwuahahahaha.

(Yeah we got that show here, they ran that as an ad for weeks )

Either that, or music will breakdown to local pockets around the world and we will have to see some major global copyright and internet reforms, woohoo

Aaaah, the enjoyment of ideas. Thanks!

[Dave Muscato]

Originally Posted by SundanceChile

Food! I like food!

I'd rather play for free. Honestly. Call me crazy, but I'm one of the few individuals who believe music should be a FREE art. Kinda like looking at a statue in the park. Should we have to pay to look at it? Nope. Should we pay to listen to something that we could re-create ourselves? Nope. If there's money to made off a gig, it's in merch. Plain and simple, IMO.

(prepares for bombardment.)

So *YOU'RE* the reason that club owners keep telling me, "Why should I pay you again? There's this one bassist who thinks music should be free!"



Dave

[Smallmouth_Bass]

Playing for free and getting fed is one thing, but to have an arrangement where the food is the payment? I don't think so.

I'm not a fan of substituting beer as part of payment either since I don't drink, especially if I am playing.