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04-06-2008, 06:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: LOS ANGELES, CA | | | Working Pros: Would You Play Bass FOR FREE????
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I have decided to make as much money as humanly possible as a professional musician by providing exceptional services (and antics) for FREE. To kids. To anyone that CARES.
I will only consider large iced coffees as payment for my services.
What would you do for free?
Read the sentiments on this blog and feel free to contribute to my vision with your own thoughts.
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04-06-2008, 07:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | | No. I don't work for free.
EDIT: I'll elaborate. If it's for Church or charity or benefit, etc... I will play for free. It has to be a good cause. Since I play professionally, it's my livelihood. I love music but it's also my job, so I don't like doing it for free.
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04-06-2008, 08:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: LOS ANGELES, CA | | Let's get a list of reasons of why all of you WOULD "work" for free and why you WON'T "work" for free.  |
04-06-2008, 08:25 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | I'd work for free if I was a porn star. Relax style is too much of a service to the good of humanity. |
04-06-2008, 08:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NE Dallas,Tx,Usa,Earth, M.Way | | | yeah
its promo sort of besides i enjoy music
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04-06-2008, 08:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Modesto, CA | | | It depends, I have and will work for free for,
1. Friends and family
2. Causes I believe in
3. Charity events
4. A church (if it is my church)
5. If it will pay off in other ways (exposure, trade, etc)
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04-06-2008, 09:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hancock, MD | | | You couldn't pay me to work for free!
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04-06-2008, 09:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: S.E. Connecticut, USA | | | I sometimes play for free. It's called rehearsal. And I sometimes get paid for that. |
04-06-2008, 10:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | | I play in my own Church for free and consider it a contribution in service to my church. I also get the opportunity to play some great material with some of the best musicians in the city. So it's worth it as an education.
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04-06-2008, 10:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Tampa Bay, FL | | | I also do church gigs for free, and I've played a couple of charity events in my years that were free monetarily, although there were still a lot of perks. As a bassist, I sometimes play for free, but as a bandleader, I never play for free.
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04-06-2008, 10:56 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio | | Every gig I do is for free, at least the playing part. However, I get paid to set up and tear down.  |
04-06-2008, 10:59 PM
| | Not Actually Knighted... Yet! | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio | | | I would not do it for free if it were my full time job! but as I do it for fun, I play all the time for free. It is a rare occasion that I am paid, but I like it when i am!
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04-06-2008, 11:01 PM
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Endorsing Artist: GHS Strings | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: 818 ~ 805 ~ L.A. | | | AMEN! I get paid for the 22.5 hours off stage when on tour; the drive to and from the gigs and for set-up, tear down and maintaining my basses.
I'll do church services in HIS church when I get the call to serve whether my home church or another. .... |
04-07-2008, 03:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | It depends on who, or what, I'm playing for. If I'm playing at a venue that is going to be making money off of me, or my band, I'd want a cut.
If playing for free will help me get paying work in the future, I sure will.
If its for a friends party, we'll work for beer, like we always do.
If its for charity, sure, why not?
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04-07-2008, 03:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Clarkston, MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by HollowBassman You couldn't pay me to work for free! | 
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04-07-2008, 03:39 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Honolulu, HI | | | the scene in hawaii is really horrible so my band takes whatever gig we can get. out of the 20 shows we've played in the past 8 months, 4 were benefit shows, and only one was a paid gig (which we used the money to put together a demo). the way we look at it, the other 15 were just ways to get exposure. pretty much the only way to get paid as a musician in hawaii is to be part of a cover, reggae, or hawaiian band. |
04-07-2008, 09:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: LOS ANGELES, CA | | | Would you go into a studio and record bass tracks for FREE?
What's the incentive of doing a music-related service for FREE?
What is your "free-threshold" and where do you draw that line? |
04-07-2008, 10:03 AM
| | no longer red carded, but my butt is still sore. | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: San Rafael, CA | | | it seems most peeps that are otherwise money hungry heathens - have a change of heart and play for free, to kids, for church.
probably because built into the foundation of the ideology itself is an expectation of charity work - for free - to kids - for the church. which of course the church can skim off the top.
so you can either label the work you do for free - to kids as charity or better yet "giving" and write it off the way the good christians et el do.
OR - and this is MY personal preference. Start your own church and have others do work for free- to kids - for YOU.
Fistianity = giving. |
04-07-2008, 10:13 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jady 4. A church (if it is my church) | well there's some christian spirit for you.  |
04-07-2008, 10:17 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: chicago, IL. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay Terrien I have decided to make as much money as humanly possible as a professional musician by providing exceptional services (and antics) for FREE. To kids. To anyone that CARES.
I will only consider large iced coffees as payment for my services.
What would you do for free?
Read the sentiments on this blog and feel free to contribute to my vision with your own thoughts.
Awesome. F.F.T.K. | IF you can live off nothing but iced coffee and pay your bills with it thats great. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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