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A Letter from Bridezilla's parents

#73
Trevorus' "Snobbi Desert" made me laugh.

And even though that's a joke letter, it's all too real. One of my friends (an aspiring playwright in NYC) was called to play a wedding gig this past summer and his ordeal in many ways was worse than that list of demands.

He learned the hard way never to do private gigs (like weddings, birthday parties, bar/bat mitzvahs) without a written contract. Because everyone will try to jerk the musicians around and weasel their way out of paying them.
 
#74
hahah this reminds me of a gig my group had last year, we got this real snobby letter from the mother of the bride about what she wants blah blah and we thought "this is going to be terrible!" but we could all have used the money. so we get there and set up and just start jamming in a real smooth funk. the father of the bride comes over and is just blown away! he starts talking to us "man you guys are going to be great! whatever you guys want just talk to me and Ill get it!" during our break he bought us a round of beers and told us to help ourselves to the food!
 
#76
Actually that's $17.50 an hour which isn't bad. Better than you could make bagging at a grocery store anyways.(Which here is 5.15 an hour, minimum wage.)

Unless of course you hate the music and it's a four hour drive there, then I'd demand 50 dollars an hour per person at least.




By the way, we had a band thing come to our school, and try as they might cases were everywhere to be seen if you were looking for them. They're the city's most professional band thing.(Bassist was terrible! GOOD GOD! He couldn't hit ANY notes right or on time at all.) And they're very uptight white people that are very clean. I think the case/cable thing was WAY over the top.
 
#77
Daytona955i said:
I love the part about not having any cases or cables visible, I've actually heard that one before. Haha.
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This is actually a very common request, and not too "snobby" or out of line either. If you are playing a professional "upscale" gig, you are usually being paid not only for the music you are playing, but the prestige you bring to the event. That's why you dress in a tux, or special outfit, for the event, because appearence is important.

It's a good lesson to learn early on really, no matter what music you are playing, keeping your cables tidy and cases out of sight is a good idea. :)
 
#78
I can see some of the requests as being a given. Professionals wouldn't "noodle" between songs, although they might re-tune their instruments. And they wouldn't have their cases and junk on the stage, but they might be visable. I can also see the song requests being fine, every bride(zilla) or bride(zilla)'s mother requests songs for each part of the wedding. But musicians aren't puppets, so if you want something to sound a certain way, get the original and a CD player.

I do wedding videos, so that letter doesn't actually seem too fake. I've been requested to try to take 10 lbs off the bride on the video. And one girl gave me Lincoln Park's "The End" to use as music for her elegant Quincineara.

I recently had a bride who wanted to use Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" for her segment. I had to show her the lyrics and explain that the song was about a guy talking to his ex girlfriend whom he still has feelings for. But maybe I should have kept my mouth shut and let her feel stupid :spit:
 

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