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I got desperate and posted a CL ad.

#81
The last band I was in was because of a contact I made responding to his CL ad. Band is history but we are still working together. He had horror stories of prior respondents.

I'm working with a singer/songwriter who's CL ad I responded to. We've been at it for over a year. Also had horror stories of prior respondents if they even showed up.

I'm involved with a 50s/60s group again based on my response to a CL ad. I've made friends for life on this one.

Bottom line for me I would not place an ad, I would respond to bass player needed and then be the bass player they need.
 
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#82
I was looking for a new female vocalist last year and tried CL. Insisted on a video- Was able to weed out a person that refused, and several that sent one that just had poor singing. Saved me a lot of tryouts. Ended up finding someone off-CL that has worked out great.

I started the band with CL people, but moved them out for other players in the first year. But I'd try CL again if needed. I don't have time to network and do open-mics.
 
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I have found good gigs from the dfw CL ads. I answered an add that led to three years that played 80 to 120 gigs a year, opened for many national and regional acts, played festivals, and got some minor airplay. I found my current working dance band through CL as well.. Don't know about advertising as a bassist looking. Good luck..
 
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I responded to a country band looking for a bassist.
Two gigs later we were opening for Randy Travis. Was never a professional gigging band, but we had 4 good years of playing out, had some pretty good shows and even made some money.
Quick advice, country audition. Now: The Country experience

I put out an ad as a bassist looking for a summer project.
Was contacted by a duo who liked that I played a little upright. Never made much money but it was a pretty fun 6 months and a good number of gigs of playing instrumental Klesmer'ish/Folk'ish music, mostly opening for rock bands. Even got a decent EP worth of tunes out of it.
Kyiv EP, by KYIV

So yeah, I've found Craigslist reasonably useful.
 
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of course, what drove me a little nuts about placing an ad is that there were far too many responses that couldn't even answer my 3 simple questions:

1. What is your band's name? (eg, so I could look them up on youtube, facebook, the web)
2. Where are you located/practice? (so I wasn't wasting my time with a band that practiced too far from where I live)
3. What are you looking for in a bass player? Eg, style, age range, what sort of availability (eg, gigs per month)?

3 simple questions. I would say 1 out 6 actually answered at least 2 of them. if you can't do that, I know you're a clown and not worth my time to even respond to.
 
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I'll 2nd Bandmix.

CL in Austin is horrible. There are one or two idiots who sabotage the legit posts by duplicating them. So, I signed up with Bandmix a few months ago and recently got a call from someone looking for a bass player. Just had our 4th rehearsal and things are going well. I only started playing bass in earnest about a year ago, so I'm completely stoked with this opportunity.
 
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