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Lead guitar does not like my tee shirt design.

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lfmn16 said:
Strong has nothing to do with it. It's about being smart and picking your fights. Life isn't a reality show where the loudest richardcranium wins. If he doesn't have the support of the rest of the band, it doesn't matter how much he gets in the guitarist's face. You can't MAKE someone respect you.
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I definitely agree with you here, but I also think people need to learn where the lines are.
 
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It turns out the shop is willing to work with us, and if, as previously mentioned, they are doing screen printing, the following options would work without me having to go and edit. What looks best?
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#126
njones89 said:
I also have no experience printing shirts, know less about selling them.
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From my experience, buy the smallest lot you can in a variety of sizes. It might take a while to unload them.

I dropped $1k on 100 shirts, and I still have about 80 shirts after a solid year of great bookings full of dancing singing party people. They love my band, but not enough to drop $10 for a tee shirt.

Also, be sure to advertise your shirts for sale on your web site and Facebook page.
 
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njones89 said:
I need a place to vent this so I can carry on with work... but I am curious how another bassist might handle this...

I took up the role of arteest with my band, and I designed a logo. The band recently agreed to invest in some tee shirts because we have a decent gig coming up - opening for a big act. So I de-facto ended up with the responsibility of designing the tee. I put in several hours of work on this thing. Multiple times while designing both the logo and the tee design, I asked everybody's input. All I got was a "yeah, cool" or a "that looks really awesome". Of course, I didn't get any input from the lead guitar.

Today our drummer started getting quotes. The shop showed us a mockup of black ink on white shirts (the way I originally designed it) and black ink (with white outlines) on a black shirt. It is obvious to me from a design standpoint which design to go with. But since black iz da best coller fer metal, the lead guitar said the black on white design "blows" and he hopes it will sell. I got pretty mad, because he waited until the very last minute to give this input, and at last practice, he said it "yeah, it is good." It's not like I can go back and edit the design without putting in a few more hours of work. So I sent a pretty nasty reply, also mentioning that I am having a bad day and I don't need this right now. He said "lol poor you". So I left the group conversation.

I feel like that guy doesn't respect me, he seemingly ignores me a lot (this seems to be proof of that), and he is already difficult to work with because he is opinionated and outspoken on many topics. I sent a couple messages to the singer/bandleader, and he called me, but I don't feel like talking, and I have work to finish anyway. I am considering quitting because I feel like my contributions are not really valued or appreciated. It may just be that I am having a bad day, or this might be the last straw for me. What do you take of this situation?

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That design would look cool on a white shirt. I have white death metal shirts. People do wear them. I played in a death/grind band for many years with a drummer very similar to your description. Can't count how many times I got "I don't know what to do, but don't TELL me what to do". I don't believe the issue is a disregard for you rather than he is insecure. It took years of compromise and tolerance and things only got worse until I finally had to quit. Grand waste of time. If you can't fire this guy you will have to leave.
 

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