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Leaving gear at a house for jamming

#23
I loaned out my guitar amp to a guitarist we were in the process of auditioning. I play bass, so I didn't have an urgent need for the amp, and this new guitarist was having a hard time carting a halfstack back and forth between rehearsals. I decided to be nice and help out by loaning him my amp to use at home. He took it home and sold it, and never would come clean about where the amp went. I chased him down for years. Everytime I caught up with him he had an excuse for where my amp was. I never did get my amp back.
 
#25
Metalbasspro said:
Anyone ever have anyone pull a fast one with your gear? Like sell it in between the this jam and the next? Pull out of the new project and refuse to allow you to pick up your gear? Never been a problem for me but I was wondering what recourse if any is to be had should I ever deal with this.
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Nope, I’ve never had any problem with leaving my gear. But my personal rule is - if I even need to ask if my gear will be safe I don’t leave anything. ;)
 
#27
I guess there is always gear insurance.
Our band shares a rehearsal room with roommates. We've had roommates for 10+ yrs and nothing's gone missing. I hope our luck holds out. Other rooms in this bldg have been broken into and items stolen but we've been lucky so far.
 
#28
This has happened to me before! I got “paid” in bass when I was a guitar store with a band that just hired me for several studio hours and eventually asked me to join. We played 4 shows in a span of 4 months and practiced 40+ hours a week, for nothing in particular. I quit the band to take a job with some closer friends touring, recording, and making nothing (living for free). When I got over to the jam spot to get my gear. I was allowed to pick between the Warwick 5 string ‘vette and my swr 810/gbe750 rig, which was already mine. I picked the rig based on the value that I bought it for vs the used bass. Thinking back on it, I should’ve kept the bass and downsized the rig. . . Thinking back on it I should have ended it a LOT differently than walking out empty handed.

What I learned; only play music with my close friends unless it’s on contract, luckily my friends are all musicians!

CF
 
#29
charliefreak said:
This has happened to me before! I got “paid” in bass when I was a guitar store with a band that just hired me for several studio hours and eventually asked me to join. We played 4 shows in a span of 4 months and practiced 40+ hours a week, for nothing in particular. I quit the band to take a job with some closer friends touring, recording, and making nothing (living for free). When I got over to the jam spot to get my gear. I was allowed to pick between the Warwick 5 string ‘vette and my swr 810/gbe750 rig, which was already mine. I picked the rig based on the value that I bought it for vs the used bass. Thinking back on it, I should’ve kept the bass and downsized the rig. . . Thinking back on it I should have ended it a LOT differently than walking out empty handed.

What I learned; only play music with my close friends unless it’s on contract, luckily my friends are all musicians!

CF
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I'm having a hard time making sense of this post. The first band wanted to pay you, for 4 months of your time, at 40+ hours a week, by.giving you an amp rig that was already yours?
 
#34
I keep a full rig at my dad's and another one at my brother's place. I have a couple full rigs at home plus quite a few basses.

My current rig is an avatar 112 with a BX500 in a road case. I can make two trips by myself to my truck and have everything in or out so I don't bother leaving anything. If I need more volume I've got another avatar 112 but so far one has been enough.
 
#35
My drummer back in 1984 sold my 1978 Jazz bass, early 1970s SVT head and cab.

I have left gear at a house a few years ago only to find that other people were using it. I don't leave gear anywhere.
 
#36
I never leave gear anywhere.

With that said, if you have to leave a cab at the rehearsal space, I suggest installing a Speakon, and using an idiosyncratic pair of conductors, such as 1+ and 2+, and re-wire a cable accordingly. Folks will have a hard time guessing why your cab won't work for them.
 
#38
+1 to the beater rig. got myself an old pair of peavey pa colums and refinished them in line-x, steel grills, and loaded them up with $10 speakers. Two jam spots, two cabs. they're practically bullet-proof and even if somebody f*%@s with them, who cares? they sound decent, can take anything i've ever tried to put into them, and cost me very little.
 
#39
If you're worried about it at all, trust that voice and don't leave it. I got burned more than once in my ill spent youth. Sublet some rooms in the jam house, and one of the guys let his crack-head brother steal a 215 and a PA rack. I was sleeping at my gf's house and got too lazy to go over every day.

Then another time I jammed with some older guys a few times, and then the drummer asked to borrow a 215 cabinet from me. He never returned it. He said the bassist had it, then he was like we don't play together, he left town, etc. I got $75 from him, truth be told someone had given me that cabinet so I didn't have much invested in it, but it was a real nice Ampeg 215, which is probably worth a lot now.

Thank goodness everyone I play with now is respectable, most are long-time friends, I would never worry about leaving anything with any of them. But the situations were much more fluid in my youth, I wish I had held on to some of that gear.
 

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