Gave us an extra hundred. Is it a tip? A mistake? Now what? I'll be back to tell you what our singer did after a bit...
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So the bar "overpaid" us...
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It's likely a tip. Happens to us sometimes.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
OK, no...this guy TAKES IT BACK to the bar, two days later without asking one damned one of us our feelings on it. They "split" it with him, then he tips them ... again, we are two days late, he forgot to tip them the night of the gig. And the gig was not that great anyway. Cool venue, but far from the other three guys.
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Maybe the owner will realize and short you $100 next gig. Make sure you speak up and when he asks why you didn't speak up when it was $100 over, just cooly reply that you can overlook a mistake once, but not twice. 
Not likely a tip if they didn't mention it. In my band whoever books the gig handles the payout. If I was handling the payout I would alert the payer. I think all the other guys in my band would do the same.
For the record, I fully believe it was a tip. He said someone gave it to him separately. And as anyone would figure, the person you dealt with Saturday night is likely not the same as the one you find on a Tuesday evening. He split our tip with the bar.
I would 100% call speak with the bar manager/booker and let them know this happened. Even if you end up giving back the $100, you'll have a gig-ally for life
In other words, the talented, nice and honest guy is a "tool" because he didn't want to take money that might have been paid accidentally, and you're pissed because you and your bandmates would have liked the opportunity to split the cash whether it was meant for you or not.
I feel like it was pretty obviously a tip. My "pissed"ness stems from him taking it back to the bar like an 8 year old cub scout and splitting our tip with them.
I feel like if he had asked any one of us, we could have explained the concept to him.
So, you're out $50. Don't know how many are in your band, so I say 5 to make the math easy. Each of you might be out $10. Why are you letting this bother you so much?
Almost certainly a tip. Bars are a tight business, they generally don't make mistakes like that. If they have an especially good night, they do occasionally tip. Usually they say so but not always.
$20 per dude doesn’t seem worth the negative karma hit. I’d have asked if it was intentional, it if it was me
It's just dumb. I couldn't believe he did it. And it just happened today, so it's fresh. I'm not bothered as much as I am dumbfounded.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Singer was wrong to do it without speaking with you, but it was smart to talk with them if you want to keep a relationship with them.
Better let sleeping dogs lie. You have no idea where the ''tip'' came from so no idea if it was appropriately returned and whoever you talked to in the bar management might very much disapprove of either or both transactions.
Talented singers are hard to come by, and are MUCH more important to a band's success then us. Not sure he's the tool here...
We got paid twice as much as usual last weekend (place we play often). The owner said how happy he was we were back and that the place was packed all night. I didn't ask about it when we got paid. I just smiled, said thanks and left.
