So, this is just a curiosity post...I'm not trying to figure out what to do, but the circumstance seemed like it might be interesting enough to toss around, maybe not.
I'm the regular sub with a band that gets decent to very good gigs. And straight at start I'll say, this is where I suspect I'll already lose some portion of people reading, but the routine is that they ask if I can sub and I say whether I can or not...I'm not generally told how much unless there's something notable and I don't feel the need to ask. I've been doing this close to 10 years with them. It's an even split deal and the overall situation is close, friendly and no-one is a FT player. I usually get between $200-400 as an even member split. I can generally tell either from past experience or the type of event roughly where that'll fall, so needing to know or them feeling the need to tell me faded away a long time ago. I've never been disappointed, and this band has been the one with my two highest paying gigs ever.
So, we have one tomorrow where when I was asked, I said I couldn't do it because I'm booked. They came back and said the only other person immediately available doesn't know a good portion of the songs and asked if there was any possibility that I could do part of the gig? Looking at the times, it was tight but I could play the two of three sets and make it to my other gig, so we decided on that.
With not so much time left (a bit over a week ago), fortunately I noticed online that the venue had a start time an hour later than we talked about. I contacted the BL right away and said that being the case, it really didn't seem to make sense to spend more time driving than I will playing...certainly they can come up with enough songs that the other guy knows to cover one set. He checked and the insistence was that that still wanted me to do it because it'll allow them to play some of the more important songs that he's just not going to get and I can still get on the road at the same time, which is the important thing.
I agreed to do it with a sigh, it's done, I'll go and play just the first set and go.
You're the BL in the situation...are you doing a six way split instead of five or trying to re-split one share between the two bass subs?
Yeah, yeah, I know some are saying "This wouldn't be an issue for me because I NEVER agree to play without knowing the pay" or "That's the first thing I would have thought of!" or "I'd tell them to give me a full five-way split or I'd never work with them again! Well, it didn't occur to me and I'm not going to get my panties in a bunch regardless...it's just not that type of situation.
I'm the regular sub with a band that gets decent to very good gigs. And straight at start I'll say, this is where I suspect I'll already lose some portion of people reading, but the routine is that they ask if I can sub and I say whether I can or not...I'm not generally told how much unless there's something notable and I don't feel the need to ask. I've been doing this close to 10 years with them. It's an even split deal and the overall situation is close, friendly and no-one is a FT player. I usually get between $200-400 as an even member split. I can generally tell either from past experience or the type of event roughly where that'll fall, so needing to know or them feeling the need to tell me faded away a long time ago. I've never been disappointed, and this band has been the one with my two highest paying gigs ever.
So, we have one tomorrow where when I was asked, I said I couldn't do it because I'm booked. They came back and said the only other person immediately available doesn't know a good portion of the songs and asked if there was any possibility that I could do part of the gig? Looking at the times, it was tight but I could play the two of three sets and make it to my other gig, so we decided on that.
With not so much time left (a bit over a week ago), fortunately I noticed online that the venue had a start time an hour later than we talked about. I contacted the BL right away and said that being the case, it really didn't seem to make sense to spend more time driving than I will playing...certainly they can come up with enough songs that the other guy knows to cover one set. He checked and the insistence was that that still wanted me to do it because it'll allow them to play some of the more important songs that he's just not going to get and I can still get on the road at the same time, which is the important thing.
I agreed to do it with a sigh, it's done, I'll go and play just the first set and go.
You're the BL in the situation...are you doing a six way split instead of five or trying to re-split one share between the two bass subs?
Yeah, yeah, I know some are saying "This wouldn't be an issue for me because I NEVER agree to play without knowing the pay" or "That's the first thing I would have thought of!" or "I'd tell them to give me a full five-way split or I'd never work with them again! Well, it didn't occur to me and I'm not going to get my panties in a bunch regardless...it's just not that type of situation.
