What would you do in this situation...?

[andres3195]

I came to the conclussion that i'll ask for a chunk of money (as someone said before haha) to do it. If they don't accept that i'll pass and keep focused in stuff i'm interested in. I have nothing to loose.

 

[Spidey2112]

"10 bucks is 10 bucks." ~ Geddy Lee

FWIW...I've been a graphic designer for 25 years. These days, I mainly design brochures for a toilet company.

"10 bucks is 10 bucks." ~ Geddy Lee

... I knew there was at least one reason why I liked the guy...

 

[mfb]

and that's a bad thing?

No, it's a good thing, which was my point.

 

[mellowinman]

I would do it under a fake name, and wear a disguise. And I would use a different fake name and disguise to troll them online, and maybe heckle them at shows. And I would use a fourth fake name and disguise to get extra cash cleaning their pools when they hit the big time, because you know that's where this is heading...

 

[andres3195]

I would do it under a fake name, and wear a disguise. And I would use a different fake name and disguise to troll them online, and maybe heckle them at shows. And I would use a fourth fake name and disguise to get extra cash cleaning their pools when they hit the big time, because you know that's where this is heading...

You guys make my day

 

[Lobster11]

I would do it under a fake name, and wear a disguise. And I would use a different fake name and disguise to troll them online, and maybe heckle them at shows. And I would use a fourth fake name and disguise to get extra cash cleaning their pools when they hit the big time, because you know that's where this is heading...

Don't forget a fifth fake name and disguise to open a new account on TB to tell us about it afterwards!

 

[Rip Van Dan]

Joining the union only matters if you actually do a lot of work through the union; the vast majority of work isn't through the union.

Agreed, which is why I said if he finds himself doing it a lot. Another good reason is if he does some work for a major label, which only uses Union members on its sessions. Just a matter of what's happening where you are. This is not the typical, "I'm recording this in my home studio" type of project. A LOT of folks don't realize how the union recording sessions operate.

I was a member of two different chapters of the Musician's Union at two different times. One was when I was playing in f group where we were touring for 3 years playing clubs back in the early 70's. You were a member of the union because you had to be to get the good gigs. Never hung around a union hall and I think I was went to just one union meeting - just happened to be in town at the time.

The other was when I was living in LA. One of the ways you could get your foot in the door with recording sessions was to hang out at the union hall in your spare time with your gear accessible. If a label had a last minute call for something or if someone didn't show, they'd come to the union hall and grab someone. Of course it's pretty hard to stay alive if you're hanging around the union hall all the time, but that's LA and probably New York and Chicago too. Playing sessions could be lucrative though because you could easily make enough $$ playing 3 or 4 sessions a week to keep you alive and then get a big lump sum at the end of the year (6 figures). So you'd have folks hanging around the Union Hall for months at a time hoping that get that one break.

 

[Badwater]

The studio gig is a good gig no matter who or what you'll be playing to. If you haven't done studio work, you can learn a lot that will make you a better player.