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- From: gw214790@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Galen Watts)
- Subject: Re: Turning pro - getting an audio-related job
- Message-ID: <Dec22.150204.27936@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Sender: Galen Watts, KF0YJ
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:02:04 GMT
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- In article <5752@gold.gvg.tek.com> chrisc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Chris Christensen) writes:
- >In article <85436@ut-emx.uucp> logan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw) writes:
- >(text edited)
- Stuff about careers and singers deleted.
- >> I'm not sure I can restrain myself from killing any performer who decides
- >>to put the microphone down on top of the main speakers when exiting the
- >>stage area.
- >This is where I stop being flipant and get serious.......If this is
- >your attidude then keep your day job and stay out of the audio
- >business.......Yes I get pissed when a performer mistreates my
- >equipment but I am forced to contain myself as best as I can. I knew
- >I was in trouble one evening when the singer takes the mic of the
- >stand and throws the stand off the stage........Yes I did go to the
- >bands manager and demand payment for damages. His response was "hell
- >we ain't getting paid. I ain't paying you for nothing..." Oh and I
- >got stiffed on the job also......
- Sounds like a good time to pull the main breaker.
-
- We don't even get out of bed without a contract that includes a 50% deposit
- for "risky" gigs. The system doesn't go out of mute without full payment
- in advance, and it must be cash/cashier's check, unless we're working with
- a previous client or really good friends.
- If we do a band that may be destructive or we may lose a crew, we also get
- a damage deposit that we keep if anybody throws something or we don't get a
- full loadout crew.
- The sound business can be fun, but it is a BUSINESS, and you have to stand
- firm on your rules or people will run all over you.
-
- I've cut off the Red Hot Chili Peppers when they got a little too beyond
- what their manager and I agreed to. We cut stage power, monitors and lights
- when they rammed a mic stand into a monitor, and they paid for the damage in
- cash before we turned anything on again.
- I turn those gigs down now. It's not worth the money. They still ask for us
- when they come around, and the promoter books us for all the rest of his gigs.
- >
- >Keep and or get a day job. Do what you can by helping out bands. I
- >can't offer much more than that. I got into the business from the
-
- Sound is my day job, but it is not my religion.
-
- Stay Safe
- Galen Watts, KF0YJ
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