Post by studio42 on Sept 7, 2004 11:23:25 GMT -5
Well, my requests for simple contracts is finally being heard.
Oh: and my rate tripling, that's still in effect. BUT: no change in rates to my friends at the UWA. I like nice and respectful clients.
Sunday was a different sort of disaster. No riot, so man, that sucked.
We head down to the event in Stockton. We arrive to where we were told the event was going to be. Surprise: it's not there. WTF?!?! Try to reach our booking agent, he's unreachable via his main line(tossed and broke the phone yesterday in a fit of anger over a pen, don't ask, it's retarded), won't answer his cell phone. Side note: My family has LOADS of cell phones, yet they rarely answer them, especially when I need help, yet I have to answer mine and if I don't I catch hell for weeks afterwards. Anyhow, we're at wrong place with the Yellow Pages calling other places to find our event. Booking agent is reached, he can't remember, so he gives us the number of the couple, who is unreachable. This makes sense, they are busy getting ready. Couple calls us while we are still event-site hunting. We get the name of the place, call the place, get directions to the place and then arrive at the place an hour later than we wanted to be there, yet still tons early. The even is microscopic, so we scale down the PA massively and effectively nuke monitors to a set of front-fill wedges. No subs, no lights(no room). NO RECORDING. I intended to record both nights, but could not record either. Oh well.
This even, other than getting there and compromising, went very well. We even got paid. Let's cover other neat things that happened:
The couple had their legal wedding at that location. Cool. Used my lav mic for that, went super smooth too. I was worried about feedback: not to worry.
Brother of the groom and a friend of the brother played 2 guitar pieces, one being an original song. Went very well. Playing wasn't all that great, but passable.
Bottom line: Something special happened at this event, and that was really cool.
In regards to Saturday's fiasco, we're talking with those that hired us and we should be getting paid. Regardless, I've paid the band out of my own pocket and will be paying crew today, again out of my own pocket.
Monday morning, I unloaded most of the trailer by myself, which was fine. Family helped when I got to the speakers, subs and bins. I'm still repairing the damaged items, which was all minor and fixable stuff at no costs. I also have to still put quite a few things away.
Oh: and my rate tripling, that's still in effect. BUT: no change in rates to my friends at the UWA. I like nice and respectful clients.
Sunday was a different sort of disaster. No riot, so man, that sucked.
We head down to the event in Stockton. We arrive to where we were told the event was going to be. Surprise: it's not there. WTF?!?! Try to reach our booking agent, he's unreachable via his main line(tossed and broke the phone yesterday in a fit of anger over a pen, don't ask, it's retarded), won't answer his cell phone. Side note: My family has LOADS of cell phones, yet they rarely answer them, especially when I need help, yet I have to answer mine and if I don't I catch hell for weeks afterwards. Anyhow, we're at wrong place with the Yellow Pages calling other places to find our event. Booking agent is reached, he can't remember, so he gives us the number of the couple, who is unreachable. This makes sense, they are busy getting ready. Couple calls us while we are still event-site hunting. We get the name of the place, call the place, get directions to the place and then arrive at the place an hour later than we wanted to be there, yet still tons early. The even is microscopic, so we scale down the PA massively and effectively nuke monitors to a set of front-fill wedges. No subs, no lights(no room). NO RECORDING. I intended to record both nights, but could not record either. Oh well.
This even, other than getting there and compromising, went very well. We even got paid. Let's cover other neat things that happened:
The couple had their legal wedding at that location. Cool. Used my lav mic for that, went super smooth too. I was worried about feedback: not to worry.
Brother of the groom and a friend of the brother played 2 guitar pieces, one being an original song. Went very well. Playing wasn't all that great, but passable.
Bottom line: Something special happened at this event, and that was really cool.
In regards to Saturday's fiasco, we're talking with those that hired us and we should be getting paid. Regardless, I've paid the band out of my own pocket and will be paying crew today, again out of my own pocket.
Monday morning, I unloaded most of the trailer by myself, which was fine. Family helped when I got to the speakers, subs and bins. I'm still repairing the damaged items, which was all minor and fixable stuff at no costs. I also have to still put quite a few things away.