Re: [Harp-L] Paying the Piper

["steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Almost all the places we play are restaurants that serve food and drink. We negotiate a food and drink credit along with our pay and they are usually happy to do it. If I drink 3 Jack Daniels at, say, $5 each, that doesn't cost them $15. More like a couple bucks. So it works out well. Oh, sometimes I eat, too..   :0

Steve Webb in Minnesota, where I'm playing my first harp gig in 4 months Friday night.


---- David Payne <dmatthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> We got a steak dinner when we were playing at the Texas Roadhouse every week. That was a lot of fun. In West Virginia, food is customary compensation for musicians if no money is available. The deal is, the jams are typically fundraisers for something, so whatever fund, whatever guy has cancer, whatever family's house burned down, whatever, they get the $$$. We get the food. 
> ÂIf we don't get food, we get mad and never come back. 
> Anything that is not a benefit, you get a check AND food. 
> 
> Those are the customs of my mountain people. It is perhaps different elsewhere.
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> Dave
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bill Kumpe <bkumpe@xxxxxxx>
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:27:09 AM
> Subject: [Harp-L] Paying the Piper
> 
> I am looking for input as to how other groups compensate the professional
> musicians that staff regularly scheduled jams. I was under the impression
> that the customary arrangement was to have a tip jar or pass the hat to help
> them pay for their time and expenses. My Baptist background leads me to
> prefer passing the hat since it allows me to dish out a little group guilt
> and usually increase the sometimes disappointing results. Does it make any
> difference that some of these musicians jam at other places of their own
> choosing without compensation?
> 
> Bill Kumpe
> Route 66 Harmonica Club
> Tulsa, OKÂ 
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