Not quite the right thread, but about the right audience and I'm not starting a new thread for this -
I have no idea who Thor Harris even is but the original post popped up on my instagram the other night and I was bemused by some of the comments. Trying to decide if I'm taking too much of a "we've all had nights where we get paid zilch you should suffer too" approach or if it is in fact the children who are wrong. Original post.
anyways, I was thinking about that while I was walking around last night and eventually landed on I can't believe this guy posted this shit online, of course you didn't get paid, and yes it's fine that lights and sound and everyone else got paid but you didn't because you are not an employee as a band who is putting on a concert at a music venue. You are a business in partnership with the venue to produce a concert. The guy who shows up to do lights is working as an employee, you are working as a business owner.
Unless of course you are hired to perform live music, which is different than booking a concert as a band.
Also it made me think about the various corporate gigs I've played and why those were always so great. Playing a gig at the Dirty Dog during SXSW with a half pipe in front of the stage with an Adobe logo on it and then some lady is giving us a check for $1000 dollars and asking if everything is all good while we try to pretend like we wouldn't have done this gig for $50 and plates of food.