General Music Chat

Go with MS1.
Buy a Fender P Bass.
Be happy.

I dont wanna get chased off this forum like i did Talkbass,
but a fender would be a MAJOR downgrade in playability, tone, and overall performance, from my current set up.

Theres a reason Mesa came to be, and its becuase fender was/is so bad for tone that something had to be done. But then again like I said before, they dont cater to my bass needs. Just my opinion.

I always thought Fender basses sounded pretty good.
Fender Precision + Ampeg = Yes

But I'm no bass player. To you it might feel like youre trying to street race a Model T.

Maybe you could play one when you do their venues, and just play your other stuff at the non sponsor venues.

Im curious what do you mean by sponsorship.

Generally its just a discount, our basssit had a dean sponsorship and they gave him a 40% discount off MSRP, the sad thing was if you hunted around you can get a better deal by shopping around.

The word sponsorship always bothered me as I have a background in racing motorcyles, It generally didnt mean much.

Our bassist is currently working for Playboy Energy Drinks they will provide product for our shows, no money but it kinda looks good having Play boy on board with Aint Yo Mama, they kinda go together.

I have gotten some local business to pay us to advertise them at gigs. I had a bike shop, a car dealership, and a bank. A couple of stores.

More bands should take this approach, if you know folks that own local business's approach them about backing your band. Tell them you have an audience, you can put their services or products in front of people. You will do this for X amount of money per gig. They give you some calendars or promotional stuff to destribute to your audience. This is what the big boys do, theres no reason youc ant do it on a smaller local level and it might be the difference between being paid and not being paid.

That's BS.
A sponsor is supposed to back you while you advertise for them.
Anything less seems to be just masturbation.

JW has this one pegged pretty good.
Coke comes to you and says we are going to provide 1000 dollars of sponsorship. For advertising etc,etc,...All you have to do is sell the 5 thousand cases of soda we are sending over for the event,,,,COD.