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I'm not trying to start a fire but one of my pet peeves is when you post an ad looking for a gig, and someone responds to your ad, and then you're either too busy or you've found a gig or maybe you're not interested, could you PLEASE respond anyway??? It's like looking for a job....you fill out the application and when they call for an appointment, you don't respond. I know this is trivial and perhaps I am being a jerk, but it just frustrates me when I spend time trying to contact someone and they don't even respond. They just blow the e-mail away. I know we're busy with life and such, and like I said, maybe you have a gig already. But, I feel if you take the time to respond, you become a solid person.

Sorry to cry but this gets up my nose!

Shred on everyone!!

2shred

Yes, it's a pain in the butt. But people in general are so self absorbed and inconsiderate.

Bout all we can do is attempt to be the opposite and pray it rubs off.

I agree. I've been contacted and I wrote back telling the people I wasn't interested. I sent out like eight e-mails last week and one person responded. And even he wrote me stressing in the first sentence that he wanted to get paid.

I'm a professional vocalist and I work with musicians who have toured with big named people. If we have time or whatnot, we're always on the lookout for someone who turns our head. We want to get paid too, but I'm not going come out in a post with guns blazing about how I have to get paid.

You never know who knows who in this business. You want to be remembered for being professional and tactful. I can tell a musician's professionalism just how they respond.

I've had musicians send me tracks that are all out of tune, they can't sing, then want to cop an attitude with me when I tell them I'm not interested and their songs need work.

I've answered musicians who've had ads placed and they've talked to me like I've approached Vinny the Godfather for a favor. Seriously.

Honestly, I've never found any musicians through ads. Everybody I've met has been from going to jams.

Chaeya

KLUGMO wrote:Generational lack of manners.

Man, I work with all kinds ...

It's a general behavior of man, not generational.

Honestly, I've never found any musicians through ads. Everybody I've met has been from going to jams.

Yes......

There are an extraordinary amount of people online with no experience whatsoever
spouting their opinions as if they knew something....

Not in this forum though........

Stranger wrote:

Honestly, I've never found any musicians through ads. Everybody I've met has been from going to jams.

Yes......

There are an extraordinary amount of people online with no experience whatsoever
spouting their opinions as if they knew something....

Not in this forum though........

Whoo? You mean us?

Chaeya

You guys pickin on my Cisco and Chaeya . CCCOOOMMMe on.
Geeze, next you'll be pickin on Crip.

Perhaps you need thicker skin. The music business requires that. Not picking on you, but this appears to be the whiny woosy generation that runs to big brother whenever a particular word, look, or action offends them. Doesn't anyone just say. Oh well. Tried that ...... and move on?

PC has turned this generation into a generation of cry babies. Someone used to insult you and you would return the insult or ignore it. Now they run to a lawyer who promotes the crisis on the national news, which in turn sells it off as the "fear of the day". In fact, the evening and morning news look more like "Entertainment tonight" or "Insider" than anything now days.

You know what's funny? Before Big Brother got involved, everything always went so much smoother. There wasn't so much cyberspace clutter. I always found ads on bulletins at music stores and would be jamming the week after I called, or got a phone call.

For you younger peeps, that was when everyone only used their home phone, and the occassional payphone.

Why is it when someone voices an opinion, they're whining. This isn't the whiney generation, this is the "we don't want to hear anything negative that would make us leave our f**k comfort zone and make some f**k changes" generation.

And if you call what I did above whining then I've been listening to musicians whine since I've been in the business. Ya'll are either too damn old to remember, or the smoke from the weed was too thick back then. I've seen more fights, bitch sessions and so on for decades, and the reason no one heard about it was there was no Internet and there was no one else to bitch to but your friends. I've seen musicians get up and walk out of gigs, jams and rehearsals because of rifs they were having with the bass player or the keyboard player and so on. So that stiff upper lip sh*t is a damned lie. Please.

I do know something about the business, believe it or not, so I don't think sh*t. And y'all can roll your eyes at me until they pop out your head. I'm here and I'm going to voice my opinion. Don't like it, that's your problem.

(Big refreshing sigh) That felt f**k wonderful! If I smoked, I'd have a cigarette.

Chaeya

Kruliosis wrote:You know what's funny? Before Big Brother got involved, everything always went so much smoother. There wasn't so much cyberspace clutter. I always found ads on bulletins at music stores and would be jamming the week after I called, or got a phone call.

For you younger peeps, that was when everyone only used their home phone, and the occassional payphone.

The hell is a payphone?

Chaeya wrote:Why is it when someone voices an opinion, they're whining. This isn't the whiney generation, this is the "we don't want to hear anything negative that would make us leave our f**k comfort zone and make some f**k changes" generation.

And if you call what I did above whining then I've been listening to musicians whine since I've been in the business. Ya'll are either too damn old to remember, or the smoke from the weed was too thick back then. I've seen more fights, bitch sessions and so on for decades, and the reason no one heard about it was there was no Internet and there was no one else to bitch to but your friends. I've seen musicians get up and walk out of gigs, jams and rehearsals because of rifs they were having with the bass player or the keyboard player and so on. So that stiff upper lip sh*t is a damned lie. Please.

I do know something about the business, believe it or not, so I don't think sh*t. And y'all can roll your eyes at me until they pop out your head. I'm here and I'm going to voice my opinion. Don't like it, that's your problem.

(Big refreshing sigh) That felt f**k wonderful! If I smoked, I'd have a cigarette.

Chaeya

Thanks C, that was as good as a cigarette!

And y'all can roll your eyes at me until they pop out your head. I'm here and I'm going to voice my opinion. Don't like it, that's your problem.

(Big refreshing sigh) That felt f**k wonderful! If I smoked, I'd have a cigarette.

Chaeya[/quote.

That girl is tough... I like it.