General Music Chat

Traveling into Canada with gear requires documentation - you've got to have an itemized ist of everything you are bringing in, bringing out, etc. Even if you are just bringing your instruments, make sure you've got bill of sales, etc.
Also, check into any tax requirements - you may need to register with the Canada version of the IRS

Traveling into Canada with gear requires documentation - you've got to have an itemized ist of everything you are bringing in, bringing out, etc. Even if you are just bringing your instruments, make sure you've got bill of sales, etc.
Also, check into any tax requirements - you may need to register with the Canada version of the IRS

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thought i'd add
What kind of wood is in your favorite guitar? is it documented?

Now if you could be provided with a guarantee they would not be seized , and the pay was enough to cover the costs of passports if you ain't got em. I'd think about it JW, it is pretty up that way, but heck we got plenty of trees here at home. Must be some rich bikers?

I bet I got one guitar I can't say whats in it.

N I see your from Memphis too, cool small world.

Really the more Ive thought on this deal, I dont think I want to worry about it. Would be a really cool vacation is the only positive for me at this point, dealing with crossing into Canada, making sure we get enough money out of it, its really a little out of my league, so Im just gonna pass on it.

I will stick to my local things that take up 8-10 hours of my time, and leave $150 in my pocket at the end of the night, I think thats the best thing for me to do.

I would hate to have the Canadien IRS after me, lose a guitar and wind up coming out of my pocket for a bunch of money cause I forgot about something. But its really cool that some outfit like this found us and presented us with a proposal, if I were 20 years younger i would do everything in my power to make it happen, but I know my place musically these days, just a lowly weekend warrior hack thats what i am!

Traveling into Canada with gear requires documentation - you've got to have an itemized ist of everything you are bringing in, bringing out, etc. Even if you are just bringing your instruments, make sure you've got bill of sales, etc.
Also, check into any tax requirements - you may need to register with the Canada version of the IRS

I go to Canada about once a year. I've gotten in without a passport before (was much tougher getting back into the USA) and have only been hindered by border patrol once. They wanted taxes on the CDs I brought in.

Canada is a breeze. The USA has the rudest customs agents of any country you can enter, even for citizens.

It's not always a problem but when it is....

JW, I've played in B.C. a few times with different bands. there can be some problems if your not prepared. First you need a Temporary Employment Authorization for the band which costs about $450 Canadian so make sure the venue has applied and payed for this authorization before you take off. Second, make sure nobody in the band has ever been arrested for anything and I mean anything. One of our band members was refused entry at the border because of an old D.U.I.. Third, make sure you have a written agreement ahead of time with at least a travel reimbursement guarantee.

Thanks Mike we had already looked into the work visa,

Im not going to pursue this deal, cause there is really no reason for me to go thru what all it will take to play it, but thanks for the info man

Good To Hear From You

Keep On Rockin

Thanks Mike we had already looked into the work visa,

Im not going to pursue this deal, cause there is really no reason for me to go thru what all it will take to play it, but thanks for the info man

Good To Hear From You

Keep On Rockin

Hey, if you got invited... it wont cost anything to see if they will fill out all the PW and Logistics and stuff...

I drove by Mason (sort of) on my way to Gnashvile yesterday. Was coming across the Mississippi Bridge @ I40 and something in the road gave me a blowout (front left tire) but there was nowhere to pull over on the bridge so I kept driving on the rim for another mile to find a safe spot.

What I didn't know is that this object also put a huge gash in my fuel tank and I leaked $101 worth of fuel all the way across the bridge. Had that wheel come off, the rim would have been throwing sparks and I would be a vapor today and the Mississippi Bridge would have a big hole in it.

So after the fire department left and all the fuel was gone, I called a wrecker and got the van over to Dod's Ford, rented a car and made it to the gig in Nashvile about 30 minutes late.

But I'm going back to Memphis for the van today and don't have to be in Knoxville until Saturday morning.


You playing in a city anywhere along I40 in Tennessee tonight?

No YOD Im not, in fact Im leaving early in the morning with my wife and kids for a spring break trip in east tn.

So you were the guy on the news huh, LOL, Im just kidding, I didnt really see anything.

I live about a mile south of Exit 35, between jackson and memphis, and work about 5 miles north of that exit.

You mention Knoxville are you playing up that way over the weekend or first of the week?

Well darn, wish I could have caught the band. Yes, Knoxville tomorrow. Then hang in the smoky mtns a couple days before Indiana Wednesday

We are going to go to Asheville NC and tour Biltmore on sunday, then head down to Gatlinburg mon and tues before heading home.

jw,
where you going to playin baltimore?
ramshead?

Biltmore is a house that the Vanderbilts built, its got 250 rooms, its spring break and Im taking my kids up there

Man I bet you could get some great echo in that house!

oh sorry my mistake
a little ADD sett'n in