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NOTICE: Unload your gear at night
| Message Board > General Chitchat > NOTICE: Unload your gear at night |
| Lucius User Info... | Stop being lazy. It will take 30 mins and save you thousands in gear replacement costs. Cheers, Lucius - Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:09am Edited: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:15am | ||
| J User Info... | I hear that! Or at least invest in an alarm thats more sensitive than.... well you get the idea. Or, my personal favorite, put a charge on the frame and zap any asshole that tries! - Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:21am | ||
| Mike S User Info... | Or join SOCAN and get proper musicians iunsurance for cheap. - Sat, 13 Feb 2010 2:06pm | ||
| Glen Santics User Info... | Lucius is right...it is a good reminder to all of us musicians that we need to be more careful with our investments! If these scum bags will break into a car for the change in your ashtray of course they think nothing of bustin' in for $2,000-$3,000 of music gear that they can hawk for $500... People are desperate, they think nothing of someone elses hard earned possesions I learnt the hard way (see STOLEN! in Gear section) that even though it's 3:30-4:00 in the morning and everything is in black bags in the car so you figure who would notice anyways, alarm is on so you'll hear anything anyways, and your tired after set-up - playing for 4 hours - teardown etc etc, and you're parked along side your house... Busted window...$275 Extension cords...$300 Gretsch drum set....$1500 . . . Lesson learned...PRICELESS! - Sun, 14 Feb 2010 9:49am | ||
| Tall Cans User Info... | $300 on extension cords? Christ, what kind of cords did you have, and why? Just curious. - Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:42am | ||
| Hearse User Info... | Insurance isn't an excuse to be lazy. It's also not a legitimate way to replace old/ broken gear. - Mon, 15 Feb 2010 5:40pm | ||
| glen Santics User Info... | Ha ha...well I don't want to start a huge debate about this topic...Is it smart to unload your gear at night? YES! Is it being lazy if you don't? NO! Now I'm just talking in general terms here with this example, but I'm sure it represents alot of musicians experiences - I don't think it is lazy for someone to work 8-9 hours during the day, get home and grab a quick bite to eat and walk the dog, then pack WAY too much gear into a small vehicle, drive through bumper to bumper trsffic, spend 1-2 hours setting up gear, play for 4 hours entertaining the crowd, tear down gear for a good hour and then drive home arriving home at 3:00 am...like I said, just in general terms, this is what a musicians gig playing day consists of! I think by anyones definition this would classify as a very hard working individual! And if you did that 2 days straight! Damn that would be the death of any normal person...musicians for the most part are anything but lazy! Again, it is SMART to unload your gear...but if you don't feel like it after working 16-18 hours straight you're not lazy, and that does not constitute justification for some low-life to break into your car and steal it! The person who breaks into your car is the lazy one! They should get a job! A locked car is off limits just as a locked house is...most musicians don't put their gear in a vault in the house either... Just some food for thought... - Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:08pm | ||
| BBJones User Info... | Rules are simple: - put your gear away OR - sleep IN the vehicle Those are your only choices. Along with that you also have insurance. That is your only choice. Leave any of those out and you are taking risk of losing something both expensive and important to you. Thus is the way of the world sadly. Your only other option is to use your gear vehicle like a bait trap and put long spikes in your baseball bat so when you smack the crackthief they don't bounce off and get away... - Thu, 18 Feb 2010 6:19pm | ||
| 13 Flames User Info... | spikes are needed on the bat as I got two shots in on a crackhead that broke into the niegbours truck....he got up and ran like Forest Gump...and a quality alarm is a must on your "band"van or trailer".... - Tue, 13 Apr 2010 1:04pm | ||
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