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#236263 - 06/17/08 07:03 AM Use an Agent?
genesis12 Offline
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Registered: 05/04/02
Posts: 36
Loc: Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
I'm curious. How many of this group use an agent and has it worked well for you? I recently met someone (playing a Tyros II) who used an agent and did quite well.
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#236264 - 06/17/08 08:01 AM Re: Use an Agent?
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Registered: 09/21/00
Posts: 43703
NEVER! Thread with Much Caution

& the rooms the are Agent Exclusive you better be "A" List material!

[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 06-17-2008).]

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#236265 - 06/17/08 08:04 AM Re: Use an Agent?
captain Russ Offline
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Registered: 01/02/04
Posts: 7285
Loc: Lexington, Ky, USA
Never have. Good ones (read "honest") are hard to find around here, I'm told.

R.

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#236266 - 06/17/08 08:14 AM Re: Use an Agent?
Fran Carango Offline
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Registered: 05/26/99
Posts: 9673
Loc: Levittown, Pa, USA
There are some rooms and venues you can only play using an agent...

I have no problems using agents...As long as the bottom line is enough for me..

You won't work the casinos or high roller parties without going through an agent..
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#236267 - 06/17/08 09:52 AM Re: Use an Agent?
tony mads usa Offline
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Registered: 01/16/02
Posts: 14376
Loc: East Greenwich RI USA
I get a fair amount of work from an agent ... He is sometimes late in getting the checks out, but other than that, I do not know him to be dishonest ... I may not get the same price as when I book the gig myself, but then I don't have the 'customer haggle' either ...
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#236268 - 06/18/08 05:31 AM Re: Use an Agent?
mikeathome1 Offline
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Registered: 08/23/04
Posts: 1208
Loc: Syracuse NY
I think it depends where you live. I don't live in a resort town and agents are almost nonexistent here compared to 20 years ago.
Come to think of it so is the union. When we were kids and wanted to join the union the old timers didn't want us. So the music scene flourished without the union
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#236269 - 06/20/08 07:07 PM Re: Use an Agent?
hellboy44 Offline
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Registered: 11/04/03
Posts: 541
Loc: Australia
We use both, but mainly Agents.


What Fran said above is what I say too.
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#236270 - 06/20/08 07:14 PM Re: Use an Agent?
Dnj Offline
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Registered: 09/21/00
Posts: 43703
Hellboy nice website ....but no Demos?

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#236271 - 06/20/08 07:49 PM Re: Use an Agent?
hellboy44 Offline
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Registered: 11/04/03
Posts: 541
Loc: Australia
Nah, but we're working on it - going to be filming a Country gig in Hi-Def Video on Sunday (hopefully).


Click on those other links at the bottom though, and you get to see me in an Australian SUBWAY commercial (amongst other things....)
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