Portland Poster by EMEK - he needs 2 tickets

LloydXmas

JimmyV wrote:

FrankBauer wrote:

Spiritual_Chaos wrote:

Weird he's asking for free ones instead of just buying...

to be fair, out of principle, since he did design the poster for the event, i dont think he should have to pay to enter that said event.

and hes not asking for free ones, hes asking for a trade. which i would love to see what would be on the table.

Why should he not have to pay? If he wants tickets for the show as part of his compensation he should work that into his contract. He did not do that poster for free. He was paid, and he will make a killing selling his artist edition for more than most others would.

Buy your own tickets EMEK.

I do agree that if he wanted tickets they should have been listed in the contract. Maybe in the past it wasn't and it was just assumed that he would get tickets like before. either way, this may backfire on him down the road.

mydogmookieblaylock

For fucks sake - shit talking a guy who isn't even on the forum - didn't post on the forum - and is trying to trade something for a pair of tickets.

FrankBauer

JimmyV wrote:

Why should he not have to pay? If he wants tickets for the show as part of his compensation he should work that into his contract. He did not do that poster for free. He was paid, and he will make a killing selling his artist edition for more than most others would.

Buy your own tickets EMEK.

not sure if there is an "official contract..." from the few artists i've talked to, they get contacted and they come up with an image. maybe there's a contract...who knows, but it all seems rather informal. and i've heard the same too, that PJ/management isn't that kindest to their artists. and from what i understand, they are also handcuffed creatively and limited to how they sell their AE. and maybe someone else knows this definitively, but the artists are not paid a commission for their work right? the only money they make is from the AE they sell?

posters are a big part of the concert experience....i feel like if you contribute to an event, especially how damn important posters are to us fans, and making it a special memorable night, 2 tickets to that show isn't a ridiculous request. i think it should be expected if said artist happens to be in the city and can attend the show. you're right, making a poster for the band, everyone wins...artist gains notoriety and makes money (but so does the band), i just dont see a big deal for 2 tickets.

if anyone has earned the right to "overcharge" for artist edition gigposters, its emek. and mydog is right, emek didnt post this in the forums, he made a simple request on FB and it was for a trade (nothing wrong with that). at the end of the day, the band can give tickets to whoever they want to.

elwayvedder

you are correct, artists make their $ on the S/N artist sale. PJ makes the money on the show editions.

choop

elwayvedder wrote:

you are correct, artists make their $ on the S/N artist sale. PJ makes the money on the show editions.

and pj make considerably more than the artists. printing costs are about $5-6 a poster i think. they are making like $20K on posters, whereas an artist is making like $10-15K.

the venues probably get a cut of PJs share though.

aurynsdad

joe2468 wrote:

....word on the streets is pearl jam doesn't take care of there artist ...........i good friends with a certain artist and he tells me all the time how working with pj can be a real pain the ass

I'd like to hear more about this.

JimmyV

FrankBauer wrote:

JimmyV wrote:

Why should he not have to pay? If he wants tickets for the show as part of his compensation he should work that into his contract. He did not do that poster for free. He was paid, and he will make a killing selling his artist edition for more than most others would.

Buy your own tickets EMEK.

not sure if there is an "official contract..." from the few artists i've talked to, they get contacted and they come up with an image. maybe there's a contract...who knows, but it all seems rather informal. and i've heard the same too, that PJ/management isn't that kindest to their artists. and from what i understand, they are also handcuffed creatively and limited to how they sell their AE. and maybe someone else knows this definitively, but the artists are not paid a commission for their work right? the only money they make is from the AE they sell?

posters are a big part of the concert experience....i feel like if you contribute to an event, especially how damn important posters are to us fans, and making it a special memorable night, 2 tickets to that show isn't a ridiculous request. i think it should be expected if said artist happens to be in the city and can attend the show. you're right, making a poster for the band, everyone wins...artist gains notoriety and makes money (but so does the band), i just dont see a big deal for 2 tickets.

if anyone has earned the right to "overcharge" for artist edition gigposters, its emek. and mydog is right, emek didnt post this in the forums, he made a simple request on FB and it was for a trade (nothing wrong with that). at the end of the day, the band can give tickets to whoever they want to.

I don't think two tickets is a big deal either but I also don't think EMEK should just expect that he will be comped tickets. He was paid for his work. He will make more money charging fans for his AE's. Expecting tickets too seems a lot like entitlement.

choop

^ in fairness to EMEK, i live in Portland and end up at a lot of the shows he does posters for and he is always there at those shows. maybe it was just something he expected because of precedent. again, if good seats could be bought right now, i'm sure he would buy them, but there are only obstructed view tickets. and they just released them, last week it was no tickets available. i don't think its unreasonable to assume. i bet ames bros get tix to the seattle shows.

and through work i've been close to the friends/family section at PJ before and they definitely comp a ton of people, so this whole situation is odd to me.

bootlegger10

Maybe Emek is making a public statement here. I think he is taking a shot at PJ by saying the band din't have two tickets for him. I don't see how you could read his statement and not see it as a dig against PJ.

joe2468

Trust me he's takin a stab at them.....the artist get shit in return from pj
And to add Gass to the fire.you ever notice how Ames always gets the ok to sell more s/n prints hen Everyone else
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madtowndave

Wow, that's really disappointing that he wasn't set up with even shitty seats. :nono:

LloydXmas

What's his FB page? The official one looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.

mydogmookieblaylock

EMEK X EMEK is his FB page.

mydogmookieblaylock

EMEK X EMEK is his FB page.