What people pay for
swag?
Me, got a trunk full of it in not having bought since college; one in college I bought and got mocked for doing so though I insisted I didn't. This much less until the older stuff wears out or gets trashed, I kind of prefer the like 10 or 15 year old stuff in a way of no longer collecting
swag - yea, I'm an old salt and if wearing it.... it's more valuable to say say 1999 or 1994 on a
swag than a
current tour date in a concept of yea
swag, but it's a salt to the industry
swag as similar to sun bleached military uniforms were a statement of how long one had been around. This guy's camelflage has turned to for the most part grey for it's black, don't screw with him in concept.
Peak Trading has a good rigging one about "well hung" on the other
hand.
On the other
hand, if you didn't go to a rigging training program, don't wear the shirt for it. I would even think if you ain't IA in general, don't wear the shirt even for a local branch. In general for me as concept, If I didn't directly work on the show, I don't wear the shirt but thats' getting a
bit advanced in concepts of
swag verses having it. This much less Barney and other show shirts are never cool unless you are of a stature you can make it cool.
On the other
hand, we did have a guy that took a bunch of Chicago Blues Fest shirts to Japan immediately afterwards and made big bucks from them years ago.
For me... Hmm the best: more TMB socks - always useful, Lician
jacket, Ushio pen, Osram
bottle opener,
Altman polo shirt, Klien
button up shirt (wife stole), this much less at times real tools such as "hot tools" from Klien, local elecrical supplier memo pad holder, Feir Rigging
mouse pad, Sapsis Rigging clock thingie, Sapsis Rigging computer
screen cleaner
etc.
Less the easy shirt
swag, more the making the Osram rep. in needing a pen using the Ushio pen to write down his notes that brings joy to me in that I don't have a Osram or Phillips pen yet. Or in general, a shirt is easy and even at some
point makes a statement if you have other than t-shirt
swag. This plus useful in if your
mouse pad gets dirty, you have another - forget who I sent the High End 3D
mouse pad to as
swag but it was cool. Don't wear hats but a Osram hat is quality, this much less many have verious
LED key chain fobs. Too bad my Osram
swag sweat shirt has a hole in it... working hard on getting another from them and others. I buy stuff and don't do shows, supplier
swag for me unless I worked hard on as show for me if more important, this much less show
swag or even
Martin or moving light
swag, don't do moving lights in
swag less a challenge.
At some
point swag is easy, it's more what you achieve in being proud of be it some James Taylor "Local Crew" shirt from ten years ago or some effort in getting a good or useful
swag beyond what's just a T-Shirt.
Beyond the
swag there is jackets, pens,
etc. to work for, and strive for. This and don't wear out your
swag you get. Wear it for a while than put it away in not wearing it out. If you earned it, it's gonna be much more valuable in later wearing ten years from now than in constantly wearing and wearing out.