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Originally Posted by Harvey Gerst  Give em their stuff, thank them for their patience, then RUN, do not walk, away from them. They're what's known in the trade as "losers"; they're gonna self-destruct at some point, and you wanna be as far away from the detonation zone as possible.
Learn from it, but don't keep it going any longer. Write it off and chalk it up to experience. |
Agreed 1000%.
Get A W A Y from them.
You'll never see any money, you'll get tons of grief and quite possibly more threats, and, perhaps worst of all, they will slam your good name to anyonbe they can find.
Tell them to buy a HD and bring it over and they will have their sessions in 4 hours.
These kinds of deals always seem to go down this way. There is no money in bands - even if they go ballistic in their market. Take an hourly at whatever rate you like and be done with "spec" deals. In 10 years, you'll be way ahead of the game financially and emotionally.
Schedule an appointment with the "new guy" engineer for 8 months from now for a beer.
He will be in a far worse situation than you are. At least you got SOME $$$. It should be a fun hang.....
PS - also, I'd tell them to COMPLETELY remove your name from any credits. Play their game against them. Tell them that if they credit you, or EVER mention that you were involved with their project, they will hear from your attorney. That should be fun.