[quote name='Russ' post='2461' date='May 19 2007, 09:21 PM']I had a short-lived Warwick endorsement... this was back when my old band were doing pretty well, we had a big festival appearance coming up, we had the album out, and were pretty active. At the time, a lot of Warwick's UK endorsers had slipped below the radar - Stuart Zender had left Jamiroquai, Glen Diani wasn't doing anything after One Minute Silence split up, and so on, so they were after new blood.
I got our manager at the time to send them our press pack, and they got back to me and offered me an endorsement... this wasn't a full-on "free basses" deal though, more like a 60% off list price deal. So I got a Streamer Jazzman... and really didn't like it (horrible, horrible, baseball-bat neck).
In the end, I told Warwick I wasn't interested in pursuing the endorsement anymore, and sold the Jazzman for more or less list price. Thank you Warwick!
Basically, you have to be actively gigging in reasonably high-profile situations, with some visibility at gigs and in the press. You need a good press pack, and a tenacious manager to chase it up. [/quote]
I had an artist endorsement thingy from Warwick too for a while - got uber discount and some sets of Warwick blacks, plus the loan of a couple of spankingly nice Thumb 5 neck thru basses. Got to play a few different Warwicks in gigs and stuff too. Then MAD had their big change around and moved to Manchester or wherever they are now. I've lactated more than I've had word back from them since then (and I don't exactly spurt milk out of my nips).