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06-28-2007 08:53 AM |
Hehehehe.... we had a few hundred very peeved rap fans at the last "concert" held at my theater. None of the performers showed up. The promoter was so green it was painful. He dragged in a couple local acts to try and stall for time, but it was not happening. Show was supposed to start by 7 or 8, depending who you talked to, but by 9:15 (with literally zero performers from the list showing up) my boss said he was going to shut everything down by 10:30 if there was still nobody there. He notified the PD (who was on scene babysitting) to raise up one notch. When we officially shut down, they were in riot gear (which is just a big face shield it seems). But it sounds more impressive to say riot gear. Some of them were cool with it, some looked forward to some action, and some of them were pissed. They had looked forward to a night of babysitting and now they have to work. ;)
10:25- promoter's still claiming his band is on the way, they got pulled over by PD and will be here in a minute. Um, no.
This was the evening that some tweeker talked his way backstage (promoter told us to give him a pass) and stole money from the promoter and possibly some tickets for the orchestra pit.
The followup to the story is that the promoter wrote $15,000 of bad checks that night, including one to the PD for being there. His house has been ransacked twice, and the guy's brother thinks we gave out his address.
It was kind of funny for us, but sad for the promoter.
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