[Rhodes22-list] Big Time Concert Promoters

[Steve Alm]

Wow, great story Brad.  Unfortunately, stories like this were almost cliché
back then.  I think you made the right move getting out.

Slim

On 3/15/03 9:04 AM, "brad haslett" <flybrad@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Unlike Elton, my exposure to concert promoting was
> very short.  I used to fly a promoter from Little Rock
> in the early 80's and he invited me to a Walynn
> Jennings concert at Delta State University in
> Mississippi.  Because I was an accounting student at
> the time he enlisted me in "cash counting" with the
> University officials just before the music started.
> About fifteen minutes into the count the promoter told
> me to leave for the airport, have the engines running,
> and wait for him to show up.  An hour later he came
> running across the tarmac with two briefcases, jumped
> in the plane and yelled "hit it!".  He didn't tell the
> whole story but they seemed to have come up a "bit
> short" to pay the expenses of the band and the arena.
> I decided to stick with more mundane ways of making a
> living like flying jets and stayed away from concert
> promoting and accounting.
> 
> Brad 
> 
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