[Rhodes22-list] Big Time Concert Promoters

[Steve Alm]

Stan, what did you sing?

On 3/15/03 10:43 AM, "General Boats" <wwrhodes@rhodes22.com> wrote:

> Brad,
> 
> Elton's concerts were sponsored by his immobile radio stations so he
> could not fly away - everyone was stoned anyway so accounting was not a
> problem - but they were fun.  Sat next to Billy King (not related to
> billy boy for those too young to know) at one show (much prettier than
> her media shots) - took pictures from the floor for Chicago (think they
> used one in a promotion or album) but even the boats managed to let me
> mingle - at a back stage party after a met opera, Joan Southerland asked
> "what is a nice boy like you doing selling boas?" and I had to answer,
> "because I can't sing Joan."  but I lied.  I sang once in the 6,000 seat
> Purdue Music Hall - Luckily for Paul, he had not arrived there yet.
> Brad, if you start reminiscing like that, you are going to get as old as
> I am.
> 
> stan/gbi
> 
> brad haslett 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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