Part 2 - Bridgeport
Connecticut back in July 7, of 2012 PR Festival disaster... Well sorry
this last part took so long to post, but as the cliché says "Better Late than
Never” So to continue the Horror story – Okay so I told you about this
organization refusing to pay for the Parks Dept. personnel which included the
Police Dept. – and confronting this lady (President of the Organization) now
the time has come to do something, so now that the fraternity brother were on
site I got three of the biggest guys and started going around to collect the
lousy $5.00 person, so now you ask how did I know who paid, well I just
confronted each person who looked like they was hiding a lye cause you could
see it in their eyes and facial expressions.
Yes it was scary to go up to people that looked like they could cause a
big scene, but I had to, because I just could not allow the smaller bands and
artist to not get their balance for performing. So I did collect funds for
them, and some for the Big Name artist ie Ismael Miranda and Andy Montanez, and
wow did I have a hard time with the some of the public because I was collecting
the $5.00 the public who really did not want to give me the lousy $5.00 unless
they would see the BIG NAME artists. So it was really tense for all involved
including me… Ya know since the beginning
of my career in Music, for what ever reason people or I should say my peers and
newbies even some artists, always bullshit behind my back…. And this move I
made to get some funds to pay the acts especially the smaller named acts placed
me in the cross hairs of all those who say I’m a crook, or a cheat or things in
that realm because I have always had this six sense and basically can tell when
someone is trying to get over or has some kind of scam…. Which is why many of
my peers don’t like me or talk crap about me and doing this collection made
those and the managers of the Big Artist talk shit like I must have stolen the
bulk of the money…. We here is the thing those managers were told what was up
but they didn’t move to do anything about trying to collect the money, because
guess who gets the 50% of the deposits, they do first which means they take their
cut before they give it to the artist, but hey they never say that part. Well ok so now since things started late, the
time has come to bring the big artist out … but they won’t come out until the
balance is paid, also the pickup band from Boston found out that the money is
short so they don’t want to perform unless they get paid so now no one wants to
get on stage…. In addition, remember many of the public who I basically bullied
to give me the $5.00 and they threaten me if they did not see the big name
acts, so I am watching my six besides trying to control the gossip of my peers
talking shit about me…. Only the smaller
artist know what I did, and maybe not cause I have not worked with them
anymore. So finally, after an hour or
more enough money was collected to at least pay the band to back up the Big
Name acts. So the call goes to the hotel to bring the Names down to the stage….
So the story is about to have a happy ending…
NOT YET…. As the limo started down we get a radio call from the cops
radio saying the police got the order from some big wig to not allow anyone
into the park area which includes the LIMO…. So now, I have to start talking
with the captain who may be able to help since the Big Name managers are not
stepping up. Understand I did not do
this because I wanted to help, I did it because that bunch of people who I
promised that if they paid the $5.00, they would get to see the Big Name
artists…. I was protecting my six… LOL.. Therefore, I convinced the Captain to
get that limo into the park and allow them to perform one song together… well the limo finally gets in and Miranda who
by the way I managed back in the 90s’ was in the limo so I went in to say
hello, and guess what he asked me… “Did I take the money?” Wow! I told him what
transpired, did he believe me who knows, and who cares, all I know is that this
is what my peers without knowing the story does, and it seems that always
happens to me. Well Miranda and Montanez
finally sang one song and the public was somewhat happy and me I got zip, my
balance was never paid and complaining to the city and the radio etc… did
nothing…. All went home and I got marked as the guy who was seen collecting
money from the public so I am the guy who stole and shorted the big name acts…
meanwhile if I didn’t collect what I did, the backup band would have never performed…and
the big names would have never gone on. Oh
yeah what happened to the Organizations president and the consultant they
hired, they disappeared from the minute they found out what was happening. Oh yeah also the vendors were really mad
because they were giving out food with a coupon that people were printing from
the organizations website… and those vendors were looking for their money so a riot
was starting up… This is what truly
happened I saw that so I got out of there before shit happened, I left the Big
Names singing on stage cause the public was going to get pissed once the Big
Name acts stop sing….. The END… Thank
God….
