Newbies Beware!!!
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:20 pm
Three Bands performed at a popular Fort Wayne local bar on Friday evening. Thier eyes were really opened wide.
Arrangements between this establishment and the Bands Promoter were as follows:
The Bands could set thier own door price and would recieve 100% (full till) of these monies
That the promoter's sound person was fine to do the show
All drinks for the band members were to be free.
At the end of the evening, the door person, a Bar employee, told one of the members of the band that 169 people come thru the door. Let's do som math!! Let's say the promoter set the door price at $4.00 per person. 169 x $4.00= $676.00. The promoter thinks to himself, Wow we did good, $676.00 to split between three bands. Great! Or so he thought...........
This establishment didn't stick to the verbal agreement made between the promoter and several of the bands members! They first cut the $676.00 in half....1/2 for the establishment adn 1/2 for the entertainment... What?
Thats not all! Then they made the entertainment pay for THIER sound person. The promoter told this writer that they had already hired a sound person and that the night of the performance was informed that was not happening. We had to use THIER sound guy!
Wait! Then Then they made the entertainment pay for THEIR door person. The promoter goes on to tell us that had he known that fees would be paid from the entertainments take that he could have had his own door person.
It gets better! They also paid the Bartender a gratuity! Many of the band members had to pay for their beverages, an also had long waits for this privelege. Also, had to pay what this writer thought was hig pricing.
If the promoter had known these facts, he may have thought twice before puttinh his bands through turmoil. If the entertainment is to pay all these fees...shouldn't they have been informed at the time the verbal agreement was made! And even further, shouldn't they choose the amounts to pay the BAR EMPLOYEES!
These three BAR EMPLOYEES, together, made more than the three bands that generated the paying customers. $75.00 for THEIR sound person, $75.00 for THEIR door person, and whatever for the Bartender.........
At the end of the night, $200.00 actually went to the entertainment! That figures out to about $15.00 a band member. (not even gas money!)
Luckily, the bands were there for the exposure, not the Cashola!!!!!
What's up with that?
Arrangements between this establishment and the Bands Promoter were as follows:
The Bands could set thier own door price and would recieve 100% (full till) of these monies
That the promoter's sound person was fine to do the show
All drinks for the band members were to be free.
At the end of the evening, the door person, a Bar employee, told one of the members of the band that 169 people come thru the door. Let's do som math!! Let's say the promoter set the door price at $4.00 per person. 169 x $4.00= $676.00. The promoter thinks to himself, Wow we did good, $676.00 to split between three bands. Great! Or so he thought...........
This establishment didn't stick to the verbal agreement made between the promoter and several of the bands members! They first cut the $676.00 in half....1/2 for the establishment adn 1/2 for the entertainment... What?
Thats not all! Then they made the entertainment pay for THIER sound person. The promoter told this writer that they had already hired a sound person and that the night of the performance was informed that was not happening. We had to use THIER sound guy!
Wait! Then Then they made the entertainment pay for THEIR door person. The promoter goes on to tell us that had he known that fees would be paid from the entertainments take that he could have had his own door person.
It gets better! They also paid the Bartender a gratuity! Many of the band members had to pay for their beverages, an also had long waits for this privelege. Also, had to pay what this writer thought was hig pricing.
If the promoter had known these facts, he may have thought twice before puttinh his bands through turmoil. If the entertainment is to pay all these fees...shouldn't they have been informed at the time the verbal agreement was made! And even further, shouldn't they choose the amounts to pay the BAR EMPLOYEES!
These three BAR EMPLOYEES, together, made more than the three bands that generated the paying customers. $75.00 for THEIR sound person, $75.00 for THEIR door person, and whatever for the Bartender.........
At the end of the night, $200.00 actually went to the entertainment! That figures out to about $15.00 a band member. (not even gas money!)
Luckily, the bands were there for the exposure, not the Cashola!!!!!
What's up with that?