[Rhodes22-list] Big Time Concert Promoters

[General Boats]

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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