From Jeff Waye Sent Tue, Sep 29th 1998, 00:17
From Jeff Waye Sent Tue, Sep 29th 1998, 00:17
>What do you know? A tour that supposedly wants " $3000 " playing tiny >places that could never gross that much. Hmm, wonder if a certain booking >agent isn't just talking out of two sides of his mouth. > >- I would have gladly plunked down $1000 for these folks to do a >show on their supposed "day off" (but *not* " $3000 "). I'm moved to respond so that Ninja and our booking agent don't come off looking like assholes... The point is, you were looking to book the show the same weekend that we already had other shows booked. Washington on the Friday, Philly on the Sunday. Saturday was a day off. If we were to give you a show that weekend, it would have ment cancelling 1 of these shows. Therefore we would need to get the same guarantee as the one we would be losing, plus ad on the extra costs of re-booking flights for 4 people to your show, plus re-booking flights for the 4 people to get back to the next destination (which was NY. As we were booked in Philly the night before, it's an easy/cheap drive to NY). All these things come into play when our agent is making his descisions, so hence that is the price he arrived at to make it feasible for us to do the show you wanted. There is no way we would have booked anything on their Saturday day off, as that would have ment they would have done 9 shows in a row (anyone who has ever toured knows that kind of run turns you into a walking sleeping person who has no interest in mixing records...sure Black Flag and Minor Threat could do it back in the day, but our artists aren't nearly that hardcore). Our tours are not cash grabs (we always lose money touring), and if our booking agent didn't explain all the above to you, it's only because he has a million other things to deal with. He gets paid to lose us as little money as possible, and that's all he was doing. Hopefully that clears things up. Take Care Jeff