SteveOTB said:

Joe of Nec said:

mike at zero said:

In regards to a suffocation show, Joe of New England Concerts & OIV:
I will be heading uo tp the office soon and will check if there is still any openings for that bill. You might have to play a different show first to see how your band works out for us. All shows are ticketed events and bands are required to pre sell tickets. National acts require 50-75 tickets to play. Are you able to do this?

Life at Zero:We've palyed mark's with Suffocation, kryptopsy, goatwhore, we belong on this bill. ask Bernie.

Joe of New England Concerts & OIV:You guys are added to the November 17th Suffocation show. You can do one of 2 things. Either 50 tickets to play or 75 and New England Concerts will give you 25 free for you to sell and make $500. Let me know what you are able to do. Also is there any way you could hop on the July 28th Till we Die & One In Vain show this Saturday and have 20-30 people show up with out selling tickets? Please send me a contact number.
Thanks-- Joe

Life at zero:Well my band said no to either show, and i have to agree. The whole, us selling 50 tickets for pay to play is rediculous. What is the point of a promoter that doesn't lift a finger but gets paid regardless. How bout you pay the local bands regardless, you sell the tickets, and stop bleeding the local bands dry to fill your pockets. I found out or last show was supposed to be with Fuck the facts and you guys offered them more money to steel money from local bands. looks like we are starting a boycott of the rock club, and we will bring others with us./ Remeber the bombshelter, we helped shut them down we can do the same to you. Besides, shows aren't fun with TNT nazi security there

Joe of New England Concerts & OIV:Wow - if you guys had a clue on how it works you would be red faced with stupidity. Good luck playing in front of 20 people for ever. Thanks for your kind words and good luck getting booked at any major venue

Life at zero:Sweet joe, i posted this on Rttp, Goodluck now fuckface. We have more respect in the local seen then you assraping retards. And we don't need your approval to play anywhere in new england. 20 people huh, when did you guys turn into the biggest promoters in the universe fuckstick? You actually believe that you control the local seen? I'll post this for all the local bands you use to read, and see where you have support. I'm sure you can always use Black out Frenzy and C.S.D.O to play all your shows. So are you actually the guy who sucks the "national" act's dicks to get them to play that shit hole? I hope you all rot on a blazing altar of syphilis!

You know- I wasn't gonna sink down to this whiney bitches level, but going against my best judgement I would like to say a few things to Mike Zero. People who have half a brain can see you are an ignorant ass. Before you dis on some one you have no clue about try asking a few questions instead of lashing out like a high school kid who just had his girl taken from him. So hear is an explaination about who I am and how you interpreted what I wrote all fucking wrong.First off for you to say that I am filling my pockets with money from shows is a total lie. I always put %100 into every band that I work with cause I have been on the other end of the band promoter relationship for over 13 years now. I grew up in with nothing my father past away when I was 5 and my mom struggled every day just to get us by. I started playing trumpet when I was 5 and all through my school career learned how to play all types of instruments. My whole life has been dedicated to music. When I got old enough to work I started a band with some friends. By my freshman year I was going to school, working a part time job ( just to have some decent clothes) , and playing 2 or more shows a week. I always stayed in the back ground when it came to the business side of things. We played hundreds of small shows anywhere we could but never made it real far and eventualy broke up. Me and my friends started the band up a few more times and always it was the same deal. Finaly we gave up. I never finished high school but then went to get my GED it wasn't that I was dumb but just didn't want to be at school when I could be out and feel free. I went back to school to be a medic and past. At this time I wasn't in a band or doing anything with music. I thought about it every day and night. I ended up getting bored with my job and quit to try something different. I just wanted to do something that I liked and didn't mind going to every day but couldn't find it. I have always worked for every thing I have and never have gotten any hand outs. I wanted to do better at life So I put myself through college and got a few degrees in business/sales and marketing and then public relations. Over a year ago or so I started up my band again but this time took all control over where we played and all other business related issues. We started out by playing a few local clubs with our first being the compound in Fitchburg mass. (That wonderful pic you see above) It was the same shit as before -- you show up and no one has a clue when you are supposed to go on bands are switching spots and every one is arguing. We play in front of the other bands and if we are lucky we have a good night with a hundred or so people. It sucked ass we wanted more structure and a better promoted show. I started setting up my own shows at clubs that would pay $300 a night to be split amongst all the bands. It still felt like we weren't realy getting our music out to anybody. My business started to grow and before I knew it I was booking shows that my band wasn't even playing at. I am not some sort of big shot and never was. I was trying to book a show In souhthern mass at the rocks rock club and I asked this band if they would play. They responded with a no cause they were playing with powerman that week. Then they must have told Bernie about my band and what I was doing cause he asked us to play a show at Marks for Till We Die's dvd recording party. We were asked to pre sell 75 tickets. It was tough but we did it. When we played that night I swear to god on my fathers grave there was 500 plus squished in the club with only ass to belly room. It was a rush playing a show of that size and hearing the crowd chant your name. I felt like we made it to the next level. Every show was profesional with a great staff, sound guy, and sound equipment.Yes bernie had us sell tickets to many events after that eventually once he knew we had built up a large fan base he started adding us to bills with no ticket sales. A few times we did have to dip in our pockets to cover a few tickets every now and then, but thats cause we were playing 4 shows a week. I never realy questioned the money thing because he was investing so much time and money into our band. When we needed shirts to sell he bought us 100 of them. He constantly spen $2,000 or more on radio adds to help get us noticed. He has always been a respectfull and helpfull person to our group. He even helped us get distribution at major stores. But we never acted like pompus ass holes. I missed booking shows And one day the opportunity came up to book at marks. The show went real well and all the bands were happy. So I continued to book shows under 13 Beats Entertainment. Eventually I was asked to become partners with New England Concerts. Mike-- You can ask any band who has worked with me how many bands I have kcked off a show for not selling what they said they could. The answer will be none. I treat every band with respect and explain how we work, why we do it this way and what we can offer in the future after we see how the band works as a whole. Don't discredit me cause you were PMS ing one afternoon. To get back to your remark about filling my pockets -- I make about $200 per show that I set up from the beginig. Some of theese shows take a month to book cause I actually put time and care into the events that I book so the bands cn get the most exposure they can from my events. I realized quickly how much a show of that calibur costs to run. Honestly in my eyes if you can't pull in 30 people to my show I don't really want to book you anyways. About your past problems with NEC I can almost bet it was do to your attitude and lack of intelligence. If a The only time we will pay a larger band more to play is if it truly benefits the whole show-- meaning they will draw a large crowd ( which takes the strain off of the local bands and there ticket sales. Almost every day I book national acts with local who only need to pre sell 25 tickets to play. The bands are aware that time slots are based on ticet sales. The band who works the hardest gets the best spots it is fair. All that aside -- I still book 2 shows a month at Marks with no ticket sales. Theese shows high lite local acts only and the ocasional band passing through. The bottom line is you asked me to play the show and when I expained what was required you lashed out like a fag that hasn't got his dick fix for the day. By me saying good luck playing in front of 20 peole for ever was rude of me , but uncomparable to your malicious remarks against me and my passion. And if you took me saying good luck at getting shows at any larger clubs as me black balling you and thinking I have all controll over the whole scene then you are even dummer than I first thought. It was a reference to your attitude. Dude lay off of the roids. If you don't like how we do things than thats fine. You have a right to your beliefs. But don't smear my name cause you didn't get your way. To Be honest I think your band sucks big harry nuts and I was trying to be nice ny trying you out first before adding you to a better bill. You never know how a band is on stage until you see them and since the only show you had booked was in December of this year I felt i need to see you play one time before commiting your band to a bigger show. The bottom line is your an ass. I was trying to be nice by brushing your remarks off and telling you to have good luck with what ever path you take and you pulled this childish Bullshit. Fuck you and I can't wait to see you play this winter. I will make sure to blow you a kiss from the front row (the only row). Mike don't hate me cause I am doing what I love to do. Feel free to ask any other band how there relationship has been with NEC and working with me. If you don't want to work then stop your bitching.

Owww my eyes.

Okay so I get on the train, I sit in a 3 seater by the window…there are a bunch of other seats open or whatever and this family of 4 comes and 2 of them sit with me and 2 sit next to them in the 2 seater…

Which boggles my mind because they could have easily taken 2 2 seaters and left an open space on the 3 seater with me but no, they had to be jerks….so anyway, this guy gets in and spills his coke all over my pants and shirt….

So I go "what the fuck" not even in a threatening way or anything, just by surprise because my head was facing the other way….

So the guy goes "apologize" and I go "excuse me?" and he goes "apologize for cursing in front of my two kids or I'll get the train conductor to kick you off the train"

And I go "well buddy, maybe if you were paying attention to where you were putting your FUCKING coke, I would have said FUCK in front of your FUCKING children"

At this point the guy is basically in my face and his girl screams "daddy make the stupid boy leave" and I go "yeah, make me leave daddy" and he was like "come on kids, lets get out of here" and as they were walking away the guy tells me to learn some manners.

I see his daughter is holding a harry potter book in her hand I go "tell your daughter that dumbledore dies on page 606" and immediately this like 13 year old girl bursts into tears and soon after her older looking brother did too the dad was speechless and walked away.