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:	post by ShadowSD at 2011-03-19 20:18:39

Heh, I think I know who you're talking about.

Also, our drummer Casey is actually a lefty too although he sets up his kit righty.

I'm glad I got to smoke you and burnsy up with that stuff, nothing like it. Our friend Mark (the other dude that smoked with us) was so lit he was bouncing around during the last band like a hippie fest, my singer's like "what did you DO to him?", hahaha, the joy of being a bad influence.

New Ditty wasn't really my thing and they didn't seem to me as into what they were doing as the other bands, I do like Down-style southern stoner metal but that's not really how they came off to me, but I like the fact that they started with AIC's Rain When I Die which you don't expect to hear. They played that well and it's a good tune. Other than that the vocals were rough. But they did bring a bunch of people so that's cool.

The issue with the promotion company is that they appeared to pocket well over 50% of the door collected at the show (if what Sauriel and us got paid was any indication), as it appeared they payed bands per each person they brought either $0 or $2.50, depending on which they felt like - and with each person only considered brought by a band if they say the band's name at the door. The problem for me though wasn't that as much as the fact that all this was told to me by the promoter only at the END of the night, and despite us drawing a number of people, he told us we brought two who said our name and as a result weren't getting paid ANYTHING. If I had known that's how they were counting it instead of an even door split of course I would have put on our website, on this thread, on the e-mail we sent out to our mailing list, and told the people I called who attended "hey please say you came to see Suicide Dream" - but the promotion company waited until the end of the show to tell us anything so we would be screwed over.

Now, to the IMMENSE CREDIT of Jon and the rest of Sauriel, they took care of us because we drove a combined ten hours round trip between the three of our vehicles, and out of respect to them and their ability to continue working with this company if they wish I didn't confront the promoter any further - but the guy's attitude towards us and bewildered expectations that we already knew everything without ever calling or e-mailing us any of the information was beyond dickish. The level of snide frat boyish condescension is not the kind of attitude any bands should have to work with.

That was really the attitude from them all night: "oh didn't you know before what I just told you", like when I brought the keyboard onstage and the soundguy said "What, no, I always tell keyboardists to bring an amp", as if I missed a memo. I also heard complaints from a few bandmembers/crew about the promotion company's soundcrew, that they were acting like dicks to bands - and I have a certain amount of sympathy for the need of a soundguy to move a show along, since I've been there plenty of times, but it's unusual for me to play a show and hear so many complaints from people about a sound crew's attitude, so that kind of says something.

The soundguy also refused to put any guitar through the monitors when our singer asked, refused to put any reverb on her voice when she asked, and I ended up having to put my keyboard through my guitar amp for us to save time and not have any of our set cut.

Then there's the misspelled name on the flyer (on at least two versions that were created if not more), the order that wasn't solidified until the night before, and the sense looking back that they didn't even bother to take five seconds when they added us to the show to see who we were, what we've done, and or even where we come from, as evidenced by this part of the conversation:

"You drove four hours round trip?! Where are you guys from?!"

"CT"

"Oh, wow, CT huh?"

"Yeah"

*shrugs shoulders* "Sorry." (drenched in sarcasm)

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