rumbolt said:
I am responding to your comment because I do take exception to your comment and I am tired of the negative retoric. If we are truly in this industry as kj then wouldn't it make sense to work together to help improve our craft and how it is supposed to be if the kjs (let's not get our opinions of the manus play into this) would just play by the rules. I have a career (my primary job) in this industry and yes the suits are an impotrant part of helping right the wrongs that are happining against the Legal KJ working there a##es off traveling the high road. I don't think you........ I know you don't have a real clue about this industry since all you ever seem to do is bash anything that can work to the positive for All of us. (In my former life in sales (25+ years), I have several industry awards for outstanding sales leadership, and been on several trips as a "Presidents Club" member so my sales experience has a proven track record and I do know how to close and ask for the order but I don't know it all and continue to learn every day) Call on 10 bars here and all you hear is "$75" is all they need to pay for karaoke. Try to raise the bar and they don't care about what you will "do" for them. How piracy can affect them (there is no such thing and besides as they say "I am covered by ASCAP") . How your sound system is far superior to their current karaoke "host's" walmart setup (I am not kidding in one instance and this venue could really afford so much more) (one example - possible pirate with 120,000 songs that lives in a trailer out behind the bar and hasn't got a pot to pee in) and has been in and out of jail for non-payment of child support but "pays for all his karaoke" (yea right) on the internet because he is using the bars wifi. Are you for real? If I get banned for calling you out, so be it.
With all due respect -
since when is begging bar owners to employ you called "sales?"
How is this any different than the kid applying for dishwahser? Do you even understand the fundamanetal business that the type of Nightclub and Bar you are approaching is in? It's
food and beverage - and your litany of demands doesn't address that point at all.
What a pathetic picture you are painting. You're
not offering the bar owner anything he doesn't
already have. The bar is
already an entertainment establishment - you just want to be the ring master? Where's the value in that
Mr President's club? It's no wonder you can be replaced by a $75 hack.
Newsflash: there's no shortage of people looking for space to
employ their presumed "talents." (Just check out the audition line at American Idol.)
This is the base problem: People low on substance and high on expectation who think they are being overlooked for lack of a few "rules" or "standards."
This is not a card game where you sit there and wait for the right card to be dealt for you. Piracy is not an obstacle - it's an excuse for under-achievers. You succeed in spite of it and when you
fail, it's because of what you
failed to do. Music, gear and a desire to perform does not make you valuable.
Stop walking in the door with a list of "certified" songs and gear. Show them a certified
head count with a list of proven successes and a mailing list of patrons who follow you wherever you play.