Chief Engineer Scott wrote:lol YOU are reading into it.
But that's fine, I can see that you think you always have things under control even though you don't really do much at all, sans management.
I'd be careful because your giant brain may not fit through the door frame. Oh well all push to get it through but I don't know.
Try not to tell me what I think. That just illustrates your need for control and the illusion thereof.
In short, you talk a lot but what is it that you really do besides count money and play the part of the greedy manager>?
I know you don't double as security, that much is plain.
LOL And I think you may be campaigning vs yourself, your assumptions are as off as your act.
You could always get some giant snakes for the act, well unless you are related to them.
Yeah, I have my own security, and yes some of them are girls, big biker chicks and that is not b.s. My requirements are that they must have a felony record at least, and preferrably have done prison time. Why should I get my hands dirty playing handball with dirtbags like you, when I can allow the underlings to have some fun. These girls have stabbed, run contraband, ran illegals, one even has a manslaughter rap over her head. Now, where are these girls going to find legitimate work?? Who is going to hire them???
Yes, I'm arrogant, pompous, truculent, conceited, narcississtic as all hell , and those are my good qualities. The musician girls have their issues and baggage too. So, what is so damn wrong, what has you so damn hateful that you are so anti-girl musician and all girl band. If they go to the strip bar, they get the pimps and meth dealers. They work for us, they stay out of trouble for the most part. Plus, their parole/probation officers think its a noble concept too.
See, you are coming at this from an employee, not the employer. I have never twanged or banged or picked up an axe in my life. The only vocals I do is drunk kareoke nite. But I know the demographics, who has money, where they go and what type of music they want to listen to---what they listened to when they had full heads of hair, decent looks and no pot bellies.
Greedy???? You got some nerve. Your fifth grade level "color by numbers " paint set just arrived. The musicians want or pay for NOTHING. Studio time, promotions, flyers, radio, cable and newsprint ads are all paid for by me. They have run of my house and back yard and garage for practice. They bring me the receipts for gas/travel--any roadwork lodging is all paid for by?????? Me.
Know what a cash payroll is??? That means I pay their taxes out of my end and what they agreed to be paid, they get in full and in cash. So, take that greedy swipe and wipe your sloppy ass with it. Regarding reading your mind, that takes all of about five seconds, so don't flatter yourself. If you are the employee and I am taking the risk of your success, you will do exactly what I say, when I say it or you can miseltoe yourself underneath that red sign that says E-X-I-T.
Yes, I am an absolute and total control freak. They wear what I tell them to wear, they perform the tuneage I give them to learn, and they interact and relate with the audience the way I tell them to. My money, my bat and ball, my rules. What is so hard to comprehend?? You don't like my act because you don't like to be told what to do. If you ever held or currently have a steady job, I wonder how you take orders from your boss. There is one chief--me and the rest are Indians.
I know what sells and what the 40-65 crowd wants as that is where the money is today---what's left of it. Here you thought I was a musician or some kind of music maker or composer??? Hardly. They are the ying and I am their yang. They understand it and even like it. And if you don't like old fashioned, old style, british beer house rock-n-roll, country rock, rockabilly, swing and all the other offshoots, even some Ludwig Van once in a while, then go compose your own noise and find a group of five who can tolerate it.