@danielhayles-

And how would a bottom-feeding jazz musician from fucking NEW ZEALAND know anything about the music industry?

JAZZ- that means you’re going NOWHERE- EVER. You’ll never need either one… because you’ll never ever play a gig large enough to require either one! Especially in NZ!! HAHA!

And you’ll NEVER have your own backstage passes, either! Man- your overwhelming jealousy is palpable from HERE!!

Cable Page for The Rolling Stones?? LOL I was standing in front of 30,000 people who paid to see MY BACK! (While I was getting paid to be there!) Keith Richards bumped into me while doing a guitar solo. I got two of his guitar picks. Took a lot of photos, too.

And what do you know about Runners- besides nothing? I babysit rock stars. I get them to the gig on time. (Think that’s EASY?) I make sure they have “whatever” they need. I am a valuable commodity. I am a professional shopper. I have tour managers calling me months in advance to make sure I’LL be there for them. I’ve been on more tour busses than you’ve ever seen. And partied with REAL musicians and rock stars… not wannabe’s.

Fucking JAZZ musicians— ROFLMFAO!!! Lots of random notes and scales… ZZZZZZZZZZZ. Absolutely NO FUTURE in that crap!!!!!!!!!

and no money, either….

So- DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB! (I’m positive you have one).

LOSER.

@dieAntagonista-

Prince puts on a great show. But he’s a dick backstage. The RULE is- DON’T LOOK AT PRINCE. Seriously. We were all warned NOT to make eye contact with him!

Personally- I really liked Purple Rain. And I think he’s a genius- but he rides the narrow edge between genius and insanity. I had to haul his personal assistant around all day- man- you want to talk about a horrible gig!! Poor woman….

@dieAntagonista-

Yup- mean old Mr. Reality- that’s me. LOL

I think we all know that record label A&R reps are pieces of shit. What happened to The Beatles has happened to lots of great stars. It’s common place. Most demo’s end up in the garbage. You have 30 seconds to get their attention. That’s it. And that is why we have to listen to so much crap on the radio!

I’ve worked in the music industry for a LONG time- and one thing I know FOR SURE- there is no future in jazz. Sad- but true. Hey- I hope he makes it to “THE BIGS”. But, like I said- I NEVER work jazz shows. Because there aren’t any. And with the economy and so many tours cutting down on, well, EVERYTHING, the chances of ANYBODY making it big and going on tour are slim. You’d have to be in the country genre to think you have a chance to make it. (The largest music genre).

I own a three ring binder filled with guitar picks- they are in coin sleeves. I have HUNDREDS of them. And sticks? wow- I gave hundreds of them away. (To a chick I wanted to fuck….) I play guitar- not drums. All I kept was a Mick Fleetwood stick- used aluminum, a pair of new sticks from the original drummer for Pearl Jam, a new pair of sticks from Def Lepard, (that’s like two sets of sticks for a one armed drummer!), and a used pair from NEIL PEART. I’m going to frame the Peart sicks and hang them on my wall. Touched by the hand of god. Perhaps I should post a photo for you?

Herbie WHO? I thought he was dead. LOL $50K wow. You do know that that means the ACT gets $50K- not just him. That’s the cost of the performance. It cost $100K for Santana to play a birthday party for Paul Allen. (That’s no shit).

So, take that $50k+ Herbie makes and subtract the money everybody in band gets, his managers, record label, hotels, planes, per deim, etc… Herbie ain’t making DICK. Good thing he had that ONE HIT WONDER!! LMFAO The ASCAP money from that one song is probably what he’s living on.

15,000 people… and you weren’t the headlining act? Guess what? THEY DIDN’T COME TO SEE YOU! LMFAO!!! But you did perform in front of them. Tha’s definitely something. Congratulations. Did you get a lucritive recording contract? Of course not. I did notice that all your songs were “cover songs”… got anything original? Sent out any demo’s? Get any replies?

By the way- I met and shook hands with Quincy Jones at a Paul Allen affair at The King Dome. Nice guy- he went to high school with my mother. He asked her out! Garfield HS in Seattle. Same place Jimi Hendrix went. He totally rememberd my Mom. Called her by her nickname. (She was homecoming queen- aka- a hottie). Later that night, I sat in his limo and watched the new Janet Jackson video- which hadn’t been released yet.

Does anybody know if New Zealand is bigger than Rhode Island?!?! Congratulations on being on TV every week. I’m guessing it’s like our Public Access shows here. What are your ratings?

I sang “MEPHISTOPHOLIES” in Italian to a sold out crowd of 1000 when I was 12. (biggest venue around at the time). Boys Choir. With the local symphony, the local adult choir, and lead by Robert Shaw of the Vienese Boys Choir fame. And a famous tenor was Meph- I can’t remember his name.

“We are flames ever flying- in voices replying- of loves never dying- we sing and we wing…”