Reply #100: A record producer (scumbag) had a "concert"

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to announce the relaese of a single done by a guy who worked in a local factory that had just shut down.
The producer invited a lot of people from the area radio, media and arts crowd and provided free food and drink, along with sample copies of the guy's record, while the poor guy performed the sone he wrote and recorded.
The out-of-work-guy of course was paying all the bills for this, including renting the hall and paying the promoter for his services.
The song was terrible, as was the guys singing, and it immediately sank, leaving the guy out of work and broke, and the promoter looking for the next "star".

I had no idea what I was going to when I went to this terrible thing, and I was very embarased and left almost immediately.

I was a musician at one time, and I am still owed for a job my band played in 1964, and I really have no use for promoters/producers, etc.

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