I had the chance to do a really nice gig but it fell through. There's this promoter who was looking to have this party on December 30th in a club called CIC in Orange, NJ. He was planning on having Colonel Abrams come and sing at the party. He needed a DJ to come and play for the party. I was in a place where he asked my friend could he do the gig? My friend said he had tyo check to see if he was booked or not. I decided to let the promoter know that if my friend couldn't do it we could possibly do it.
I gave the promoter my card and on Friday he called me to ask me about doing the gig. He gave me Colonel Abrams number for me to call him to find out what he would need to be able to do the gig. I called him a couple of hours later to find all he would need to come and sing at the party. He said a couple of monitors and a good cordless mic. The party was to be about the DJ playing all old school house music.
For those who are asking who is Colonel Abrams? He's a very great singer who was popular in the 80's to the early 90's. He was famous for house music. He recorded such songs as Trapped which went to number 1. Then there was Music Is The Answer, Speculation and many others. I can't think of them all right now.
He did my favorite song of all times. I used to go to the club just to hear this song because it never was put out on a record. If I heard that song any where including on the street I would stop whatever I was doing and start dancing. To this day it's still my favorite and I'm talking well over 25 years later. The song is called Release The Tension. If you don't know the song you can look it up on Youtube and you can hear it.
So I talked to the promoter later on and we were supposed to meet he guy this past Friday at the club at 10pm to check the place out to see how we would do the gig and what we needed to bring. Probably just 2 of the powered speakers, a mixing board to plug the speakers into which the board would be hooked into the clubs system, laptop, mic and simply just hook everything up to the clubs system. Not sure how things would have been done but that was the reason for going to the club and to discuss the details about the event including how much we would get paid to do the event.
Please keep in mid like I said the gig fell through. We got their to the club and I called the promoter. He said he wasn't coming. He tells me there was a problem and what it was. He said the owner of the club was charging him $400.00 to rent the club out that night. He said he was prepared to give the owner a $200.00 deposit to hold the spot for that date.
Now on to the problem. He said that Colonel Abrams wanted $2,000.00 to come and sing at the party. He had to be out of his damn mind. So the promoter who has done many different things in the past meaning he's no stranger to promoting events asked me what did I think he should do? Considering how little time he had from now to then to promote the event and this guy wanting 2k for him to scrap the party. It would have been a great event to do for us considering who the singer was to be. That would have some great publicity for us but that sounded like a disaster waiting to happen. That's just too much to pay this guy to come and sing at a club in Orange, NJ. He's old now. The only people that would know him are the people who used to go to the clubs way back then. Now how many of those people even go out any more if they are even still alive today.
So I said don't do it. It hurt my heart to tell him don't do it because it would have been a great opportunity for us to shine but just not worth the risk of taking a chance this party would work or not considering we're talking only 3 weeks to promote this party and Christmas being right around the corner.
So we won't be doing this one but since the promoter knows me and I'm a friend of the other DJ he said he's got other shows lined up and he will be using us in the future. Some singers egos are just to big for their own good. To end it I checked online to see if he had any dates lined up in the future to sing some where and nothing came up. I could possibly see him getting 1k to come and do the party but certainly not 2k. That's rediculous for him to think he could come to a club in Orange, NJ and expect to get paid 2k. We're not talking NYC which he did a gig with some other stars from back in the day that was announced all over WBLS with a very well know DJ. He simply must have had a flash back to when he was the s*** way back then.
Now there is Singer Kenny Bobien who did the song You Are My Friend which I'm sure you've all either heard or have in your library. He's done such other big hits like Gave Me Love, I Shall Not Be Moved and Grateful. He gets any where between $750.00 to 1k to do a show in a club setting. I don't know how Colonel Abrams thinks he deserves more then him. Young and old knows Kenny and will come to hear him sing. Those young people won't hardly know who the Colonel is. The just might know him from their mother and fathers playing his music back in the day. Sorry this post went so long but i just had to tell this story. I've got to get dressed to leave out. I have a very busy day this Sunday.
I gave the promoter my card and on Friday he called me to ask me about doing the gig. He gave me Colonel Abrams number for me to call him to find out what he would need to be able to do the gig. I called him a couple of hours later to find all he would need to come and sing at the party. He said a couple of monitors and a good cordless mic. The party was to be about the DJ playing all old school house music.
For those who are asking who is Colonel Abrams? He's a very great singer who was popular in the 80's to the early 90's. He was famous for house music. He recorded such songs as Trapped which went to number 1. Then there was Music Is The Answer, Speculation and many others. I can't think of them all right now.
He did my favorite song of all times. I used to go to the club just to hear this song because it never was put out on a record. If I heard that song any where including on the street I would stop whatever I was doing and start dancing. To this day it's still my favorite and I'm talking well over 25 years later. The song is called Release The Tension. If you don't know the song you can look it up on Youtube and you can hear it.
So I talked to the promoter later on and we were supposed to meet he guy this past Friday at the club at 10pm to check the place out to see how we would do the gig and what we needed to bring. Probably just 2 of the powered speakers, a mixing board to plug the speakers into which the board would be hooked into the clubs system, laptop, mic and simply just hook everything up to the clubs system. Not sure how things would have been done but that was the reason for going to the club and to discuss the details about the event including how much we would get paid to do the event.
Please keep in mid like I said the gig fell through. We got their to the club and I called the promoter. He said he wasn't coming. He tells me there was a problem and what it was. He said the owner of the club was charging him $400.00 to rent the club out that night. He said he was prepared to give the owner a $200.00 deposit to hold the spot for that date.
Now on to the problem. He said that Colonel Abrams wanted $2,000.00 to come and sing at the party. He had to be out of his damn mind. So the promoter who has done many different things in the past meaning he's no stranger to promoting events asked me what did I think he should do? Considering how little time he had from now to then to promote the event and this guy wanting 2k for him to scrap the party. It would have been a great event to do for us considering who the singer was to be. That would have some great publicity for us but that sounded like a disaster waiting to happen. That's just too much to pay this guy to come and sing at a club in Orange, NJ. He's old now. The only people that would know him are the people who used to go to the clubs way back then. Now how many of those people even go out any more if they are even still alive today.
So I said don't do it. It hurt my heart to tell him don't do it because it would have been a great opportunity for us to shine but just not worth the risk of taking a chance this party would work or not considering we're talking only 3 weeks to promote this party and Christmas being right around the corner.
So we won't be doing this one but since the promoter knows me and I'm a friend of the other DJ he said he's got other shows lined up and he will be using us in the future. Some singers egos are just to big for their own good. To end it I checked online to see if he had any dates lined up in the future to sing some where and nothing came up. I could possibly see him getting 1k to come and do the party but certainly not 2k. That's rediculous for him to think he could come to a club in Orange, NJ and expect to get paid 2k. We're not talking NYC which he did a gig with some other stars from back in the day that was announced all over WBLS with a very well know DJ. He simply must have had a flash back to when he was the s*** way back then.
Now there is Singer Kenny Bobien who did the song You Are My Friend which I'm sure you've all either heard or have in your library. He's done such other big hits like Gave Me Love, I Shall Not Be Moved and Grateful. He gets any where between $750.00 to 1k to do a show in a club setting. I don't know how Colonel Abrams thinks he deserves more then him. Young and old knows Kenny and will come to hear him sing. Those young people won't hardly know who the Colonel is. The just might know him from their mother and fathers playing his music back in the day. Sorry this post went so long but i just had to tell this story. I've got to get dressed to leave out. I have a very busy day this Sunday.
