There's this venue in Baltimore that has an outside load in. 25 metal steps. I charge $10/step for load-ins like this and this client paid the extra $250.
OK, so far, no problem. The gig was in the middle of February. During the gig the temperature took a serious nose dive and it started raining.
You got it, the steps are now covered with ice.
Well, the solution is pretty simple to me, we load out through the front but the owner won't hear of it, we gotta go out the back. I told him that I'm not taking a chance on the steps and he either had to let us load out through the front or he had to get the steps cleared. The man was a real Richard Cranium and insisted that this was not his problem. I had my wife bring the truck around front and then called the police.
I explained the situation to the officer and he had a conversation with the owner.
We loaded out through the front. The owner told me I'd never work there again. I told him that I didn't care because I didn't want to work there again. They got black listed and I've steered many an event from them.
