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05:44 AM on 11/18/09 
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Originally Posted by splitsecondView This Post
Haha, we got a little revenge in for all the bands that Gorilla has ripped off. One of their promoters emailed me saying they knew we were an established band in Tucson (we are, but not really) and they needed a headliner for a show. So I negotiated $5 per ticket sold at no minimum and we cleaned up. I think we may have sold 50 tickets or so, and she flipped her shit and lied to the venue and told them we promised her a minimum of 200 tickets sold. She definitely lost money that night.

Hahahahah, awesome. My friend's band played a show with them, and actually sold like 200 tickets, but then he told the promoter they wouldn't play the show at all unless they got half the ticket money. They ended up making like 500 dollars or something, haha.
11:43 AM on 11/18/09 
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Originally Posted by turncoat93View This Post
i understand selling tickets for opening slots on major bills, but the whole sell tickets to a battle of the bands with 15 other local bands makes no sense to me.
we have been able to sell 30-50 tickets to shows with bands like the Misfits, The Subhumans, Teenage Bottlerocket, World/Inferno Friendship Society, and the productivity of that makes sense to me, but having to sell that amount of tickets to a show NO ONE cares about is nearly impossible and is a scam. its a huge problem in our local scene down here in Pittsburgh

Wow. My friend's band had to sell 200 tickets to play with the Misfits @ Starland.
02:34 PM on 11/18/09 
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I wrote an essay about this.
03:35 PM on 11/19/09 
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07:42 AM on 11/20/09 
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Originally Posted by concernedparentView This Post
I wrote an essay about this.

link to it, i'd read it



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