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Presents
The Cost of Doing Business!
As promised, here is an idea of how much it costs us to Produce a Show!
Please Note! Nothing contained herein is meant to be an offer or bid for services to anyone by anyone. Service Vendor costs include a lot of variables & are generally customized on a show by show basis! All the below is intended to do is give you ideas on which to formulate thoughts from!
Not counting all the incidentals which added up to $2,000+ pursuant to everything from recruiting Bands, finding a site, aerial photographs, trips back and forth to the county, phone bills galore and the fact that this idiot author (Yours Truly) decided to make 3,000 customized hand-made laminated passes at an average cost $0.33 per (after the initial set cost involved with buying the laminator, laminate, ink, card stock & cutter), the following are just some of the costs associated with Producing our first event, TRRRU™!
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ITEMIZATION!
| The Duran Diva-Fronted her big brother (Me) the money for the Sound Equipment Rental ($648.00 + $175.77) as well as plane tickets for Costa-Monster World of Metal ($418.96 & $9.75*) & Ryan-President of Metal Mayhem Music ($357.00 + $9.75*). And 12% Interest plus gratuity of appreciation for the loan manifested
in an expense paid in full of:
*Insurance
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$ 1,700.00 |
| The Camaray-Management was insistent so I couldn't help but accept their generous offer. 50 FULL EVENT PASSES (4-day passes) valued at $45.00 each to us, for the cost of 25 rooms for 4 days. Plus rooms whenever else I needed them for the year. Just leave $5.00 for the Maid when you check-out. Because of Bands trashing, not leaving their $5.00 and the Motel's generous assistance with getting the stage built when I wasn't there I sent them an additional $150.00: (50 x $45.00 = $2,250.00) + $150.00 =
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$ 2,400.00 |
| Carter Excavation-The original bill came in at $4,900. for the porta-potties. The Land-Owners were supposed to pay this bill, but as some of the residence of Oroville would scream in my face, I'm Stupid because I didn't want to believe the Land Owners ripped me off... BIG TIME! This just 1 bill they ran out on but I have my
integrity & made arrangements to pay it. Mike Chapman at Carter is cool & reduced the bill to $1,900.00. I sent him $1,950.00
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$ 1,950.00 |
| Upper Valley Disposal-Another Land Owner bill that they bailed on. Can't pass the Health Inspection with out. With the help of our friends in Loomis the dumpster was fronted, to me... not the Land Owners. I in turn fronted to them. They stiffed me but that doesn't give me the right to stiff those who fronted to
me. I think you can dig it!
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$ 354.88 |
| Loomis Fire Department-THANX! SERIOUS PROMOTERS ONLY-They'd love your business! What they did for us is immeasurable... and I was the only customer in the ER Tent... likely nervous exhaustion and homicidal tendencies as a very serious jittering disorder. In the end, they let me slide... I think I left
$20.00 behind at the most. I eventually sent them a check based on some weird formula going through my head at the time as well as tickets to TRHHB™ for which The Fire Commissioner, his wife, their oldest son & his girlfriend along with the Mayor & his daughter did show!
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$ 345.12 |
| J & S Services-Because you gotta have power. They're Contractors on the US/Canadian Border project and have all the power we ever needed. And yet another Land Owner contracted responsibility not just I, but WE as a Family & business entity ate to keep our own integrity in tact.
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$ 225.00 |
| United Rental-Generators need cables and junction boxes to get the power to the equipment. I can't find the receipts on this for the life of me but on one visit alone I dumped $185.00. Yet another Land Owner contracted responsibility we got stuck with.
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$ 185.00 |
| Chuck Wilder-Chuck's Band opened for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for 4 years, zig zagging all over the place no doubt. And they still play places like the Apple Blossom Festival in WA State. Despite appearing to be a pure hammer-head, Chuck was the only one locally that had the presence of mind in my initial trip up there to
help pull this show to their community. Chuck rallied the Local Troops, called in favors, borrowed money in my name but in the end Gold Digger Apples™ provided a huge stage base with a drum stage on top, Oroville Building Supply fronted the plywood and screws/nails to attach it, Jim used his
trailer to bring in the crates, Bryce was a help from building the stage to loading the toilets while knee deep in water in the end. And Chuck made a whole $10.00 or so for himself. The rest went to satisfy his contributing friends. And yet the Bands in particular as well as some locals treated him with contempt. Total out to Chuck in cash
& checks not otherwise accounted for herein:
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$ 210.00 |
| Oroville Building Supply-That plywood was "fronted", not free. And appreciated!
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$ 200.00 |
| Okanogan Health Department-We reduced the crowd size on our permit as to reduce the cost (a great call if you were there)!
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$ 150.00 |
| Site Reviews & Temporary Use Permits: Because we were on Reservation land separate from the reservation we we subject to regulations from all sides. We needed a Site Review which I remember as $15.00 as well as a Temporary Use Permit-both from the County. And we needed what is commonly referred to as a Pow-Wow
Permit for another $25.00: Just important details that have their share of expenses... all adding up:
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$ 65.00 |
| Dustin-For filming the first 24-hours... he bailed, I understood, wished I could've joined him. I sent him the cash he wanted plus a decent tip and he sent me the video-tapes! THANX!
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$ 100.00 |
| ABSOLUTE MINIMUM SUB-TOTAL: |
$ 7,885.00 |
This is a Good Comparison to the above as we went Indoors!
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ITEMIZATION!
| The Metropolitan Performing Arts Center a.k.a. "The MET"-The House Arlo Guthrie goes out of his way to play and Garth Brooks filmed a video in... the Absolute Best House available to us & definitely a step-up from the Cow Field (depending on your point of view &/or mood)!
The House got us for $1,040.00 plus 10% of the Merchandise ($19.30):
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$ 1,059.30 |
| Starplex Corporation d/b/a Crowd Management Services-This the Crew that works for The House of Blues & The Gorge among many other venues.
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$ 600.00 |
| Motorbark Sound & Lighting Company-INCREDIBLE!!! As a favor as well as for many good & valuable considerations including being mentioned in 300 TV commercials they came in Super Low!
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$ 600.00 |
| Black Coffee Recording®-Because we are a Recording Company as well as a Concert Production Company and are in the middle of making a Rockumentary. Great work guys!
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$ 500.00 |
| Dave Butler-This guy has nerves of steel, hangs out of helicopters over NY just to get that "SHOT". He seems to hang-out on Treasure Island shooting Motocrosses for ESPN!!! So, on Don Miller/Publicist-Manager of Blind Fury's recommendation we commissioned him to film for us to. Can't have a Rockumentary without
the film. Break-Down:$112.00 for tapes, $114.50 for airfare, $450.00 (with $50.00 owing because I insist) for actual work & more for hotel (Nikki has the receipt but it is fair to say it is over $100.00) equates to no less than:
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$ 776.50 |
| Marshal Entertainment Insurance-Welcome to the next level, $1mm Bonds! I've linked this to Matt Manning at All-State as to keep referral burn-out down while providing some business for our friend who also happens to be the Director of Security for Crowd Management Services!!!
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$ 580.00 |
| Printer, Paper & Ink-Hence Posters-We have learned from our mistakes, bought a poster size printer and ran no less than 500 Full Color 11" x 17" (Tabloid sized) posters... 300+ of which The Met paid their guy $14.00 an hour to post all over Spokane... THANX MET! The number provided is from just 1 receipt, there were many more for ink, paper, packaging, posting
and actually running down to the Post-Office in the 1st place.
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$ 793.00 |
| The Inlander-The Local Music Paper of Spokane... Advertisement: Correct me if I'm wrong Inlander as I don't have my receipts in front of me but one ad was for approximately $187.50 and the other was for no less than $526.00?
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$ 713.50 |
| The Trips: Not counting the Hotel rooms we had to pay to go over there a couple of times, once to watch Geoff Tate as a training exercise (no shit)... THANX MICHAEL! In glancing through my check book I can easily see where I took out no less than $400.00 for these trips. And mind you, none of which counts that
non-deductible ticket I received outside of Ritzville for drag racing without proper tabs just minutes outside of Spokane (another $355.00... but was reduced as the Tab thing was an honest mistake... I own 4 Mopars of the same year-two of each make)
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$ 400.00 |
| The Bands: Each received a $250.00 Advance and $250.00 additional after the show. $500.00 each. The biggest conduct problem by for was the slowest to get paid the remainder. We lost big time so it took some time but everyone else except Dave and the one Band was Paid in Full BEFORE Christmas (less than 60 Days).
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$ 1,500.00 |
| ABSOLUTE MINIMUM SUB-TOTAL: |
$ 7,422.30 |
I could easily add up postage, phone bills, the TicketsWest fees, Local Taxes and many more posters & flyers which I mailed to CRUSHBONE™ & who came through for us as the Home Town Boys despite not being able to play. All would push our numbers closer to $8,000.00 on this individual production alone.
And I must absolutely acknowledge Donald L. Miller Jr./Manager-Publicist and the Blind Fury™ Team et al. Out of the measly 31 tickets sold, they bought 18 (we went up against DIO at the Box Office, for the same price... another very expensive lesson). FURTHERMORE, Don pulled strings, struck keys & fiddled with knobs until he scored 300 TV commercial Spots on stations like F/X; F/X2; TNN; MTV; VH1 & ESPN with Winter Sport Ski Shop as the Sponsor. $11,025.00 in Retail Value worth of TV Commercials, all he asked from each Band was some CD's & T's for the Sponsor to give away & $150.00 for production costs. And to think SOME Band members in the other camps were bitching to some degree or another about their investment in those commercials.
Take it with a grain of salt but here is the Investment Summary:
INVESTED: TRRRU ($7,885.00) + TRHHB ($7,422.3) = $ 15,307.30 Minimum Invested in 2002: From memory I kept saying $7,500.00 a Show when the Absolute Minimum Average Investment Per Show is actually $7,653.65:
CASH RETURNED: TRRRU ($405.00 - $60.00 I already had in my pocket = $345.00) + TRHHB ($348.00 + some change) = $693.00: (*Does not include $108.00 in Poster Sales at TRHHB)
RETURN ($693.00) - INVESTED ($15,307.30) = $14,614.30 Absolute Minimum Loss if you think only in numbers! Then again, I could be wrong as I'm not doing this with a calculator but in my head for the most part and my math sucks!
BROSFAP™ put it to us. "Where do you (we) want to be in 6 months?"
Let's call it New Years!
1). Open own club in Portland and turning enough cash so that we can wake up on New Year's Day and head to Up-State New York to open our 2nd club, hence providing the Bands National Access like Phil Graham did.
2). Finish filming and start the editing process for A Pair of Rock Hard Balls™. The Met said we may have Our World Release there.
3). I've already discussed it with some Bands. Please do NOT be offended if it is NOT your Band, there's reasons for everything. Via Our Portland facility and with Tim of Portland Musicians' help we hope to open the club early & make enough cash to fly in certain Bands from across Our Country to close out A Pair of Rock Hard Balls™.
4). We are going to burn our 1st Compilation and with the Licensor's o.k.'s, send a bunch to Our Allied Forces with an emphasis on Our Troops in the Gulf. FURTHERMORE, that Compilation is targeted as part of a Promo Pack we're going to send out in search of MAJOR Sponsorship.
5). By that time it is our hope that all of you will be doing at least some of your shopping at The Shop That ROX!™ pursuant to helping us stack cash so that we may continue to provide opportunities for Unsigned Artist.
6). With all things rolling and hopefully a MAJOR Sponsor or two, we truly hope to have a small but National Concert Tour Schedule ready. We have particular cities targeted but a lot will depend on the purchasing drive as tracked via The Shop That ROX!™
7). It is already on the table, at the end of the 2004 Tour we're planning to open clubs in 5 target cities. The Successes & Failures of the 2004 Tour will determine if, when & where!
GTO of NY asked if we needed help. I told him "Damn Right we need help!"
Beyond all the great advice we are reciving the wild but workable ideas and what not, we need your personal purchasing power as well as your ability to refer purchasing power to us. Although painful looking and still not ready yet, by Fall The Shop That ROX!™ will going full bore and unlike other stores you can count on your purchasing power going back into Rock & Roll!
We need you to help spread the word, there is genuine opportunity, especially for those Unsigned Artist who appreciate it enough to surround themselves with equally grateful Artists-Real People!
Bands as well as members thereof come & go and with few exceptions most never see a $500.00 pay night, much less the opportunity to appear in a professionally audio & video taped show, in a Rockumentary... partly filmed in the same House Garth Brooks shot a video in. We did this for the Bands out of our own pockets & when one particular Contractors ran out on the bills we dumped our $269,999.00 home in the Burbs, moved into The Haney Place & lived in a small portion of HELL pursuant to paying all the bills associated with our Productions while preserving, actually increasing our integrity.
Look at the numbers above as well as base examples of the Master Licenses we offer. If you have patience for this Dreamer who is rarely in the "NOW!", know how to and are willing to pitch in with your Team to help Our Team bring all the Teams of Our World together then maybe we can work together!
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