I really need to update this. We haven't left yet. The tour has been pushed back three times so far, much to the crew (and I assume band's) chagrin. Some things have been bearing heavy on my mind lately. Another friend of mine from Nebraska recently got hired on as a driver, and within the last week, he found some disparaging things on the internet about the manager who's running the band. Apparently a couple other bands who worked with her feel like they were screwed pretty hard, and the contract she came to them with from "Columbia" was a phony. She also apparently took $540 from them saying she was going to get their songs copyrighted, but when they checked up on it she had never done it. After a little nagging, I finally got a copy of my contract faxed to my parents, who immediately took it to a lawyer. He told us that it was a pretty crappy contract, and that the language was very ambiguous. He has a hard time telling who specifically is hiring me because in the beginning of the contract it says she is, but she signed it as "manager". It all just seems kind of fishy to me. ANOTHER thing that's been stressing me out is that I haven't been paid yet, when in my contract it says I was supposed to be on payroll as of May 2nd. We're going to be paid on debit/cash cards (since we're supposedly going to be on the road so much). I don't know if this is a common thing, but it's what I've been told. I guess my card was sent out yesterday, and she swears that we will all be paid by the 15th, which is our newest leaving date. The only reason I haven't told her to go fuck herself and got my old jobs back is because she hasn't given me any reason to think that she's scamming me. The only money I've been asked for was the $50 I paid for a background check, and it seems like she's going through a lot of effort for what would be very little pay-off. If I don't get paid on the 15th, though, it's going to be a different story.
p.s.- Apparently Emilio (?) got fired for some reason right after the May 2nd show.
Friday, June 6, 2008
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