Well, the kid's still up & I'm in no better humor, so here's more.
Steve, have you never heard, "No good deed goes unpunished."?
Almost every time I've done favors it's taken for granted that this should be the norm.
Land speculators: We have across the street from the studio a home on which stands the oldest largest oak in the metro Atlanta area, & an empty lot which a developer bought & has spent the last two years trying to bypass the tree ordinance laws through lawsuits, bribes, & trying to kill the tree by illeagally cutting off several limbs, spiking it, & finally pouring acid on the base of the tree. This stopped when I gave the people who own the land the tree is on a survielance camera they mounted on their house with spot lights trained on the tree. We've sponsored 3 benefits so far to try to help them pay their over 40 grand in legal expenses.
People who break things in the studio & don't tell any one. This includes the intern who during a late night session some how burned a hole in the floor of the main tracking room. He pulled a rug over the burned spot, set the alarm, locked up & left. Not a word to any one. I came in that morning to overwhelming smoke & went nuts trying to find where the fire was.
I'm not an ogre about this, last week an intern dropped a U47. He told me immediately. All I told him was everybody's gonna drop something sooner or later & at least he got his first time over with, don't worry about it.
The clients who book full days & want lunch breaks to be off the clock. This is just fine until it hits the point where they come in an hour late, work for 3 hours, & then want to take a 2 hour lunch break.
Clients that only book 3 to 4 hours once a week, but call multiple times a day to talk about what they want to do during the next session.
The singer who brought in great musicians from New York, started the session several hours late,(around 2:00 AM) & recorded roughly 14 hours straight & then at the end of the session when I told her the difference between her deposit & the balance due unashamedly informed me, "I aint got no money!". She later passed me a bad check & then took off for Chicago for 3 months. Finally the drummer on the session who had recommended me to this artist heard what was going on & paid me what she owed. (There are some good people in this business.)
New rule, no more church jobs. The last three that have booked, all three I had to change family plans, or go back into the studio because they said it was an emergency & this had to get done that day, they pulled a no show. Three different churches. No show, no call, no nothing.
Well, my wife's up now, she's got the bug too, but this means I can get to bed.
Marty
