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Disciple
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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject: If you know people in the music biz, forward this info |
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My buddy Roberto came back from a South American tour with Incantation and well...read for yourself:
| Quote: | Hails,
I'm back home finally after completeing the most stressfull tour I've been on during my 29 years of life.
INCANTATION's "Primordial Domination Southamerican" tour has come to an end after MANY MANY problems, stress, fights, arguments etc.
It must be made public to the world that the promoter in charge of booking this Southamercian tour for INCANTATION is a fucking RIP-OFF and CON ARTIST, his name is JAVIER PUENTES of Bogota , Colombia and his production agency (I would call it a theft agency) is called "Catherdral Rock Productions"
Javier Puentes owes INCANTATION $4600 dollars in plane tickets and band fees. Let it be known that 2 days before starting the tour This asshole tried to cancel everything, INCANTATION re-negotiated and we purchased 3 outta 4 plane tickets from USA to Colombia and from Chile to USA, having Javier Puentes (the promoter) priomised us the return of this money from all the attendance of the Bogota show. Little did we know (and soon found out) that Javier Puentes had previously recieved down deposits from Lima (Peru, $3200) and from La Paz ($700) and Santa Cruz ($600) (Bolivia). Javier Puentes chardes these promoters and never used the cash to purchase our flights from USA / Mexico to Southamerica.
We played in Bogota and after that thigns got very very shady as Puentes started coming up with dozens of excuses regarding the Bogota show and the money we were supposed to recieve. That night ended and we had to hit the road overnight to travel to Pereira, Colombia. After the Pereira show, Me and John McEntee had agreed to meet at the hotel room with Javier Puentes to settle the money situation because he was already owing the band over $4000 dollars. He never showed up and left us at the hotel. The enxt morning a friend of his left a message for ME at the reception , an hand written note sayin " Do not worry Javier is in Pereira and will pick you guys up tomorrow" !!!! He did not leave an address or a phone number where we coudl reach him and we were sitting in a hotel in the middle of Colombia with out a SINGLE PENNY!!!
To our luck, at the Pereira show we met Ricardo Gutierrez from BRUTALIZED RECORDS. He met us at the hotel the enxt day to have lunch with him, and one of his friedns told us how to find Javier Puentes , so we set off on a man hunt to downtown and found Puentes in a small hotel in the middle of downtown Pereira, hiding from us.
At this point we were FORCED to threaten him verbally and physically. All we got from him at this point was $150 dollars, we could not use John's credit card for expenses becasue it was up to the limits with the plane tickets. He promised us AGAIn that as soon as we got back to Bogota hw had $2000 dollars sitting at home and that he would give us that money. Off course as soon as we got to Bogota, we did not recieve a dime. All we could do is wait because we NEEDED our plane tickets from Colombia to Peru, at this point all we wanted was to get out of Colombia AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
In the end and after MANY MANY phone discussions etc, we met him at the airport in Bogota and he purchased ONLY 3 tickets to Peru for the band, I was forced to stay in Colombia one more day. Javier Zarate from ICARUS MUSIC (Peruvian promoter) helped us out by purchasing MY flight from Bogota to Lima to help us get out of Colombia. In the mean time, we were kindly assisted and helped out by Nelson Varela of SYLPHORIUM RECORDS, who helped us get to the airport and gave me shelter in hs house for 1 whole day and took me sight seeing and drinking in Bogota.
When we got to Peru, things got WAY BETTER, then in Bolovia things got a bit difficult again with one of the promoters, and very short on cash once again.
By the end of the Bolivian dates our hope of rescuing the tour were COMPLETLEY GONE, but once we got to Chile, everything got a bit better.
SO ...I would like to send a blasphemous HAILS and THANK YOU to the following individuals who helped Incancation make it through this VERY PROBLEMATIC and So to say , sort of "successful":
in Bogota, Colombia:
- Carolina and Julio
- Nelson Varela at SYLPHORIUM RECORDS and Daisy
in Pereira, Colombia:
- Ricardo Guiterrez at BRUTALIZED RECORDS ,
- Fabian (his friend)
- Robinson and everyone at the bar in Pereira
- Hector and Luciferian
in Lima, Peru:
- Javier , Carlos & Edison Zarate at ICARUS MUSIC & crew
- Veronica for all the assitance during the show
- Bulldozer bodyguards
in La Serena/Coquimbo, Chile:
- Felix Carvajal and Don Jose
in Santiago de Chile:
- Jose Cox , Cesar Wallace (Rock Hard Magazine), Eduardo (driver) & crew
- Roberto Guiņez and Carolina at ARSENAL OF GLORY RECS / Bloody Axe Metal store.
To you I raise the chalice of death and become one with the dark!!!
TO THE DEATH!
Roberto Lizarraga.
P.S. DEATH TO JAVIER PUENTES AND CATHEDRAL ROCK PRODS. IN BOGOTA!! PAY ME BACK OUR $4600 dollars ASSHOLE!!!! FUCK YOU ETERNALLY!!!!!!! |
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RevelationNo9
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Pathetic all the way around. 
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Detox
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And this happens almost every time that some band come to South America to do a tour  |
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