I'm not privvy to all the ins and outs and what have yous of the various scenes, but I have heard this from enough people that there's no way they're all just making it up. I also had a friend who this happened to, not exactly a parallel to Juan but just letting you know, yes it definitely does happen.
Promoters can be sketchy sometimes. Could be miscommunication, genuine delusion, or any other number of honest mistakes... but yeah I'm sure some cases are just maliciousness/looking for a quick buck. Most of the sketchier promoters don't last forever. Eventually people will catch on and stop supporting them. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Matt Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do people actually do this? I've never encountered any specific > incident of a promoter here putting someone's name on a flyer just to > pull in numbers without actually booking them, but people I speak to in > the US talk about it quite a bit. Is it common practice there then?
