HBkahuna
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 1778
Star, Idaho. Formerly lived in Surf City USA.
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Posted on Oct 22 2009 08:38 PM
EMERGENZA - PAY TO PLAY EURO BATTLE/FEST
So I get this call today from this super fast talking chick that wants the band for this big music fest I have never heard of. I can't get a word in but she wants to set up a meeting with the band in some local bar. All the warning bells are going off.
Here is the scam:
EMERGENZA is the brain-child of Italian Massimo Scialo (at right) and German Andrea Petricca. This is the Euro pay-to-play fest. This company has been going for about 13 years in Europe. Just recently they stretched their slimy fingers to the US. Everyone got the special myspace spam invite (we got several!) to join the fun and enter the chance to win special prizes (lots of equipment from instrument companies that are dumb enough to help sponsor this one), a trip to Germany for the last rounds and the biggest prize of all...five days on the Warped Tour (in 2007 downgraded to the RedGorilla Music Fest in Austin, TX) and six weeks of recording at Roastinghouse Studios in Malmoe, Sweden. and the chance to claim you are the BEST BAND ON THE PLANET (no fooling!). (Again, like Bodog's recording contract, there is no mention of who owns what, for instance, the music you create. If you enjoy the recordings of other Roastinghouse bands like Cloudscape, Cosmic Ballroom, Faithful Darkness and Timeless Miracle, maybe this is for you. Otherwise Roastinghouse looks just like any other studio. Here's an important FYI: The Sessions, the band that won the 2006 Emergenza Fest "didn't accept this prize").
The Emergenza Battle of the Bands represents themselves more as a festival but the basics are still the same. Emergenza requires an entry fee of $70, plus gives you 100 (damn!) tickets to sell. They say that you are not required to sell the tickets BUT if the votes are counted by popularity, that would be pretty much the only way youll get a vote. So your choice is buying into the ticket-selling idea or knowing that youll automatically lose going into it. Its the Entertainment Catch-22. Emergenza is so established that all you need to do is google "Emergenza and your choice of expletives" and youll get the idea on all the happy bands that have tried this one. YOUR BAND'S CHANCE: 1 in 6,000.
Much more & photos of the scam here... http://www.wig-out.com/&pay-to-playEMERG.htm#Emerg04
Doesn't look like the 20,000 people they promise.
The security guard at left, holds back the crowd while the next band battles to win the 2008 Emergenza Battle of the Bands!
Last edited: Oct 23, 2009 13:50:54
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mom_surfing
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 5322
the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Oct 23 2009 12:18 PM
 i read a bunch on this..........wow..............
— www.surfintheeye.com
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StevieMartini
Joined: Mar 01, 2006
Posts: 490
Chicago
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Posted on Oct 23 2009 03:02 PM
Wow thats amazing and funny shit on that web site.
I remeber getting myspace emails from this organization before, told them we don't pay to play. Never heard from them until the followin year. Same crap. Don't know if I should feel sorry for the pathetic people lured by this or laugh.
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HBkahuna
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 1778
Star, Idaho. Formerly lived in Surf City USA.
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Posted on Oct 23 2009 04:21 PM
The lady at contacted me was a total fast talking scam artist. I'm considering calling her back and having some fun with her Phil Hendrie style.
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SGF
Joined: Jul 08, 2007
Posts: 106
Brittany
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Posted on Nov 14 2009 07:10 PM
Got that exact same phone call for the Tritones, I think it was 2006. Agreed to the rendez-vous (to make her shut up), never went. I could smell the bullshit from a lightyear away.
— Matter is just energy waiting to happen.
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synchro
Joined: Feb 02, 2008
Posts: 4559
Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ.
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Posted on Nov 14 2009 08:23 PM
SGF
Got that exact same phone call for the Tritones, I think it was 2006. Agreed to the rendez-vous (to make her shut up), never went. I could smell the bullshit from a lightyear away.
Anyone that calls me and puts on the pressure gets the tables turned on them. I'll make and then postone appointments, tell them made up personal problems the would shock Giraldo Rivera, re-direct them to a phone number that rings endlessly, you name it.
— The artist formerly known as: Synchro
When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.
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WhorehayRFB
Joined: Jun 12, 2008
Posts: 3331
Huntington Beach, CA
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Posted on Nov 16 2009 11:16 AM
Thanks for the tip, HBkahuna! Hopefully this will prevent many bands from getting taken.
— Radio Free Bakersfield--60 Minutes of TWANG, CRUNCH, OOMPH.
http://radiofreebakersfield.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Radio-Free-Bakersfield/172410279636
http://www.sandiegojoe.com/rfb.htm
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synchro
Joined: Feb 02, 2008
Posts: 4559
Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ.
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Posted on Nov 16 2009 12:23 PM
Those picture remind me of a scene from Spinal Tap.
— The artist formerly known as: Synchro
When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.
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WhorehayRFB
Joined: Jun 12, 2008
Posts: 3331
Huntington Beach, CA
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Posted on Nov 16 2009 12:27 PM
synchro
Those picture remind me of a scene from Spinal Tap.
Or a Ziggens album cover.
image
— Radio Free Bakersfield--60 Minutes of TWANG, CRUNCH, OOMPH.
http://radiofreebakersfield.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Radio-Free-Bakersfield/172410279636
http://www.sandiegojoe.com/rfb.htm
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synchro
Joined: Feb 02, 2008
Posts: 4559
Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ.
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Posted on Nov 16 2009 01:18 PM
WhorehayRFB
synchro
Those picture remind me of a scene from Spinal Tap.
Or a Ziggens album cover.
image
That's a hoot.
— The artist formerly known as: Synchro
When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.
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revmike
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 3859
North Atlantic
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Posted on Nov 16 2009 06:37 PM
I HATE PAY TO PLAY...there, I said it.
Rev
— Canadian Surf
http://www.urbansurfkings.com/
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Icetech
Joined: Dec 16, 2006
Posts: 892
Macomb Mich
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Posted on Nov 17 2009 09:20 PM
If you want to make her insane, get her attention somehow.. ask to be a sponsor or something.. then talk SUPER slow.... i talk fast by nature and people that talk slow make me crazy...
— I wanna play just like him when i grow up...
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