Once in a while you meet some one in the entertainment industry who really does not belong. Donni 'The Mud Gripper" Blethow, short lived president of Amusements Diversified, Inc., is a solid example of just such a person. Blethow's true talent, the one that got him to company president, was his accuracy in accessing totals. Send him to a concert, let him see how big the crowd was, and he could immediately state what revenues the concessionaires would finish with, and certainly, the receipts from the gate.
He was so good that his error percentage was under 0.5%, If promoters even heard of his attendence, they would worry more about employee embezzlement, than providing artist management with incorrect totals.
What got him in trouble and fired from Amusemnt Diversified was his personal passion for visiting local businesses prior to these concert duties. There he would patiently explain to the manager how much he was skimming from the owner and that for a small donation, he would proceed no further. This practice may never have been discovered had he not attended the Bogus Slogan concert at the Contact Arena in New Phoenix, Pennsylvania.
Unfortuneatly for Donni he did not know that the local paper had printed an article about his promotion of the biggiest concert that the town had seen in over a decade. There was a large head shot of him on the paper's front page.
As Donni was finishing his shake down at the Black Tassels Gentlemen's Club, one of the lovely dancers personally thanked him for bringing the band to town. Whereupon the manager pulled a baseball bat from under the bar. Donni, seeing an emergency exit sign, jumped up on the runway, slipped on the glassy surface, and skidded blindly towards the back of the stage where the mud wrestling ring was stored when not in use.
One of the patrons, in violation of the club's no camera policy, was able to capture, Blethow's wild ride, including the passage through the plastic pit as Donni frantically grasped at the mud to stop his progress. The video played nonstop at the next NAMM convention.
Bogus Slogan Poster #53 - Inside View
