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Originally Posted by TheAmericanCannibal
CJ I don't miss the old days- I miss the "hustle" of the old days and the innovators of this biz.
This business has become too homogenized and very unoriginal.
Those are two words you could never say about Joe.
The first time I met Joe was over the phone when I worked for YNOT and he owed us $40,000 I threatened to come down and pay him a visit and was relentless in my collections for Rick Muenyoung-
He ended up asking me what I was doing that night ( it was a Friday) the next thing I know - he had booked me two first class tickets to Lauderdale that evening and made me an offer once I got there to run his new magazine, KLIXXX.
I told him NO but he had already put me on his payroll at $300 a week just to write an article or two-
He paid me for 6 mos and I never did anything- I also told him numerous times to quit sending me checks- but he still did.
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So he gave you $300 a week for doing nothing ... that makes him irresponsible and a terrible business person, not a great guy. Can you see that it would be hard for those he took money from to be impressed by that?
I hear what you are saying about the old days, it was a stack of fun, but there was no glorified hustle or innovators like you remember ... it was just a bunch of people standing under a rain cloud with a bucket. The innovators came when competition came, but really there's still not much more or less innovation here today than there was in 96, 99, 2002 ... the business people & innovators made their money & got out, they didn't spend their money and get driven out.
Everything we went through back then was a learning experience ... I just don't understand how you couldn't have learnt that throwing money around to show others how much you have isn't good business. It might have been cool, fun, hustle etc, but we were all just average folk making easy money & showing it off to anyone who cared.
I long for the days of Faye's shows with 500 odd people, 1 party per night and nobody wanting to kill each other for ripping them off.
Busty, that's a great photo of you and jeff!! We used to bump into each other all the time back in those days. I am trying to remember the name of that beautiful girl who worked with you, starts with L - your sister or jeff's sister I think? I always had a good chat with her & she was such a beautiful girl. I'm trying to find the photos of us but that's going back several hard drives ;/