‘Pay for Play’

With the increasing attention to the “pay to play” virus, it’s becoming increasingly frustrating to read of club owners griping about barely making ends meet and thus justifying the practice.

The problem lies with the clubs’ refusal to have one in-house booker; use of a single booker would end the need for outside promoters, who are, for the most part, the greatest perpetrators of the pay-to-play evil.

Clubs in areas such as Anaheim, San Pedro and Reseda survive because they use one booker and do their own advertising, along with some pre-sales.

CARLOS LOERA

Manager of Adonis, a metal band

Los Angeles