Freestyle Fans-booking Agents-promoters-club Managers

[RecordingArtistDAVID]

to all my freestyle friends and loyal fans for over 20 years
PLEASE BE ADVISED. There is a promoter in California promoting a show in the Pico Rivera Sports Arena who is promoting the group NICE & WILD to appear. The promoter BOBBY DEE and a booking agent who is LATIF from LA BOOKINGS is trying to scam all the FREESTYLE FANS into buying tickets for this show by advertising that they are having NICE & WILD the original members to perform for them. Here is the deal with that nonsense. Everyone knows that I DAVID am one of the original members of the group NICE & WILD and I AM NOT CONTRACTED TO BE ON THIS SHOW. So don't be fooled and don't spend your hard earned dollars on this show because you will be surprised to see people on stage that you never seen before.
The promoter and LA BOOKINGS are scamming people into buying tickets so they can make a quick buck on freestyle fans who don't know any better... what you will be paying to see at that show is not what you have been seeing for the past 20 years. AGAIN... I WILL NOT BE AT THIS SHOW to perform and I just wanted to make sure that you "THE FANS" are not robbed out of your hard earned money by expecting to see me perform which I have been doing for you for the past 20 years.
Everyone knows me as DAVID formerly of NICE & WILD and I have given my fans the best of me on stage for over 20 years. KEEP IN MIND AGAIN... I WILL NOT BE AT THAT SHOW IN PICO RIVERA... The promoter BOBBY DEE and the booking agent LATIF of LA BOOKINGS should never be trusted because they are looking to rob the freestyle fans and put on imposters to make a quick buck. So if I was you.... "THE FREESTYLE FANS"... From now on, If you hear of any show that includes NICE & WILD in that show and you really want to go..... Just contact me before you buy any tickets and I will let you know if I am on that show. I am easy to find on the internet and on Facebook and Myspace and I will be very happy to let you know so that you don't spend your money to see someone else that you don't care to see.
Here is another reason these people should never be trusted... I have done a bunch of shows for LATIF of LA BOOKINGS and also for BOBBY DEE and now they are quick to screw me over for shows and for no reason what so ever because I never had any problems with any of them. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THIS... They will screw you over too in a heart beat! BEWARE FANS!!! Everyone I ever did business with knows that I am the easiest and friendliest person to work with. I just do my show, give the fans what they came to see and hear and I leave. I never had any problems with any promoter or booking agent in my 25 years in this business. This is what I have to say to BOBBY DEE AND LATIF of LA BOOKINGS... SHAME ON YOU BOBBY and LATIF for trying to scam the Freestyle Fans into believing they are buying something they will never get through you again.
JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE ABOUT THE NICE & WILD STORY... Back in the 80s, When the group decided to break up and give up on freestyle music altogether and walked away from NICE & WILD's loyal freestyle fans, THE ONLY ORIGINAL NICE & WILD MEMBER who stayed recording freestyle and believed in freestyle music and stuck it out through thick and thin and fought up to this day to keep the music alive was me. DAVID or call me DAVID formerly of NICE & WILD... I'm the one who moved up to NYC and signed with Micmac Records and kept recording freestyle because I always believed that my fans will always be there for me and I never wanted to let them down by walking away from them like the other members did. The other members never believed in the fans or the music and I believe that the only reason they are trying to step back into the limelight again is only because they smell money!
TO ALL THE FREESTYLE FANS... Thank you for being loyal to me for the past 20 years. You fans are everything to me.
Throughout my entire career, I never been involved in any gossip, bonche or internet related discussions but this time I feel I just had to speak my mind because my fans deserve an explanation!
If anyone wants to contact me to find out about shows or anything, Please send an email to [email protected]
David
Anyone interested in booking DAVID formerly of NICE & WILD... to perform a real show and sing the hits...
DIAMOND GIRL, I'M NOT GONNA CRY OVER YOU, NO REGRETS AND MUCH MUCH MORE....
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[comicbookguy]

So let me get this straight...

The original members (except David) are performing again to make a few extra bucks.

David want "his" fans not to see the show because he is not in it.

David doesn't realize that Freestyle groups (ex: the Cover Girls) haven't perform with their original members for years.

David hasn't recorded a freestyle track or even a decent freestyle track in years ("Woman" and the "Seven Days A Week" remake are not decent at all).

Isn't Latif (don't even know what he looks like or his personal history in Freestyle) known for his "shady" business scams already?



On a personal note, why doesn't micmac or David just sue Laif and Bobby? Let those fools run the concert, and when its over, get a piece of the green?

 

[Putana]

I got this in my email box today...took me by surprise! I took it as a bunch of nobodies taking the groups names (Joe Shmoe from the streets IS Soave for example)...but it seems it goes deeper then that.

So much drama ni the Freestyle world!

 

[JRT]

This isn't exclusive to Freestyle, many oldies acts have these problems, from Doo-Wopp groups to today.

Part of the whole problem is in a lot of cases, producers or managers end up "owning" the name, either because how the group was formed, or what contracts were signed.

It can really get messy when some people in the group have disagreements and you have a schism, with band members fighting each other. That's where loyalties are tested among fans.

Then there is the general ranking of members--I would say who was signing the most and performing live / on TV AT THE GROUPS peak would cement the legitimacy in fans--unless the group has been recording a lot of new music, most of these shows are oldies shows and they want the acts they know and love. (Such as: Ann, Jeanette and Gioia in Expose' outrank "the originals" or any temporary replacements--although they consider Kelly an equal because they are friends, Betty Dee of Sweet Sensation really outranks the other members since she's the front woman and who fans know best, even if she didn't form the group, and it seems based on what I hear that the original line-up of the Cover Girls with Angel outrank in the fans minds the current line-up. I really don't know enough about Nice & Wild or TKA to judge).

I use that rule for bands--lead singer usually has more rank unless it's something like a famous guitar player. Even Van Hallen, who's name is on the band, couldn't overrule fan support for the two famous lead singers--the controversy over the Hagar-Roth fiasco hurt the album they did with the guy from Extreme. But even that doesn't always matter--the public rejected a Supremes reunion since they wanted to see not just Diana Ross but Cindy Birdsong and Mary Wilson all together.

You probably see more fighting over groups who are LESS famous than MORE. New Kids on the Block, for instance, you could never just get another bunch of people to perform. In many cases, the name is more powerful because most of the general public doesn't memorize the people unless they break out with fame. That's the main reason for these battles.

Most people don't want to deal with a lawsuit. Lawsuits are very expensive--at my estimate the cost for legal bills will likely be equal to the money they can make from several years of club performances, and in many cases contracts were signed which show who owns the group.

 

[bubblegum]

Here We Go Again........

 

[george]

I don't want to fan this flame or say anything negative about all this, cos I dont know these people personally and really, I could care less as to the backroom politics. I'm just about the music. But I do want to say this....

I have been a fan of David's music since "No Regrets", I have the solo album and loved all the singles...so when I go to a Freestyle show and he is performing, I want to hear him sing HIS songs not a 12 minute version of "Diamond Girl". Because I think (and this is just MY opinion) that he contributed some great songs to freestyle, escpecially, "Im not Gonna Cry over You". So he should be proud of that and run with it. The first time I went to a big show that he was performing at, I saw the flyer and it had all the artists name on it, as well as David "Diamond Girl" I was like, huh?, whatever...and when he came on stage and sang Diamond Girl and ad libbed for 12 minutes and then left without singing any of his songs, I was like, what????

Anyway, what I'm saying is...so much for artist development... David, let go of Nice and Wild and the past, focus on the other highlights of your career and go finish that album that the Mic Mac website says you've been working on for the past 5 years.