Things have been going well with Octane … So far, all of the rumors I heard about this band haven’t happened … They’re very easy to work with and haven’t gone off the deep end at all … The gig is high pressure … Stress levels are high … It’s a high profile band in more ways than one … I have come down in stress level though as things are working better … In Early November, their monitor guy of 4 years quit (basically without notice), so this left me with one less crew member and no one to do monitors … I called in Alex who used to do lights for Weekend at Bernie’s, and he has been coming out ever since … The band likes him and is offering him the job … He’s a little wishy washy about it, and I can’t really read what he wants to do … Seems he does want to do it but something in the back of his mind won’t enable him to fully committ or something …
I stopped by Cintioli’s yesterday … They wanted me to bring by money … So, instead of bringing by money, I went there to review the current order I have had outstanding with them since August 27th … They still have not got some things in that I ordered … I was told by several people not to go to Cintioli for this stuff and use some guy that they knew at another music store, but I was like; ‘I have been going to Cintioli’s since I was 13 years old … They have helped me out in the past, and I will honor that loyalty and buy solely from there.’ Welp, here it is 3 months later, and still things I ordered for Octane have not come in yet … It is very frustrating … So, after last night, even things I have been waiting for I decided I will get elsewhere, and I finalized what I will definitely be getting from them and a final payment when it’s all in … It really sucks that it’s turning out this way since a lot of my life … or career … went through that music store …