D$ has heard this several times.....

I was brand new to the industry literally inside of 90 days and we went to go check the sceneout at ia2000 Miami.

This would be the show that launched the "Gold Rush" it was clear there was a ton of money to be made and there were legions of young hot shots wanting in on the action.....myself included.

After being on the floor for about two hours one thing became very clear....This Player's Ball was the event to attend....

So I briefed the crew and told them we were heading to the liquid lounge...when we arrived i did what ever i could to get up to the VIP so after asking the doorman if $500 would get me up the rope lifted and went upstairs to rub elbows with the group who would one day be my peers, my friends, and my closest business associates.

Once upstairs my appetite for success was hardly curbed. i went downstairs and decided to see if I could finesse my way tot he back stage area after a few confident attempts i see this D$ guy.....

So i tell him i wann tto go back and he says sure....i was floored.

the drinks were flowing and i was asked if i could give a shout out to the people in the balcony.......it was loud and D$ thought i had said i was with another company so a he said sure ......in fact why dont you announce ICE-T!!!!!

(D$ is such a stand up mo fo that he let what he thought was a sponsor have the honors of announcing the marquee talent)

So in my drunken state i stumble to the center stage and introduce myself and ICE-T....

D$ laughing asks who are you with again.....i tell him and he says Man i thought you said someone else!!!!!

We have had several good laughs about it over the years and it is to this day one of my fondest memories of working in this business

So there is my story the night i pirated my way to the elite VIP room and announced ICE-T without knowing a single person in the industry:winkwink:

Nice Story KB :thumbsup :1orglaugh

That rocks.. sharing a "smoke" with snoop...

hey Jim, I remember that :1orglaugh

"D$ laughing asks who are you with again.....i tell him and he says Man i thought you said someone else!!!!!"

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

people were like who the fuck is this drunken nobody....

JFK I remember you being back there as a matter of fact...

I was on cloud nine....i literally did not know if i would even be doing this shit for another month....but I'm going to make the best of it while i am here

I have better stories coming along...
all this nostalgia has got me thinking about stuff I tried to block out of my subconscience.

i recall that now -
Didn't you also accept a woody for someone not there?

Lets hear the snoop one... He is always good for a story.

LOL Yes!!!!!

I love that story. See, it was before I even wanted to be on stage. People think I'm a ham and I love being on stage, but the truth is, KB's the ham. I host it because I need to make sure sponsors are thanked and the flow of the night moves along. If you want to make sure things get done right, you have to step in there and do it yourself. I'm still working at being better on stage, the one thing I can say for sure is this, I don't get nervous at all up there. You'd think with everyone of your peers in the crowd and 5000 eyeballs on you, you'd be nervous. The truth is, I have so much shit to handle, my mind is so pre-occupied with the nights agenda, there's no time to be nervous, and that's the absolute truth.

So now when KB and I are up there, it's natural, it's really us, talking shit into the mics, not knowing what we're gonna say next. The only thing I know for sure is that the sponsors need to be thanked and Woody Award winners need to know we're about to announce the winners.


So having Jim up there to announce Ice-T was a no brainer. I didn't have to do it, and I gave the honors to what I that was "Pornholio". This is before Jim became, Jimholio.


I love that memories like that are shared with players that are still thriving in the game today. And to think that I provided a memory to a guy as cool as Jim makes me proud as well.

fitty PB stories

My best memory was seein Snoop and then the year before unknowingly hitting on Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend while he was getting drinks. I figured out why i was getting the cold vibe when he came back with another hottie and a bottle of Dom P. My worst memory was getting kicked out when some crazy steroid freak took a swing at me for asking his girlfriend what her name was!:1orglaugh

I have a story :)

Last year I was waiting by the limos. I had 2 passes, and myself and 3 women. I ran into D-Money who was nice enough to toss a couple extra passes my way. :thumbsup

As I get into the club, I notice 2 Boy Band members sitting in a corner. It was AJ from the Backstreet Boys and Joey fatone from NSync. We shot the shit for a while and then their bodyguards came over and whisked them to VIP. Since we were still talking, they invited me upstairs to VIP. I was on the way up when my friend came and said "We can't go up! (Insert chicks name) is still in the bathroom!".. They elevator was about to close and they said "Come on!". As I stared walking with my GF to the elevator, my friend grabbed my arm and said "We'll meet them later!". Needless to say, we weren't able to meet up with them later.

The rest of the part was great though and I appreciate DMoney for tossing me a couple passes! I hope I can get a couple more this year! :thumbsup

Pic from the incident:
http://www.camgirlconfessions.com/ve...s/IMG_1264.jpg

That is a great story.

Man, I get goose bumps reading this stuff.

The one thing people don't give me enough credit for over the years is I went so far out of my way to make sure everyone that needed a pass got a pass. I personally handed out passes at every trade show the Ball was a part of. The success of the Players Balls wasn't just because of the talents hired or the celebs showing up. The success was always because I worked my ass off making sure these passes got in the hands of every webmaster. I took the time to explain the details to every single one of the people I gave a pass to.

I wish I could still give them out the care free. But since we trimmed the party down to 2000 people instead of 5000 people, I gave the tickets to the paying sponsors. Man, back in the day, it was pretty scary thinking that I had to fill a venue up with basically everyone attending the trade show for it to appear like a full venue. And I never issued these passes to the public, though they found their way through the crooked door guys taking their tips.

So I'm sad I can't give passes like that anymore, it was free to anyone attending the trade shows for about 6 years until last year when it become a party with passes issued to the sponsors. But hey, I'm also glad it changed because it was a lot of work running around those shows making sure everyone would attend. Reminds me of the things rappers did back in their day, selling tapes out of the trunks of their cars. I worked even harder then that just so we wouldn't look dumb with an empty venue.

I'm glad I had a few passes left last year to give you, you definitely need to attend them all playa.

OK since I got the "story telling genes" in the family I'll share the Snoop Dogg story

D sends over a HUGE wire to William Morris for Snoop to play IN FULL.
We are really excited to have him come and play.
All week we are told by many industry insiders that Snoop is famous for not showing up and stiffing promoters.

This prompts D and I to get a little concerned as you can imagin. Having a house full of a bunch of pimped out webmasters and sponsors who paid as HIGH as $50,000 ( thanks CE) You can imagine the emnormous stress that D$ and I shared at midnight when we didn't see or hear a word from Snoop.

I am backstage going literally crazy waiting. the clock strikes 12:15 am and I am holding a hockey jersey ( Players Ball jersey that says SNOOP #!) and a bag of Humboldt's finest - thanks to ..
well he knows who he is...
I am anxiously awaiting Snoop's arrival.

12:30 am the freight elevator in the back of the Venetian opens up, and much like a circus that has the car packed with a silly amount of clowns , they start shuffling out

One by one I see 75 REAL true life PIMPS come out of the elevator with Don Magic Juan. Then I see 7 bodyguards come rolling out and finally I see Snoop saunter his way in wearing his baby blue cape and pimp suit complete with pimp glass.

I hand him his bag of chronic- give him his hockey jersey and he says " that's good lookin' cuz"
I then say "hold on a minute Snoop, I have someone here who wants to meet you real bad".

I then grab Jenna Jameson and proceed to lead her through the entourage of rib and chicken eating homies- and bring her to the rear of the dressing room where Snoop was sitting like a king in his throne.

I then say to Snoop- " Snoop I want you to meet the biggest pornstar in the world- Jenna Jameson"
He looks at her and with a wink he says I" know who you are, and I gots to say..I ain't mad at ya"!

They speak for a few minutes and then I tell Snoop he is on whenever he is ready.

He leaves the backstage area to proceed t the stage when one of his ridiculously huge bodyguards grabs me as I am standing alone in Snoop's dressing room.

he picks me up off th floor and pins me against the wall and asks who the hell I am ...

Just then another bodyguard walks in and says "he is one of the promoters- he is cool put him down"

he then brushes my shoulders off and fixes my tie- I say to the 350 plus black gentleman.

"It's a damn good thing you put me down when you did, otherwise I was going to open a can of WHOOP ASS ON YA!"

He starts to laugh- I then say " A Salaam A leggum" and he cracks the fuck up

After seeing me in my pimp suit- and saying that - both Snoop and his people to this day still laugh about it.

In fact the way I got my GFY nick was when 6 mos later Snoop won his AVN award I was standing backstage- he walks off the stage ad says

" Kbizzle!"

I look at him and say " You rememeber me?"
I was floored.

he replies.

"You are Kbizzle- Dmizzle's brizzle from the Plizzle Bizzle, you are da nigga who introduced me to Jenna Jameson, how can I forget you"

We then went to the afterparty at the WB in the Venetian I tell Snoop I left my weed in the room - I am standing with my date at the time HOUSTON and he grabs an ounce out of his pocket and puts it in my suit pocket-

we proceeded to smoke and hangout all night- In fact
I ditched Houston and ended up fucking around with the Penthouse pet of the Millenium that

I also got busted at 6am...but that's another story.

:-))

That was badass last year.. You really came through and I appreciate it :)

I look forward to making it again this year, but I guess it depends on whether or not a sponser wants to hook a Sherm up. :thumbsup

HAHA Nice life.. gotta love that shit.. Good story.. you still got my vote for the players VIP (as if you need them)... Next in line would be sherm for getting fucked outta his chance when he had it.. Not that my vote counts for shit but my :2 cents:

KB sucks!

While I'm out there stressing out over sponsors being happy and making sure things are running smooth, he gets to take all of the glory backstage with Jenna and Snoop giving the hockey jersey to Snoop that I took so much time putting together!

All good though.

We had a request for more Snoop stories.

Here's something I get a kick out of.

Everytime I see him, I ask if he really has my Big Woody Award. He still says it's up on his mantle next to his American Music Award and BET Award. he's proud of being a Big Woody Award winner. (Pussycash is the proud sponsor this year for the awards).

The other thing I get a kick out of is that Snoop and the rest of his crew watch our Players Ball VHS tape on their tour bus all the time. They didn't even have a good copy, they were watching a copy of a copy. I made a copy for Shock G, he made a copy for Don Magic Juan. So it was a 3rd generation copy of the Players Ball including the Woody's and digital Underground and Snoop.

Last time I saw Snoop, I gave him the DVD I made (thanks to Stephen from gigacash). And I gave Don Magic Juan a DVD too. So at least now they're seeing a good version of it with good audio.


It's hard to believe that to people in that circle, webmasters are the stars in their eyes. they love our lifestyle and the vibe our industry gives off. Snoop says he wants to play at all of them.

Secret clue to a question posed yesterday?

Ahh brotherly love...

yeah I love my brother and he loves to fuck with me.

:Graucho

Ya think? :winkwink:

I can say this, there will be some major celebs attending this event, again.

As far as naming names, can't say.

But I can say this. Even if I know who's supposed to go, it doesn't mean that they will really show up.

Got some rappers attending, some surprises.

The question I want to know is, will Chuck D from Public Enemy show up?

Warren G's kicked it with us over a year ago. Maybe he'll come back too.

Let's just say we have a very impressive guest list for rappers.

In 2003 in Vegas, I was waiting in line for hours just waiting to get into the VIP pre-show with some psychopath extremely drunk guy with no pass and Hank. Poor Hank stood there for hours with me and a few other people waiting to get in. That impressed me tremendously that someone such as Hank would do that considering he was a sponsor(i believe). Later on seeing Jenna walking around and then Tera Patrick with her Biohazard guy was great. I also saw that drunk guy without a pass stumbling around the VIP a few times that night.

probably RIZZO

:1orglaugh

OK the stories are slowing down a bit.

So we'll pick a winner soon.

Final chance for your Players Ball story to win.

No more stories?? :( They rocked... I cannot wait for my chance to go and experience this shit all 1st hand...


:thumbsup

I got too wasted back stage to remember what was going on..
:(

with 388 posts on GFY I am doubting you were anywhere near the venue

Prove me wrong.

http://naughtykittys.com/images/internext/image011.jpg
Just remembered..
Was hanging out with some hot latinas and Daizie and it got naughty because the girls kept on falling all over and spilling their drinks everywhere..they had to take off thier dresses..

There hasn't been a better party than the times TB threw parties like this one..
http://naughtykittys.com/images/internext/image016.jpg

Hell.. I have even less posts and was near it last year... Did not go but was near it since I was selling a film at AVN last year.. I just tend to lurk, but this year I am coming out and plan on getting having a blast at the ball this year...

This story was a finalist, so we'll give it honorable mention. It dates back to the beginning, you hung out with D$ Family / Buffet Family members, that's almost worth the win right there.

But I have to base it on the best story, the winner will be announced in the next couple of posts. Gonna post another finalist and then the winner. I at least gotta give thanks to the top 3.

I can't include KB's and Jimholio is already hooked up from my stash, so he can't be eligible, plus I'm biased because I know that story first hand and it's one of my favorites too.

It's a great story, because Peachez ended up making the stage show super hot!

And, if you really did get fired because of that, that's a crazy story and well worth a pass. However, you'll have more chances to win in another contest I'll do soon. I'll automatically favor your entry because this story was a good one. But not good enough in this round. Thanks for the memories!

Great story, but you're already gettin' the hook up 4 life.

And I love the pics.

SHERM! SHERM!

WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




First, it's a great story. 2 boy band members at a Players Ball for the porn industry is surreal in itself. But then to be hanging out and having fun with them, about to follow them up to VIP in the secret elevator then your friends fuck things up as the door is closing.

I wish it had a happier ending, like coming back upstairs and hanging out some more in the VIP, but I'm sure you had a great ending to the night if you hung out at the Ball for a bit.

The Drake getting the blow job story was soooooo close to winning. The thing is, with a porn party, shit does happen like that. But 2 boy band members at a porn party in Vegas, with pics! Good one, send me an email and I'll give you a Player Code to register.


Welcome back playa.

Email is in my sig.

Or ICQ me.

congrats shermshack

I don't have a memory because I've never been there ...
So the best way to go is to give me a pass, I'l show up this year, and I'l have nice memories to tell in this thread after :P

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh