wasabe! thanks d$ and everyone for a great time! cypress' conga jam was the highlight of '05. thanks for the pimp cup too d- definitely a conversation piece. happy new year to everyone and looking forward to a giant year :-)

It pays to be a pimp! I got me and my people right in waving my players card. Thanks D$ for putting together a great party, I didn't leave till they kicked us out :thumbsup
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Hey D!

You've got 2 of mine that we weren't able to pick up as well, would love to have :)

We just got home..... The Players Ball was definately the greatest event of Internext and I want to thank you for hooking us up. We took tons of awesome pics and I'll post to this thread for you as soon as I get them dumped and sorted out.

Was a crazy night.... really kicked ass :thumbsup The only problem I had was all the dumbasses on the dance floor near the stage that wouldn't let girls through ( got drinks intentionally poured on me, feet stomped and Jake had to continue to hold back the fools to keep off of me and my girls. ) I was appalled that guys acted like that, especially to girls that just wanted to get in front of them and dance. But..... regardless, the entire night was unmatched and you did an awesome job in putting things together. Thanks baby !!!

Shout outs to Bdjuf and his boys in pic below...we rocked the hell out of the limo on the way to the Players Ball and I really hated they didn't get in to keep partying with us ! Love you guys !

KISSES
Ivy

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i said excuse me to everyone around me.

i was the 3rd of 3 people holding hands - and i said excuse me about 1000 times.


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Not to but in but FYI this kinda of bullshit breaks Dmoney's heart.

He threw the best players ball yet in my opinion and I worked with closely behind the scenes with em threw out. They guy puts his heart and soul into throwing this thing.

A friend of mine took a bottle to the head and still left the Players Ball in good spirits. Take it to the phone and talk this negative shit out.

Everyone that wanted to get and everyone that was inside the Players Ball this year was important. End of story. I had a great time this year taping the whole thing, I will see what I can do to get some video up for people to check out if ya werent there:)

damn! i guess u could say im a fan of yukmouth..... i got every solo album of him ..... would be dope to meet the man haha

This is what I have heard by many many people.

D-Money,

Having been one of the sponsors back in the day in 1999 in Miami, I have to say that this has been the without any doubt, the best party you have thrown.

The Player's Card is an excellent idea, and helped in moving in line much quicker.

Thanks for a great time, Macdaddybucks.com had a blast!

Well put AlienQ :thumbsup :thumbsup

Exactly...It was a shamble and poorly ran event. :2 cents:

reality is - there are levels of importance at these kind of events. In a capitalist society like ours - it's determined by sponsership, ie cash. .You can be a communist and say everyone's a vip - but it's bullshit. Life doesn't work like that.

no fucking way should someone who paid $10k or $20K or more have to wait in the crowd like everyone else - they PAID for a better experience.

D-Money has the SHOW down pat - it's awesome - he NEEDS to put some more focus on the door. He knows this and he knows a LOT of people, and i mean a LOT of people were very pissed about the door. There isn't any excuse for this - if you can't trust the venue's security - BRING YOUR OWN. Don't trust any venue's security anymore, take controll of it and do it YOURSELF. NOT HARD. so what if the security is doubled up - it's now a NECESSITY as this has been a recuring problem.

There was a LOT of people there who were not in the industry - the industry PAID for an event with us in the industry - why were outsiders there? (hot girls aside- they should always be let in as vips). Once again - door problem


D-money - FIX the fucking door problem and you'll have a flawless event. it means spending more on security - but the door is everything to a LOT of people and the only real complaint I'm hearing, but i'm hearing a LOT of them about the door.

I've got more incriminating pics if you need em ! :winkwink:

Thanks to all the guys at Mobbucks for having us at their table....we had a blast :pimp

Here's one of the first pics, still going through hundreds , LOL


Ivy
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I'm in total agreeance with you, believe it or not

I was there as a guest of a sponsor as were you apparently
I realize the guys with Player's Cards had priority as well as sponsors and all the other passes had VIP stamped on them.

priority should always be: artist, sponsor, VIP, attendee

I realize D-Money can't be everywhere at once.

There should be an industry person at the door who knows pretty much everybody, so sponsors can get in. Artists should have their own private entrance and it probably wouldn't hurt to have a sponsor entrance if possible.

I apologize for making this thread into a negative with my attacks on Sleazy as everyone did have a good time once they got in.

maybe next year Sleazy and I can work the door together??
;-))

You guys can sit at out table anytime, we had a blast...... :thumbsup :thumbsup

I hear you, no doubt the show is tight and the door problems break my heart. Here's the thing. I've hired people to over look security teams in the past and still got screwed with security. I can't bring in a bunch of unlicensed security people to work a venue in Vegas, doesn't work that way. If I hired a team in Vegas, how do I know they wouldn't be the same way? The security team was subbed out by the venue, as we did it last year. What happened here is simple, their security team didn't have everything the way I went over it with the manager. Last year, we had the same security team and it was flawless, so I had every reason to believe this year would be too. The difference is that they have a different manager, and she appearantly didn't pay attention to those important details we went over many times.

I will continue to put extra efforts into the lines and security. The Players Card and same venue I would have thought should be sufficient, especially since I kept the team the same, minus a manager of the venue.

Then, when you have big time talents performing, it gets super complicated, but they were my second concern. I chose to fish people inside and chase around security and managers so the guests and sponsors would be happy. I was getting in the faces of all security people demanding people get in, and they weren't budging unless I sent over the GM. Now try and run through that crowd, people trying to stop you every 2 seconds, half of them had other fires that needed to be put out, it's not easy. Sometimes it works perfect, most of the time it does not. But I have had 2 perfect evenings with the doors in Vegas. 2002 C2K @ the Venetian was perfect and 2004 same venue as last year was perfect. My logic on this was strong, but it was not in the cards. If it worked last year, keep it the same and add more people to help out with the addition of Player Cards, it should have worked.

Sorry again to those players that didn't get inside, I think the best thing I can do to make it up to you is send you Player Cards. It did work, not perfectly due to the lack of crowd control by their security, but people are happy that the Player Cards got them and their friends inside much faster.

I'll give up to 300 more Player Cards to those people who had major issues getting in. I'll post it this week and re-open the Player Card form. Or I'll do it by emailing me.

Hopefully next year we'll have no problems with door people again.

that's class. impressed.

I'm truly sorry if i hurt your wife

I was the guest of and with a sponser as well as i was supposed to be presenting (although i missed my cue to go onstage)

Nice work! :thumbsup

the only real thing i can suggest D-money is to have a few people at the door that know the indusrty players - guys like AaronM or the like that know most everyone. Pay him to work the door WITH the security. He can keep OUT the idiots and make sure industry gets in.

I agree and not just for the Players ball but for all the events where there is non industry people running the door. I personally would volunteer an hour or maybe two to doing this. I'm sure others would as well.

in my pre-porn life, I was a concert/event promoter
I've dealt with my share of bonehead security

at one festival show, I even fired the secruity guards halfway through and hired a couple bikers to work the door and manage the crowds and had no troubles the rest of the event (I was busy juggling 15 bands and 5,000+ fans and a poorly trained security force and had to do something)

I've always emphathized with D-Money on running such an event and my advice has always been to hire a few more bodies to oversee things like security, the door, artist care, etc. so he can concentrate on putting on a damn good party...it's too much for one person to handle by themselves..
hell, I used to struggle with a staff of 15+ ;-)

Reading about all this door trouble... I'm glad we did what we did. We actually went into the lounge before the show was started and had a couple drinks. We were told that we would eventually get kicked out for the show, but never were. Heh, probably not what D-Money wanted to hear but it ended up working out great for us.

ITS ALWAYS THE NASTY GLUTTONS LIKE YOU WHO RUIN A GOOD TIME FOR OTHERS BECAUSE YOUR WORRIED ABOUT GETTING ANOTHER DRINK OR PIG IN A BLANKET.WHY DID YOU BOTHER GOING? NO LADIES THERE FOR YOU.BEISDES THE ONES YOU TRAMPLED TO GET TO THE HORS'- DEVOURS' WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT ,HONESTLY ,YOU ARE A DISGUTING SLOB WITH NO CLASS AND VERY LITTLE MORALS :321GFY

note to self: hang out with Sly and Moose more often...they are beyond elite
;-)))

YOU BROUGHT YOUR TWINK GOPHERS WITH YOU AS BACK-UP? :1orglaugh SLOB :321GFY

something else that might also help, while I am giving unsolicited advice (and this is for other industry parties as well): have different colored passes for each level.

example:
artist/management/guest pass is red
sponsor/guest is green
VIP is purple
general is blue

or something to that effect. It'll make it easier for security to spot and makes it easier to divide people into lines.

this is something we did back in the day with our festival shows to help problems with rent-a-cops

There was something like that. I had both a sponsor and a VIP pass and they were different colors. I think the artist pass was different too, but I can't say for sure.

the sponsor passes had the wording underneath that said
NATS SUITE PASS
sponsored by
NATS, Merchant Solutions and Men's Niche

but the color if the passes was the same as the regular ones...
when we used to do it in the old days, the whole pass was different

i didn't see the artist's passes, so not sure if they were different colors or not

yeah, he'd like to work the door :)

VIP was green.

Suite passes were purple, and so was All Access.

Artists were red.

I'm telling you, I'm pretty on it, sometimes a plan gets fucked up when security get egos and take over their ideas upon us.

ok, my bad

A lot of people in the crowd had no idea what the Players Cards were.

One girl asked me if I was flashing a black AMEX :1orglaugh

D$ the next version of the cards should include a built in laser to shine in the doorman's eye to get their attention. :pimp

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Good one.

VIP and Sponsor were green. Artist's are red and purplish

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See for yourselves.

We got in no problem.
Our bottle of Grey Goose was fresh and we had a good time.

wtf is everyones problem ? hahaha


Anyway we got in early and it sounds if that was a good thing as i would have never stood for any of that shit and bailed.

Sykk..i have your back man and know what you speak is real.


D-money as multi attendee of your events i have to say this was the best and glad i got in early :)

Thanks to D$ for pulling us out of line at the Player's ball to get us in.

It was a blast in the Mensniche and NATS suites and my crew had a great time too!

Mitch

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I thought the venue was great. It wasn't too awfully crowded and you could actually have conversations with no trouble depending where you were at. The performance was the highlight! I had a total blast.. :thumbsup

The Player's Ball was a SUPER BLAST and Cypress Hill and Flava Flav rocked the fuckin' house!

Good party D$!!!

:thumbsup :thumbsup

Got some CLASSIC video of Flava Flav doing "911 is a Joke"!!! That shit was off the friggin' hook! I'll send it to you D$ and you can post it!

Also, got some Cypress Hill Video too, but the sound squelched so bad on my camera it's not worth posting.

After all these years of doing the ball with you guys I'm glad I was smart enough to get rest before the party and do a late dinner. I got there at 1:30am and missed the melee outside!

:pimp

Awesome night!

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they don't give a fuck. thats the issue. they will be there tomorrow and the next day and the next day.

its not their party and they are getting paid the same regardless. these kinds of security teams actually make far less on nights like this because no one is willing to shove 200 bucks up their ass to get in. the las vegas club sceen people have a hierarchy and people tip to get into the front. these so called security companies care about money. they have zero incentive to make anything expedient. expedient doesn't get tips in their pocket.

bottom line and this is what i would suggest. do it at a venue that you control everything down to the electricity.

as soon as it started outside with the CF i wanted to leave, but i decided to stay and watch the clusterfuck because i thought i might be able to tell you what went down better. at this point you may know pretty good, but it was not pleasureable. instead of letting it ruin my night i decided to turn it into a recon mission.

once we got in, and the whole stage out of control thing got handled, i had a blast as soon as cypress hill hit the stage. when digital was up there it was painful to watch. so many people trying to be someone climbing on your stage. was sad to watch.

man cypress hill killed it.

wow. never seen them do it like that. they were 10 times better than street scene.

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