My band Bomb was first band out of 5, opening for Flipper (headliner), with Tex and the Horseheads (second headliner).
The other two groups on the bill were bike messenger fun band The Noise Boiz, and groovy snot-nosed punks The Afflicted.
We got paid 50 bucks, same as Noise Boiz and The Afflicted.
Flipper and Tex were each promised 80% of the door. lol.
The promoter was either Paul Rat or Dirk Dirksen, I forget, they were both interchangeably sleazy and everywhere in Frisko booking back then.
So after the show, the promoter paid us our $50. He paid Noise Boiz 50, paid The Afflicted 50, pocketed several thousand bucks for himself.
Then he told someone from Flipper and someone from Tex to come in the bathroom with him. He threw 900 bucks in the air, all in ones and 5s, ran out of the room and let people from the two headliners fight over it.
Good times, Good times,
Michael W. Dean
You can download Bomb’s music, free, here.