Billy Moses

Spotted Owl Productions:

In advance: If you aren’t willing to sell tickets, do not ask to play any of my shows. After you play a good amount and I trust you, I’ll start to hook you up. But if I have little to no experience with your band, don’t count on it. I put in work and put together the line ups and shows that I do, so I except to do your end of the deal and sell tickets to ACTUAL PEOPLE… I don’t make shows high presale to be greedy, I do it to not lose money, honestly. Call it whatever you want, its the only want [sic] to make sure the show is completely successful. Don’t mean to sound like a dick, but thats [sic] how it has to be. NOW, if you’d like to play one of my shows (Including PARLIAMENT FEST) text me at *** *** ****.

Spotted Owl Productions took to Facebook Thursday night to publicly bash local bands who aren’t able to sell enough pre-sale. “Pre-sale,” a dreaded term used in the local music industry, representing a number of tickets that a band must sell before a production company or music venue will allow that band to play.

To be a considered as a “limitedly successful” band, bands need to proform at music venues to gain recognition and notoriety, they’re often told to sell pre-sales as high as 50 tickets at times, promoters make the prices of each ticket ten dollars, however, I’ve seen prices as high as twenty. Venues charge promoters about 1,000 dollars to let ten bands play, and the pre-sales of two or three bands easily make enough money to cover promoter expenses — leaving the promoter, like Spotted Owl Productions, a nice chunk of change, about 4,000 dollars in “fuck you” money.

What Spotted Owl Productions doesn’t understand is that bands, especially in the Southern California area, are in an economic crisis and that it is a hell of a lot more difficult to sell a twenty-dollar ticket than one might think. One twenty-dollar ticket often means for some people, filling up their gas tank to get to work and back, food in the refrigerator, oh, did I mention rent?

A man was wounded in a shooting Wednesday night by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in Pico Rivera.

The shooting took place near Rosemead Boulevard. No deputies were injured, the Sheriff’s Department said.

The extent of the man’s injuries was not immediately available.

It was unclear what sparked the shooting. Investigators were at the scene late Wednesday gathering evidence.

“Oh, The World” just announced on Facebook that they plan to no longer make physical copies of their music to distribute to fans.

Developing…

KFI just released the following statement:

“Effective immediately, KFI AM 640 hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou have been suspended for making insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston.

KFI AM 640 Management does not condone, support or tolerate statements of this kind.

John Kobylt said, ‘We made a mistake, and we accept the station’s decision. We used language that was inappropriate, and we sincerely apologize to our listeners and to the family of Ms. Houston.’

John and Ken will return to the air Monday, February 27.”

I guess, effective immediately, KFI ratings will go down the drain.

A band insider says, “A Smile Less Alive” will announce that their band mates will being going their separate ways in an upcoming announcement. Our spy says two of the band members are fighting a lot over a female. No further details were immediately made available.

BillyMoses.com has obtained exclusive pictures of what Nick Hansen and Brandi Hernandez’ kids might look like.

Tommy took a leap of faith and changed his last name on Twitter from Morales to Avalon on Monday night. The change was years in the making. “I’ve always liked the name Avalon,” Thomas said recently. Morales remains his last name on Facebook.

The fact that Robert Tickell became, “Ms. Avalon” has no relevance to this article.

See also: Robert Tickell: “Thomas and I have never f**ked.”

Will the Long Beach City Council make medical marijuana havens go up in smoke Tuesday or will it grant a reprieve? Either way, the city may have the means to close down the cannabis collectives.

Due to council members’ absences, the council has twice delayed a companion vote to ban dispensaries and repeal its 2010 statute regulating medical pot centers.

City Attorney Robert Shannon recommended the actions after an appeals court in October ruled in Pack v. Long Beach that the law violated federal code prohibiting sale and distribution of the drug.

Now, with the council set to take up the matter again, city legal staff have offered a glimpse into how a ban could be instituted – by using zoning code.

None of the city’s zoning tables specifically allow medical marijuana.

“The permit law created a process that would allow these facilities to exist within the buffers created by the ordinance,” said Assistant City Attorney Mike Mais.

Since the court decision rendered the statute moot, Mais argued, collectives are operating outside of the law.

“Unless a use in a zone is specifically permitted or conditionally permitted, it is a prohibited use,” he said.

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Pack case after the city requested clarification on its powers to regulate medical marijuana, which is permitted by the state under a 1996 voter-approved initiative.

Shannon expects the case to take at least 14 months to decide because of its far-reaching implications.
Matthew Pappas, the plaintiff’s attorney, claimed that the high court’s consideration of the case makes the earlier decision non-precedent setting.

“It would seem to me that it would be premature at this point to assert that they have the authority to effectively ban collectives,” Pappas said.

When it granted review of the Pack case, the Supreme Court also voted unanimously to decline an application to stop Long Beach from enacting a citywide pot dispensary ban.

Mais also pointed to another case, Claremont v. Kruse, which confirmed that medical marijuana laws don’t preempt local laws such as zoning and licensing as they apply to pot collectives.

“It’s good law in the state of California,” Mais said.

The council will consider the matter at its regular meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 333 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach.