This is Google's cache of . Google's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web. The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the current page without highlighting. Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content. These search terms have been highlighted: smelly melt banana Molecules fax Just before the tour started getting booked. About August or so. I received a fax with Japanese description of pretty young female, in various posses. Then in tiny hand writing it said Smelly Loves Rika. Then it had some scratched out writing that detected a bit of nasty behavior. I never showed it to NOAB Booking until the fire of who is working for what they get & Who is not working for what they get FIGHT began. I also showed it to Melt Banana when I had them here in the first week. Just to let them know what kind of madness had started over such a small ole band from Tokyo. Bambi was on tour With Zeni Geva. So she left the trusted booking duties to John & Deanna. Well I had thought they were doing a wonderful job! That was until the last few days, when I saw in the news paper that NOAB had neglected to honor my contractual agreement with Melt Banana. All the California shows were supposed to have RUDOLPH supporting Melt Banana. Well Rudolph was on the shows, but Deanna had made the mistake of not telling the clubs about the support spot. As far as I was concerned i earned those spots. I was giving my equipment, van, And experience for next to nothing money wise. If these other people who wanted these support spots worked one tenth as hard as i did, then they would have had this tour all to them self. I laid into the NOAB booking people. I felt Like they were playing the old music game. OH we did not understand that you were to have those set times! It will be okay just put your tail between your legs and play. You should feel lucky to have these spots. Well fuck them. I was pissed. Of all people I did not think Bambi would let this happen. I was making sure that she saw all the contract transmission between Melt Banana & Smelly. She fully understood my position. But with her gone the slackers fell short. I told them to go to hell. That they could just eat shit. To do the tour with out me. Melt Banana would understand & that those kids would be just as upset as me. It was Rudolph supporting all the California shows or nothing. I told them to move the venues that disagreed. Deanna & John gone wrong. That's right, they did the wrong booking, so it was up to them to straighten it out. They were very fake about their whole appearance in this situation. They really did not care. But I knew that when Bambi got back she would straighten it out. Bambi was back a few days later from Zeni Geva tour. She was beat, tired and wore out. It was all she could do to get through those long American drives. John flew out to Texas to help drive them back. Well what a bunch of tour wimps. At least I made Melt Banana drive or fail. So now Bambi is back and i tried and tried again to contact her. Fax, Phone, E-mail. She ignored all of those communications. At least that is what i thought. She was upstairs working on the itinerary for melt Banana. She finally called me at the late hours of the night. I marched right over to her house and laid it all on the line. Fix this problem or i will walk from the tour. She cried, but more in the way I was violently exploding on her. I was pissed off, betrayed by those who I thought were out to path a new and successful artist booking relationship. Failed. From the time she left to her return I got walked all over by John and Deanna. With all this said I showed them the fax from the Molecules. I stopped my end of the tour and refused to answer my phone. If you want to play I love the play ground. recess time! Bambi cried, Deanna lied, John wanted me fried. The clubs were refusing to participate in this matter. No one would budge. NOAB Booking stood for No Asshole Bullshit or better yet No Andrew Benette Booking. Well everything they started out to be against, they have now become. Other Bands have told me story's of them not returning communications just days before the tour. It figures that they would become everything they hated in booking. For me it was a big let down because Bambi has toured for over 15 years. Of all people she knows what it is like out their. So the politics of ass kissing is not my game. I do not beg, suck up or say that I'm going to be treated in a less then contractual agreement. If anything the Melvins taught me was to be strong and in the end only do what you want to do. After a few days of cold bitter war against NOAB, they changed the situation to Rudolph supporting all the California shows except the first one at the bottom of the hill. Well the Molecules ate their shirts this night anyway. With the war almost over and The loss of Bambi San as my friend, The other two did not matter. I have always disliked the unlikable Deanna. And John the heir to the Levis corporation can just buy his own little punk scene. It was sad to have to fight with people of this stature. but I was not going to back down. Not into a lesser stage plot. I lost Bambi as a friend, lost some club local owners friendship, local bookers & a couple of local bands will never treat me the same. But in the end My contract with Melt Banana was met at 99% of the agreement. It is a sad day today, my bitterness lives on. My anger was to heavy for those involved and I worked so FUCKING hard to make this tour the best it could be. I had nothing left. I really lost it on this tour. besides the fact that I was not going to kiss their ass, say I'm sorry or ever except the fact that they tried to screw me out of a hard earned position. I want to help them in the beginning. I did free web work for NOAB Booking. but after this last call i stood alone. My house fell prey to some legal problems that I can not go into at this time. The tour killed me. The bookers, The friends, The loved ones at home. Everyone was out to protect them self first. After this tour I was alone. What felt like a wonderful friendship in blossom stopped after Melt Banana went back to Japan. Karen hated me and went insane over many different problems. Bambi hated me and Her heart was broken from my belligerent attitude. A few of the PLAINFIELD guys had quit them band while I was gone. It seemed like an old life was ending and a new one was starting. If it were not for ROXANNE then I would have no friends after this tour. (end page 6 - s3.html)