Thanks for the welcome guys!
You wanna hear about Vegas, huh?'
Okay, so we got this last minute gig to headline the House of Blues at the Mandalay Bay Casino for a big Halloween party, performing with one of my favorite bands (and friends of ours) the Spectres. It was great! They flew us down, had a limo pick us up, comped us rooms, drinks, whatever, took us out to Crazy Horse II and comped us there...I was starting to think we'd finally arrived!
So anyway, we start the show. Chaos and I go on first, do a little choreographed traditional burlesque tophat and cane number, ending with flaming pasties. We're backstage changing for our next number, when the promoter's girlfriend comes running back, frantic, saying, "You guys cannot do pasties! They'll shut down the show!" We're pissed. They saw our video, knew exactly what they were booking. What do you mean, NO PASTIES??? Okay, okay, so we agree. The next number didn't go down to pasties, anyway.
So we go out in head to toe black PVC, weilding our whips, and proceed to whip audience members and then go into a full-scale catfight. No pasties. No nudity. Great. We're backstage changing into our hula outfits when the promoter's girlfriend comes flying up to us again. She looks like she's about to have a heart attack.
"That's it, you girls cannot go back out there! I just got a call, and they'll shut the whole show down if you girls so much as step back on stage again!" Apparently the Mandalay Bay management had decided that our catfight was and act of "simulated sex" and been afraid of a hefty quarter million dollar fine!
Meanwhile all the available security apes have come backstage to stand between us and the stage entrance! Several big beefy monkeys to keep two little girls from running amok!
It was a gong show for the rest of the night. John came backstage (while doing a guitar solo) to demand an explanation, and ended up cursing out the management for the rest of the show. The video's pretty funny.
Chaos and I go dressed, she as a nurse, me in my nun outfit, and went to go do the stroll down in FRONT fo the stage. The monkeys followed us, but couldn't do anything since we didn't go on stage. We did the stroll to the final song, finishing off with a general mooning of the room
So we all went out and got plastered at the Double Down. Haven't heard from that promoter since. Last I heard he was mad because he thought I had kissed his girlfriend. Strange...
You wanna hear about Vegas, huh?'
Okay, so we got this last minute gig to headline the House of Blues at the Mandalay Bay Casino for a big Halloween party, performing with one of my favorite bands (and friends of ours) the Spectres. It was great! They flew us down, had a limo pick us up, comped us rooms, drinks, whatever, took us out to Crazy Horse II and comped us there...I was starting to think we'd finally arrived!
So anyway, we start the show. Chaos and I go on first, do a little choreographed traditional burlesque tophat and cane number, ending with flaming pasties. We're backstage changing for our next number, when the promoter's girlfriend comes running back, frantic, saying, "You guys cannot do pasties! They'll shut down the show!" We're pissed. They saw our video, knew exactly what they were booking. What do you mean, NO PASTIES??? Okay, okay, so we agree. The next number didn't go down to pasties, anyway.
So we go out in head to toe black PVC, weilding our whips, and proceed to whip audience members and then go into a full-scale catfight. No pasties. No nudity. Great. We're backstage changing into our hula outfits when the promoter's girlfriend comes flying up to us again. She looks like she's about to have a heart attack.
"That's it, you girls cannot go back out there! I just got a call, and they'll shut the whole show down if you girls so much as step back on stage again!" Apparently the Mandalay Bay management had decided that our catfight was and act of "simulated sex" and been afraid of a hefty quarter million dollar fine!
Meanwhile all the available security apes have come backstage to stand between us and the stage entrance! Several big beefy monkeys to keep two little girls from running amok!
It was a gong show for the rest of the night. John came backstage (while doing a guitar solo) to demand an explanation, and ended up cursing out the management for the rest of the show. The video's pretty funny.
Chaos and I go dressed, she as a nurse, me in my nun outfit, and went to go do the stroll down in FRONT fo the stage. The monkeys followed us, but couldn't do anything since we didn't go on stage. We did the stroll to the final song, finishing off with a general mooning of the room
So we all went out and got plastered at the Double Down. Haven't heard from that promoter since. Last I heard he was mad because he thought I had kissed his girlfriend. Strange...
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But that's not the story I read in the paper. Damn local indie media - a buncha good for nothing idiots. Oh shit, wait a sec...
I love the Mandalay Bay. lol. You could have done it at the Stardust though, that's where BondCon was, and where I went to the Burlesque & Bondage show.. for future reference, maybe.
Jenna