Name: Dave Portnoy Bet on the Boom of EDM
Uploaded: 2023-03-08T18:31:52.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave Portnoy Bet on the Boom of EDM' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-03-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave Portnoy Bet on the Boom of EDM' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-03-08. Transcript available.

we came up with something called the blackout tour which essentially was a dj
playing edm music this
is at the infancy of edm and it exploded like to the point we had i bought all
our own production
you could go to an edm show it looked like ours we had a full crew doing it i
thought and were
you into it were you like doing the pills and everything were you like partying
no we had i i
would we we did three shows a week throughout the country like we had a whole
crew driving around
setting up the lights renting venues um i thought i thought i was gonna become
so rich that i'd be
like bezos and retire we were clearing like 250 grand a show it was nuts and we
weren't paying for
talent so we're charging 50 bucks a ticket selling out literally and it was
just like an edm party show
yes so this crew so you guys were just in boston and this crew is now traveling
doing shows for you
correct like have you ever heard of there's a festival like bamboozle it's a
big festival in
new jersey so the bonnaroo bamboozle is like one of those type things yeah and
we were on a call with
live nation uh i'll never forget this call like we want you to close the last
music they had was
bon jovi they're like we want you to come on after bon jovi and close it like
we'll pay you 250 grand
just to show up and before we could say anything like we know it's not a lot of
money it's cheap
but you'll introduce your music to so many new people and i was like wait wait
we don't have
music what are you talking about there's no one what do you mean you have no
music the only thing
they saw was our ticket sales in their system whenever we put tickets they were
gone in 10
seconds so we like did that turned into a phone thing but but that was because
of the barstool
name again right so you're still like we're just selling edm yeah dude because
where i'm from if
somebody showed up with damn two laser lights and a fucking flood beam dude
people would pay 50
dollars they went nuts for it they went and it was like we had outside of it
like we had avici like
playing our thing for like no money it was before the dj thing took off okay so
so you did actually
have talent coming to the yeah we rotate but we wouldn't pay a lot like we paid
maybe two grand for
avici like it just they it was before the dj boom right then the dj boom
started happening and a couple
things happened we had our name and we're always sort of controversial but if
somebody od
at edm vegas yeah we would be mentioned it'd be like barstool uh blackout tour
part of this and
people would be calling me insurance went through the roof um and news crews
were following like our
production around just looking for controversy so the whole thing as quick as
it came it disappeared so
because of insurance really insurance edm it went from there'd be one edm show
at a college a month
to there were three a week and we were playing avici's music and avici was
going to be
there tomorrow so a whole host of factors and i was investing this is the
gambling part every cent i
made i'm like let's get the next biggest laser let's get this let's get that so
we put it all back in at
the end of the day we're probably net even like we didn't make money we didn't
lose money hope you
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