Mister Berg, you hypnotize me... - By N.L. Belardes
Just got this email in from an interesting entertainer who has the uncanny ability to hypnotize folks. Apparently the reader has been reading those dastardly Voyages of Nate Berg... read on:
Thanks for posting the writing by Nate Berg. How terribly revealing. It
was so wierd to read those words, how can anyone be proud of that? What
it revealed to Me was how right my "Gut Feeling" was about that person.
A few years back, I got a gig at a restaraunt/bar/nightclub doing
hypnosis shows. I eventually settled into a weekly gig doing shows every
Saturday night at 1:30 AM. The bar owners' name was Sergio, a great guy,
and He liked Me and my Act. He liked having Me do shows at that hour as
a way to provide entertainment variety as well as a distracton to the
dancing crowds so that the waitresses could scoop up the drinks and
glasses and make it easier to roll the crowds out.
Now, for a hypnotist this was one of the most challenging environments
I could get into. Imagine My coming out into a crowd of 200-300 people
dancing, the music stops, shouting "All eyes on ME!". Me being the only
white guy in the club, by the way! I would start my show with people
trying to mess me up, making disruptive noises, etc. Well, by the end of
the night, I usually managed to have everyone howling and laughing, as
well as being amazed at what they saw. That was experience you just
couldn't BUY! Fairs? Schools? Pfft... like ducks in a barrel!
But I digress.
When I got the gig,I had a month or so to get ready, so I wanted to do
some shows somewhere else where I could "get into shape" for this gig.
I asked Nate for a slot between a couple of bands to work out some
material. Nate gave Me a Friday or Sat (I have it on a flyer around here
somewhere) and I was billed as "The Punk Rock Hypnotist". I told Him
that all I needed was 10 chairs. No problem, He said.
I saw Nate while out and about the next week at the Marketplace (Him
being a dick to a waitress, BTW) when a few minutes later, a guy He was
with called out to Me "So You're some Hypnotist, huh? Hey, let's see if
You can hypnotise Me." all in a very confrontational way. This was
while Nate was standing next to this guy. I said nothing, and just hung
with my friends. But... a mental note was made.
When I arrived to prep for the show, Nate was very passive aggressive
in His attitude towards Me. No chairs, "Just go upstairs and get some".
Of course there were only 5 or 6 chairs upstairs and people were
sitting on them. I left. To this day, including 20 years of playing in bands,
that was the only time I have ever missed a gig.
Thanks for posting the writing by Nate Berg. How terribly revealing. It
was so wierd to read those words, how can anyone be proud of that? What
it revealed to Me was how right my "Gut Feeling" was about that person.
A few years back, I got a gig at a restaraunt/bar/nightclub doing
hypnosis shows. I eventually settled into a weekly gig doing shows every
Saturday night at 1:30 AM. The bar owners' name was Sergio, a great guy,
and He liked Me and my Act. He liked having Me do shows at that hour as
a way to provide entertainment variety as well as a distracton to the
dancing crowds so that the waitresses could scoop up the drinks and
glasses and make it easier to roll the crowds out.
Now, for a hypnotist this was one of the most challenging environments
I could get into. Imagine My coming out into a crowd of 200-300 people
dancing, the music stops, shouting "All eyes on ME!". Me being the only
white guy in the club, by the way! I would start my show with people
trying to mess me up, making disruptive noises, etc. Well, by the end of
the night, I usually managed to have everyone howling and laughing, as
well as being amazed at what they saw. That was experience you just
couldn't BUY! Fairs? Schools? Pfft... like ducks in a barrel!
But I digress.
When I got the gig,I had a month or so to get ready, so I wanted to do
some shows somewhere else where I could "get into shape" for this gig.
I asked Nate for a slot between a couple of bands to work out some
material. Nate gave Me a Friday or Sat (I have it on a flyer around here
somewhere) and I was billed as "The Punk Rock Hypnotist". I told Him
that all I needed was 10 chairs. No problem, He said.
I saw Nate while out and about the next week at the Marketplace (Him
being a dick to a waitress, BTW) when a few minutes later, a guy He was
with called out to Me "So You're some Hypnotist, huh? Hey, let's see if
You can hypnotise Me." all in a very confrontational way. This was
while Nate was standing next to this guy. I said nothing, and just hung
with my friends. But... a mental note was made.
When I arrived to prep for the show, Nate was very passive aggressive
in His attitude towards Me. No chairs, "Just go upstairs and get some".
Of course there were only 5 or 6 chairs upstairs and people were
sitting on them. I left. To this day, including 20 years of playing in bands,
that was the only time I have ever missed a gig.
This entry was posted by N.L. Belardes, on
Monday, October 17, 2005.
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