WMC 09 RECAPITULATION PART 1- Power Of Love Productions

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WMC 09 Recapitulations

This Year WMC was definitely different than the past 24 years…
This year it all started with the preparations, which were way more difficult than years before…
It was due mostly venue owners try to bargain each and every event, and to opt for the most lucrative deals…

What conducted, to have diverse venue canceling the signed agreement in the last minute, or simply changing the signed agreement by suddenly demanding horrent sums
Of money for venue rentals and all…

Besides the City’s special event permit cost were more costly then in the past, even so by
Obtaining these permits, we were still bothered by the code enforcer, to lower volumes and all…

What has “hostage Negotiator” to do with WMC 09?
That would have been never a question, nor would I have any Idea that this question could be ever asked, here what we experienced with it…

‘It’s 130pm and Mike Agentx Clark DJ-Producer-Remixer from Detroit,
staying at my place, and my wife, Sofia (her 2 years old girl) and myself were on our way to a gig…
Being late, and caught in mid day traffic we were coming from 41street to SouthBeach, driving on Pine tree drive…
We were in a hurry, and we were following the rest of traffic, and so we totally omitted, to see that we were actually driving 30 miles/hour in the Schoolzone,
I mean since we were following the traffic all were driving that speed…

Now out of nowhere a White SUV showed behind us with blinking light and siren…we’re surprised and stopped the car.
That’s when all got scary and surreal…

The Agent appearing from the SUV came out by pointing the GUN towards us by yelling to show my hands…
I’m totally scandalized by seeing the gun, and seeing the black T-Shirt with the inscription “Hostage Negotiator” wearing Agent…

I couldn’t comprehend what was going on and I was implying him to lower the gun, since we have a little child in the car and my wife…besides Mike AgentX Clark.

Obviously he followed us and had seen us changing lanes without signalizations and we passed in front of his car, so the agent felt we had a suspicious behavior….

After several times asking the agent to lower his gun, and apology for our ‘reckless’ driving style (we were late for a gig) he finally lowered the gun and let us finally go…
My DJ friend, my wife and I were numb; we couldn’t believe this just happened…
Our Question was why this was all happening, was it because my friend and I are both over 6ft tall and we’re also both afro American with dreadlocks..?

What was the deal that this agent of “HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION” unit felt aggressed by us???
By having a colored President, this becomes almost a joke, with scary certainty, that obviously we have some new “Anti-Terror” Units here on the Beach which will not hesitate to pull a gun out for speeding…????

What kind of “Hostage” Situation was there, that he felt compelled to do that, and how good are those men trained to deal these extreme situations…?

So I repeat the questions again…What has “Hostage Negociator”
to do with WMC 09…?

The Answer is nothing except they forgot that it was WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE and not a TERROR facilitating Middle East – Summit!

So please Mayor Matti Herrera Bower, please make sure our community is safe, as well safe from those which supposed to protect us and not threatening us citizens.

Said that let’s go into the passed week’s frenesia of events, DJ’s, Performers and artists…
It’s Tuesday morning and the WMC 09 officially started and as most I was surprised of the sparse WMC attendance…what was happening?
No one was really sure, but definitely the actual economy was forcing a lot of artists and DJ’s, to waive the WMC and Miami.
Especially by passing at the registrations, I was surprised to find an almost empty registrations room and my WMC 09 Badge was handed to me 10 minutes after I registered.
In 13 years of Winter Music Conference, I’ve had never been served as fast!
To say, that was a sure sign, that it would be definitely not as packed as maybe we all hoped…

Check-out the rest in post WMC 09 RECAP Part 2