Richie
Takes a gentleman to admit he's wrong. Apology accepted.
For the future (bit of drunken advice): Think before you spink.
R.I.P
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~The Artist etc.
Re: R.I.P
Well said Remington.Jim deserves to make a few quid,as does your
good self.It may not sing and dance,but money talks(sorry Neil).Remington Steel wrote:
>
> A lot of short stories in Rock & Roll and likewise in the
> porn industry. Jim and I first started working together when
> he was just a clean shaved young innocent from Glasgow, I
> think that?s what?s called an oxymoron but you get the idea.
> Together we made a number of very successful films, the
> precursor of the fly on the wall and all the flashing stuff
> was an innocent little thing called Home Town Girls, this
> just involved loads of pretty girls travelling around the
> country stripping and flashing in public, all in the best
> possible taste. This title added to our collection of quite
> nice programs that would not offend your old Gran and sold
> without too many problems. In those days there was a shortage
> of material and a shortage of producers so maybe we had a
> chance where today we might not have got a look in.
>
> From there we went onto the hardcore material, producing for
> the likes of Sarah Young and others and meeting a different
> type of person. We also crossed the path of the great Berth
> Milton again. (Father not Son). I had worked with him years
> ago shooting still sets for Private and suffering quite a lot
> of hardship because of this. At our meeting at his villa in
> Spain where at that time he had Uncle Ernie working for him!
> He told us to Fuck off out of his house, but could we leave
> the sample video we, at his request, had brought for him.
> Even a Swede could understand the reply!
> I give this as an illustration into the kind of people there
> are about in this industry. You have the likes of the polite
> Hans Moser & Dirk Rotermund at one end and at the other!!!
> I also at that time made the first of the Fuck Truck series,
> called then ?The Bonk Mobile? . Jim went on to take this
> series from strength to strength. It is one of those projects
> that deserve to be carried on and I would love to be involved
> in that. From a potted history to the present. We can?t hope
> for things to stay the same. Porn in the UK is now the giant
> business it always has been in the rest of the world and
> those business ethics are the norm. If a producer of glass
> widgets gets beaten down on price why should not the porno
> producer suffer the same fate? The shortsighted won?t have
> noticed that the quality of the widgets is now piss poor and
> that they are paying more for them from less suppliers. That
> the porno industry in the UK is ruled over by a mere handful
> of people is just a mirror image of the rest of the
> industrialised world. Global Porno Ltd. is just around the
> corner!
> As for Jim, well he may be a bit down, I myself don?t believe
> that, I have NEVER seen him down. Years ago he came up with
> the best idea he had ever had, it was not because he wanted
> to earn a load of money, he just had to satisfy some
> authority or other that he was of good character, What I hear
> you say, why have to prove this, our Jim, some mistake! He
> came up with a mad idea that would undoubtedly have put him
> into the good books, might even have been Sir Jim now. (If he
> wants to tell the world about it he will or you can read it
> in my memoirs, out soon at an exorbitant price). That he did
> not go down that well beaten track to fame and fortune owes
> more to his love of the sex business and less to his business
> acumen. There by hangs a tail. We are porno producers, we are
> not always the best at marketing ourselves, and we need help
> from those who have this expertise. Had Jim been able to
> employ a good marketing man things may have ended different?
> He will remember the marketing genius I employed at Strand in
> the early days. He has since found religion and will not work
> in the industry, so maybe there is a moral somewhere.
> Others of us have been where Jim is. See an earlier post
> when I had to sell all my original titles for a piddling sum.
> I was in the same situation, I could produce but my marketing
> was not so hot. Even those who do have great marketing
> ability can come to grief in this business. The great Hans
> Moser, again top producer but also good marketing man but
> can?t fight against the incoming tide of mediocrity. (He is
> still there and still fighting). While we as customers want
> more for less, and while we are prepared to accept second and
> third best things will continue to get worse. You as the
> consumer of porn will just get more of the dross that is
> being turned out by the never-ending proliferation of just
> out of school porno producers. Does anyone seriously watch
> the crap spewed out from our British satellite porn stations?
> Makes you cry.
>
> Ahh well. Good luck mate, if you need any help call, but
> mainly don?t let the bastards beat you.
good self.It may not sing and dance,but money talks(sorry Neil).Remington Steel wrote:
>
> A lot of short stories in Rock & Roll and likewise in the
> porn industry. Jim and I first started working together when
> he was just a clean shaved young innocent from Glasgow, I
> think that?s what?s called an oxymoron but you get the idea.
> Together we made a number of very successful films, the
> precursor of the fly on the wall and all the flashing stuff
> was an innocent little thing called Home Town Girls, this
> just involved loads of pretty girls travelling around the
> country stripping and flashing in public, all in the best
> possible taste. This title added to our collection of quite
> nice programs that would not offend your old Gran and sold
> without too many problems. In those days there was a shortage
> of material and a shortage of producers so maybe we had a
> chance where today we might not have got a look in.
>
> From there we went onto the hardcore material, producing for
> the likes of Sarah Young and others and meeting a different
> type of person. We also crossed the path of the great Berth
> Milton again. (Father not Son). I had worked with him years
> ago shooting still sets for Private and suffering quite a lot
> of hardship because of this. At our meeting at his villa in
> Spain where at that time he had Uncle Ernie working for him!
> He told us to Fuck off out of his house, but could we leave
> the sample video we, at his request, had brought for him.
> Even a Swede could understand the reply!
> I give this as an illustration into the kind of people there
> are about in this industry. You have the likes of the polite
> Hans Moser & Dirk Rotermund at one end and at the other!!!
> I also at that time made the first of the Fuck Truck series,
> called then ?The Bonk Mobile? . Jim went on to take this
> series from strength to strength. It is one of those projects
> that deserve to be carried on and I would love to be involved
> in that. From a potted history to the present. We can?t hope
> for things to stay the same. Porn in the UK is now the giant
> business it always has been in the rest of the world and
> those business ethics are the norm. If a producer of glass
> widgets gets beaten down on price why should not the porno
> producer suffer the same fate? The shortsighted won?t have
> noticed that the quality of the widgets is now piss poor and
> that they are paying more for them from less suppliers. That
> the porno industry in the UK is ruled over by a mere handful
> of people is just a mirror image of the rest of the
> industrialised world. Global Porno Ltd. is just around the
> corner!
> As for Jim, well he may be a bit down, I myself don?t believe
> that, I have NEVER seen him down. Years ago he came up with
> the best idea he had ever had, it was not because he wanted
> to earn a load of money, he just had to satisfy some
> authority or other that he was of good character, What I hear
> you say, why have to prove this, our Jim, some mistake! He
> came up with a mad idea that would undoubtedly have put him
> into the good books, might even have been Sir Jim now. (If he
> wants to tell the world about it he will or you can read it
> in my memoirs, out soon at an exorbitant price). That he did
> not go down that well beaten track to fame and fortune owes
> more to his love of the sex business and less to his business
> acumen. There by hangs a tail. We are porno producers, we are
> not always the best at marketing ourselves, and we need help
> from those who have this expertise. Had Jim been able to
> employ a good marketing man things may have ended different?
> He will remember the marketing genius I employed at Strand in
> the early days. He has since found religion and will not work
> in the industry, so maybe there is a moral somewhere.
> Others of us have been where Jim is. See an earlier post
> when I had to sell all my original titles for a piddling sum.
> I was in the same situation, I could produce but my marketing
> was not so hot. Even those who do have great marketing
> ability can come to grief in this business. The great Hans
> Moser, again top producer but also good marketing man but
> can?t fight against the incoming tide of mediocrity. (He is
> still there and still fighting). While we as customers want
> more for less, and while we are prepared to accept second and
> third best things will continue to get worse. You as the
> consumer of porn will just get more of the dross that is
> being turned out by the never-ending proliferation of just
> out of school porno producers. Does anyone seriously watch
> the crap spewed out from our British satellite porn stations?
> Makes you cry.
>
> Ahh well. Good luck mate, if you need any help call, but
> mainly don?t let the bastards beat you.