The convention's attendance more than doubled this year to accommodate more than 2500 people, around a quarter of which were musicians. The focus of this convention was shifted more towards the development of new artists within the metal scene, emphasizing the growth and nurturing of the style. This was a week when three metal albums (by Skid Row, Mötley Crüe and Warrant) dominated Billboard's Top Pop Albums chart.
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Decline of Western Civilization)Ī two disc compilation cd was available free of charge to those attending the event, showcasing bands that Concrete was working with.įoundations Forum 89 took place from September 21–23 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles. Jim Cardillo (Managing Director Foundations Forum '88)Īndy Somers (Frontier Booking International) The Keynote speaker for the event was Sharon Osbourne and it incorporated parties in honor of RIP Magazine's second anniversary and Concrete's fourth. The theme of FF88 was the credibility and respectability of metal within the music industry as a whole. On September 30 – October 1 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles, Concrete Marketing, Metal Blade Records and RIP Magazine joined forces to create the first annual Foundations Forum convention. There were also plenty of performances all weekend of the best signed and unsigned talent the heavy metal world had to offer, over the years including bands like Judas Priest, Pantera, Alice in Chains, Extreme, Ozzy Osbourne and Prong.ĬD Samplers of signed and unsigned artists were distributed to each forum attendee There would be panels and workshops made up of industry personnel particular to the theme who would discuss contemporary issues and answer questions. The forums usually invited a keynote speaker who would open the event and touch on important themes for the weekend ahead. By sitting down and talking about the genre, the good and the bad points, having the indies interacting with the majors, it makes for a healthy industry in general." "The way heavy metal is growing, we want to be careful not to have it blow out.
Realizing there was little or no attention or focus on this growing market, and having seen the far reaching distribution of the trade magazine, they decided to put together an annual meeting, bringing together key industry personnel, vendors and artists (and in later forums fans as well) offering advice on surviving the industry, discussing the changing climate of the scene and business, and allowing people to network.Įxecutive Director Bob Chiappardi summed up the purpose of the Forum, The convention was set up by Concrete Marketing who had in January 1988 created the first industry trade magazine for the heavy metal world – Foundations. ( November 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įoundations Forum was the first exclusively heavy metal music industry convention, held annually from 1988 to 1997 in Los Angeles. Please help improve this article if you can. (Lika, this was one of the true stories.This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. His old Scout hooked Jun up with an alumni association of the University of San José Recoletos, and the alumni helped Jun financially with his scouting endeavors in Cebu. Scouting has some of the best educatiional programs around (including remedial reading).
Scouting is a lot more than hiking, camping, tying knots, and helping old ladies cross the street. Jun said that when the American Consulate saw the letters, the staff could not grant his visa quickly enough. A scoutmaster in Los Angeles had great success doing the same in an LA County juvenile hall, but he had just died.
Jun ran a boy scout troop in the Cebu Jail. At least at that time, there were no custody facilities for juveniles in the Philippines. When he wanted to go to the USA many years ago, I got for him letters of invitation from the Los Angeles Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the Los Angeles County Probation Department. And then I said, "Do you mean Sergio Damazo Jr?" I thought the father was going to have a stroke! How could I possibly know his scoutmaster? Well, Jun (short for Junior) and I are old friends. "From the Philippines." (Dumb American! What could you know about my country?)įinally he gave up and said he was from Cebu, adding that he had been a Scout there and his scoutmaster had been Mr. Years ago at a Cub Scout meeting, one of the fathers said something about the PI (Philippine Islands). Chimarrão is what makes me so handsome and personable. It will put lead in your pencil but you have to have someone to write to. Due to the tropical sun and the amazing amount of coconut milk consumed by the dwellers of Luzon, the final "n" of words following a vowel has a hard sound, much like the English "d".ĭon´t go bad mouthing chimarrão. CR, no, the word is "spoked", not "spoken".
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