Scott Osman: Bottle Service Ruined Nightlife
Scott Osman: Bottle Service Ruined Nightlife
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In an interview with nightlife king Steve Lewis, Scott Osman Breaks it down:
Steve Lewis: What do you think of the club scene in New York City right now?
Scott Osman: I think it sucks. The whole bottle service thing ruined nightlife. After my experience at Marquee, I was dumbfounded. I’m sitting there running lights (and there’s no fog machine because of the new requirements for the fire protection system) and there are all these people who feel so entitled. We had 1,000 kids at N.A.S.A every week, and no one ever caused a fight—different people from different backgrounds getting together and nobody fought—and these people go out and they think they’re extra special because they’ve got a bottle. But aside from the bottle service problem, the other issue relating to why things are a little slower now is that you have these DJ agents, like Paul Morris from AM Only, and they literally would take these DJs out of our rave scene that were getting paid like $500 to $1,000, and they would add zeroes. Managers are obviously going to promote the artists as best as they can, but in doing so, they shot themselves in their own feet. It’s simple math. My friends, Scott Henry, all of them—they’re making a lot of money, they have nice houses, and that’s fine for them—but at the same time, they out price themselves out of the rave market. Plus, the raves are getting busted, and you have to move the DJs into the clubs, and the clubs could afford to pay the deposits, so the supply and the demand kept up, but it just changed the industry, and so it killed the rave scene in a way. If you’re a DJ, it all boils down to whether can you pull 100 people into a club, and then get paid. That’s just supply and demand … its like battle of the bands. You have to bring people.
Also:
Steve Lewis: So you started out as a tech person in the club and picked up information as you went along that eventually helped you to become an owner?
Scott Osman: Yeah, I was producing parties to help promote my light shows, and it was a symbiotic relationship. And then N.A.S.A. was obviously in the movie Kids—Chloe Sevigny was my coat-check door girl and Harmony Korine would come there and Harold Hunter, and all the other Kids.
Steve Lewis: Harold Hunter was an actor in Kids and he passed away a couple years ago.
Scott Osman: I actually saw Leonardo DiCaprio at the Inaugural Ball, and I brought it up. I asked him if he went to Harold’s funeral because he knew Harold from that whole little circle, but he was really busy looking for his cufflinks that he had dropped, so he couldn’t really talk to me.
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I agree. Bottle Service sucks. Especially since I was the first to diss it on Wax Here: Bottle Service: America’s Nightlife Nightmare.
Lets get back to the days of Beans and all night gigs with mad fly girls, i.e. Miami Beach circa 1997.
Harold Hunter Rest in Peace, who I met through my main man Sheffey.
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