Allegra said:
Just when I thought this thread would finally die down, THERE'S MORE!!!!!
All right...let's do the math here shall we?
7 to 8 gigs a month, right?
At about $1000 a piece, that equals $7500 per month.
And that's $90,000 a year.
I guess if you take out the taxes, that would equal to his MySpace page amount of $60,000 to $70,000 per year.
Starving artist my ass!
he does NOT make $1000 per appearance. it is more like $250-$500. maybe $1000 if it is a several day event, or maybe that is including their airfare and hotel and food etc that also gets paid for him...
he is very cheap. his money in the bank came from his fathers estate. only since december has pavel paid rent, and thats only $450 a month at that - the last 20 years or so he has lived rent free. when he finally moves back to cali, he will be rent free once again.
greg flamm once said (according to pavel) that if he played with his band, and did it full time, he would make an income of approx 65K a year. that is why he posted it on his myspace.
he probably only has 2-3 PAYING gigs a month right now. like i said, the today show was for free. being on the news is for free. namm was for free. eating breakfast at wherever is for free, and i will put money on little or no tip from him.
so technically, he makes shit for a living. people assume he is working all of the time, but reality is he just wont remove the rose sunglasses etc.
my beef about him claiming to be a starving artist was because he would brag about having all of this money in the bank from his fathers estate, and more coming, yet was too cheap to buy someone else a drink!
once a man in a department store was very kind to give me $15 to cover my bill, as i had a new checking account and they wouldnt take starter checks nor did i have my visa checkcard yet. this touched my heart so much, this simple act of kindness, that i turned around the next day, withdrew $300 from my checking account and bought giftcards for a nearby elementary school to pass out to their needy families - like paying it forward. pavel actually got pissy about this - and said that i dont even KNOW those needy families, yet am giving them hundreds! he further complained that he just had to pay off an $8K CC bill and could really use that $300. he asked me to consider giving HIM the target giftcards.
wow - i dont know anyone else who is starving and begging for charity, yet can afford to pay off an 8k cc bill in one month.
perhaps he gave himself a raise to 1k a gig... perhaps him spending his inheritance galore and the bank is running low...
perhaps he is just a greedy son of a bitch!