Post #4057 by kahukini on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 2:05 PM

oh, kaluageoff was here for friday thru saturday and had to leave this morning... his first time at atlanta tv's - he'll have to report his impressions...

I've had 2 close calls here so far, hopefully no more - but on Friday after wayne had spend hours putting up his amazing set (those massive tiki's sven is talking about were over 20 feet) he went back to the hilton to change and comeback.. they went through 3 taxi drivers, none of whom could find the echo lounge even though it's the most popular venue right in the east altanta entertainment area... i had to go pick him up like 20 mintues away and they missed the first 1.5hrs of the show...

And then I ended up having to use a big tablecloth for sven's screen last night... never having tied a huge tablecloth to bamboo poles before it was a little stressful doing it in front of an audience.. .and then the thing fell down halfway through the lecture... argh!

y'all should have seen the manager at tv's... we warned him all along how big the crowd was going to be but I don't think he really believed us - they had an extra cash bar set up in the back in addition to the main bar in the front, but were still wildly understaffed for the crowd...
i met tons of people who were having tv's drinks for the first time and were amazed (also a little gunshy of the prices) - hopefully tv's will be getting a larger folling in atlanta because of this... it's always been my worry that they'd close because the place is always empty - being in the basement of the hilton in a downtown highrise area where this is no nightlife plus their utter lack of self-promotion means that Hukilau had the odd task of informing many atlantans about the existence of their own trader vic's!