I love and support local music, so I think it’s only appropriate to repost such a disgusting practice happening within the local scene. These are posts from notoscum.org and filipinometal.com:

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If you are a real musician who knows the value of your music, you won’t stoop down to these productions. No band in their right mind should pay to play. Or support anything related to it. It will DEFINITELY kill your scene.

Do you know what happens when money talks? Integrity gets fucked from behind.

This disgusting practice of forcing bands pay to play by lazy, no-good productions has been going on for ages and it’s getting worse. It’s time to make your stand. Fence sitting is for morons. It is time to draw the line. This is corruption for the music scene. These are productions that are corrupt and give bad impressions to the bands who want to join our industry. Good productions are getting slapped in their faces even if the good ones do it for the sake of music, for the sake of keeping pinoy music alive. It is time to put a stop to it.

Don’t be IGNORANT.
Don’t be STUPID.
Don’t be a “willing” VICTIM

NEVER COMPROMISE. CHOOSE INTEGRITY.

SCUM LIST

Samahang Musikero Pilipinas
GC Production
Sebastian Bach
Mysister prod
Chupacabra Productions
Chupachupssayo prod
Stellar Productions
Muddslide
Raven Productions
8 Days A Week Prod
Creed of Rock
Zero Quality Productions
Skylights Prod
Bloodline Prod
Partipipol productions
Looselost Production
Langgam
RR Prod
Sexkarma
Whores and B1tch3s
Massive Productions
JOC TV
Obscene Skies Production
Miasmatic Prod
Penchut
turqoise
Craftscene
DVD Productions
Bloodworks Prod
Loveless Orgy
Northern Lights
Kunware Prod
Alumshala
Mastermind Prod
Caution Production
Black Mass Prod
Jailbait
Starry Nights Productions
B1tchgodess
Undercover Prod
Kalabog Flywood Productions
Twinkle Tinkerbelle Productions
Syndrome Productions
3rd Day Productions (now Diary Of Dead Production)
Babybong Productions
Lafs Production
Midnight Clover
Totnak Productions
Blowjob Productions
Scratchpepper Productions
Isohel Productions
Deadly Paradise Productions
Sanctum Production
A Rocks Production
Vodegha Production
Dirty Dana Production
Flower Duet Production
3rd Day Production
Segue Production
Four Aces Production
1Up Production
Indo Productions
iStar Production
Soltera Production
Against the Flow Production
Andis Production
Plagues Productions
Ember Productions
Deadly Paradise Production
Cast of Clowns Production
Red light production
Southern Accent Production
Ember Productions
Jam2One productions
Antala Production
Jamstreet Production
Sameline Productions
Underground Dogmatism
Mascot Production
3J Production
Happy Pain Production
Mulestia Production
Last Update: April 17 2009

When was it ever right to exploit the smaller guy just because you are lazy to work your ass off?

The LIST before you is a testament of how some people have a twisted sense of WORK. They gather a few of their friends and put up a gig without any preparation. No capital? No problem. Like thieves, they unashamedly coerce upstarts and veterans alike to give them money so they don’t have to work for it. Talk about getting the cake and eating it too. They pose for Myspace and Friendster pictures to show off how tight their new bangs are while the bands they meet in these social networking sites and forums—who in turn risk their lives at night and spend for their own instruments, transportation, and food — fork out their last Centavo so they could fucking play 2 songs, 3 if they are lucky, in a gig without compensation, where 30+ bands are lined up for the night. With no remorse, some of these productions act self righteous as if they are helping the scene without acknowledging the fact that what they are doing is wrong no matter how anyone looks at it. They are armed with lame excuses and corrupted insights. They don’t WORK. They make the bands do ALL the WORK from advertising to selling tickets. They will make you pay through the different scams they have set before you play. Pay to play? It is time to flip your middle finger in front of their faces.

These unscrupulous productions leech on hard working musicians so they can sit pretty and not lift their asses. Productions produce. Musicians play music. Plain and simple. It was never the musician’s job to give the production the money they should have in the first place.

These producers don’t just make you pay, they’ll even force you to bring your guests right there and then so your guests can chug the beer and cover the producer’s bar guarantee. Some even will make you sell tickets. If you can’t sell them, you can always pay for them through G-cash, E-load or bank transfer. Some sell membership cards that will lessen your remittance balance the next time you play. Smart monkeys they are.

Most of the people in the list are young and misinformed but have the capacity to change. While some, are old enough to know better. The others in the list sadly are also musicians who betray the trust of fellow musicians. The more thick faced will change their names so they can continue to exploit other hungry young musicians. Know that they still own the faces that are rightfully shamed by the musicians who have been exploited by their ways, and by the scene who has been forewarned and armed by this effort.

Our solidarity across all scenes apart from ours remains strong. Unite to kill as one…against those who use our own unique cultures and expressions for their own ends. We urge all musicians to stand their ground and boycott all the productions listed. This list will go on. When someone walks the right path, their names will be erased. We are hoping that few will remain. Contact us, if you seek to add to the list.

The scene doesn’t need all these scum.

- Filipinometal.com