Sunday, December 23, 2007

(part 12) THE OFFICE, THE MEETING, THE END




Tony Alamo

Tony's position was always "Let me do the dirty work and the business." He kept me away from everything by playing to my one true weakness, which was, "You are the star. You are untouchable. I'll deal with these people, because I know how they think and what they want." I pretty much went along with believing I was a star. He never told me anything about what he was doing when I wasn't around, and I was too inexperienced at the time to demand that kind of cooperation from him. It was Tony and me for sure, but with Tony always taking the lead when it came to deals and money. But the day came when one of Tony's deals required my willing participation with him to accomplish it.

Tony set up a meeting in Beverly Hills with an investor and he told me I had to go with him and meet the guy. I agreed to go not suspecting that my entire world would be turned upside down by the end of that particular day. Prior to the actual meeting I have no recollection of how I got there. I don't remember whether I went with Tony or met him there. I recall vividly being with Tony as we entered the building where the meeting took place. It was on a corner, south of Wilshire Blvd., but I don't recall the exact streets. There was a set of steps going in maybe 3 or 4 steps to the entrance. No one was with us when we went into the office and no one, but the person we were meeting was there when we met him.

The three of us were the only ones there. The man was kind of short, a little overweight and balding. He was friendly and smoking a cigar. He appeared to be jewish, and I don't mean this in a belittling way, he just appeared to be a jewish guy from Beverly Hills, pretty typical. His office was pleasant, but not lavish. It was one large room maybe 40 by 25 feet. At the far end of the room was a desk and chair where the man went, sat down, and faced us. I don't remember if the Billboard ads were up on the wall, but it's possible.

I stayed at the opposite end of the room and sat in a chair a few feet from where we came in. I didn't know what to do so I just sat there trying to look like a star. Tony stood in the middle of the room between the man's desk and my chair. I don't recall what was said, because Tony and the guy were going back and forth for a while. During this exchange Tony took a particular stance in the middle of the room which is hard to explain without sounding like I'm joking, which I'm not, but it kind of looked like a bad impersonation of Elvis Presley.

Tony stretched out one arm and pointed at me and uttered out loud "That is Jesus Christ and if you," now pointing his other arm and finger at the guy, "do not give him $50,000 he will point his finger at you and you will die!" I looked over at the man just in time to see that his face looked frozen. His jaw fell open and his cigar just kind of rolled out onto his desk. Other than that he didn't move a muscle, but stared at Tony in disbelief, who was still standing with his arms stretched out in the middle of the room.

I could not believe what was happening. I had no way of knowing this was coming, and had no way of dealing with it now that it was here. I remember staring at the floor trying to decide what to do. I just stood up, didn't say anything, and walked out the door as fast as I could. I reached the sidewalk and kind of walked around in little circles hoping that Tony would come out and tell me it was all a joke and that everything was OK. In a few minutes Tony did come out the door and down the steps toward me. "Why did you say that Tony," I pleaded, and stood waiting for some rational explanation to what I had just witnessed. "Because it's the truth," he said, looking right at me. I stared at him in a second wave of disbelief and was devastated by his response, knowing fully at that moment my world had just ended. "No it isn't Tony, no it isn't."

6 comments:

  1. Bobby my name is Michael and I was a member of that outfit.
    I posted part 9) on our site and I hope you do not mind. I did this for the for the reason that we have critical facts that others must recognize. I doubt any serious trouble will come your way from Tony Alamo because your story.
    He slanders us because of what we are doing. Calls us pervert or slut and it is so ridiculous. We have been under fire just because we want him to stop his madness. That is all. I'm in the open also. If they are wise they will leave me alone. I'll just design web sites of my own to expose this man. One thing that has more importance is sobriety. You have long term sobriety and you can handle your life better than Tony ever will. Alamo has no sobriety at all. Maybe an open intervention will help. He may be an unfortunate. Fighting(finding) pople, places, and things is Tony's sick profession. Humanitarian gestures are not part of Tony's Kabala and I think he is too far gone. That stuff he pulled with you was nonsense.This is a time of renewal for you and us also. Tony plays the big bad wolf these days. He tells people they are going to die and if they are in hell or not. I mean come on. He was pulling a crazy ruse and had you in a crazy plan of his. I'm sure you know this. He succeeded with Susan Alamo. It was a marriage of convenience perhaps. He has stated that he hates women. What that is about I really do not know. But he idolized her and himself. His wife Susan who he knew was his promotion.

    Again, thank you for your story. I'm behind you all the way.

    Michael C. Andrews.

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  2. Bobby,

    The first thing Tony will say is that you are disgruntled.

    After a while he will say you are part of the worldwide conspiracy against him.

    Merry Christmas,
    Tom Alford

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  3. So Bobby, great story. Great to hear about the 'old days'.
    Nothing mysterious about this account though. We who were there in 1969ish remember this type of Tony Alamo.
    I'm sorry for what he put you through and I just wanted you to know I for one believe this happened to you.
    It is not, however, very unremarkable considering what our "Collective Recall" of the Sham Man is.

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  4. I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and thank those who took time to comment on this particular part. It has always been strange for me to recall it, because I just couldn't explain it to myself.

    Bobby Jameson

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  5. Comment to Factnet,
    I see that the story of me jumping off tall structures is a topic so I thought I'd say something about it.Tony had nothing to do with it other than he was one of the people who never paid me. He was not the only one and after years of making records and not getting paid I became suicidal and attempted to kill myself on many different occasions. I jumped off a tower on top of the Pacific Theater on Hollywood Blvd. and broke all the bones in both feet and crushed my left ankle. I have also been pronounced dead twice from drug overdoses.
    I have now been clean and sober for 31 years. On 2 other occasions I was on the 11th and 12th story ledge of the Continental Hyatt House on the Sunset Strip. I did not jump from their on either occasion.

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  6. Bobby,

    I've never heard of you before, but was startled by your account of Tony.

    You see, I was born there. I lived there until I was nineteen years old. I had no idea he was that way before the Foundation got going. It's very unsettling.

    It changes alot of things...

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