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    Last Wednesday I did an Amateur Night and the experience was just so damn awful it was hilarious. I left laughing because I was just so glad to be out of there! It's a funny story so I'll share it...

    I show up, sign in, etc. and I'm told to sit around the club (not the dressing room) and wait. So I did, for a little over an hour. They promise me that I'll have about 20 minutes or so to get ready. Fine; I did my makeup and hair before I got there so all I need to do before going on is touchups. I offer the DJ the CD I brought and he says I don't get to pick my own music! WTF? He asked what kind I like and I told him classic rock. So.

    They finally call the contestants to the back; there are six of us. ALL of them, except me, have been dancing for years upon years. So of course they tell me that *I* have to go on first. They tell us the rules: you get one song, you have to be naked by the end of that song, and you can be disqualified if you're not onstage right away whenever they tell you to go on.

    So since I'm first, it turns out that I have FIVE MINUTES to get ready. I go out there and notice that the stage is built in three tiers (nice to navigate in heels) and the pole, for some reason, is off to the side by the tiprail - about SIX INCHES from the tiprail, so I have no room whatsoever to do any polework. I shrug it off and start to dance anyway - to FREEBIRD. WTF?! I'm supposed to look sexy dancing to FREEBIRD?!

    So Freebird finally ends. I was told we have to go in the back and get dressed before we can collect our tips, so I pick up my dress and panties and head backstage. The manager is there and he says, "Oh, we changed it, you have to do two songs now. Go back out, we'll play something for you." So I turn around and head back out there, already buck naked, and they play some sloooooow horrible song with no beat whatsoever. I absolutely could not dance to it. Finally it's over so I go back to get dressed... and the next girl's song starts before I can collect my tips! So I didn't get a single penny for the whole thing.

    After everyone's gone, they bring us all out to dance for a song. I head out there when they tell me to, but no one else bothers. So I'm looking around confused and all the guys are like, "WTF is she doing back out here again?" Finally the other girls come out and dance, but again, I get no tips.

    So then we all have to go out in a lineup so the guys can vote. Once again, I'm the only one who bothers to go onstage on time. So once again, I look like a total wanker. I was really glad when they announced the two of us who weren't winning anything, so I could dressed and get out of there.

    It was absolutely the show from hell. I swear it's hilarious how bad I was! At least it was at a club I didn't care about, although it sure wasn't worth the schlep to Inglewood and back. Still, a funny story.

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    3 Tiered stage? FREEBIRD wtf is that? OMG what a night from hell. That was a good story for my still morning. LOL Cant believed they shoved you out there a 2nd time when it was still your 1st set...'oh we changed it'.
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    I know, WTF? I realized about 10 seconds into "Freebird" that this was going to be the worst performance of my life, so I just stumbled around laughing and went with it. It was so bloody awful, there wasn't even any point being pissed about it.

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    Aw, you poor thing. My first & only stage audition was crashed by a bi-curious dancer- she got up and started giving me tips halfway through the set. I looked freaked out, like, I know you mean well, but I'm trying to knock it out of the ballpark here.....She was a sweetheart though, so no hard feelings.
    This tale just proves that the problem with SCs today is shoddy management.....
    Last edited by madmaxine; 11-28-2005 at 03:38 PM. Reason: TypoTypoTypo

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    Amen and amen. The club I just quit was a great club until the good managers quit, and of course it tanked the same week they left. And then all the good dancers quit (and a bunch of the mediocre ones, self included!)... I'll be surprised if they're still open this time next year. If they are, they will be another extras skankhouse.

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    So, where was the Amateur Night From Hell held?

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    Jet Strip, near LAX.

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    What qualifies one as an ameteur?
    So sexy almost evil






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    Holy Shit! Freebird? Fucking Freebird? I can't believe a DJ would play that to begin with, but for an amateur night/audition? It would piss me right off if I was told that I couldn't pick my own music. Any place I'd ever worked (granted, I've only had to audition at one of them), you could give the DJ song suggestions, or flat-out tell them what you wanted. That's freaking insane.

    Sorry you had such a terrible experience, Yekhefah. That place sounds like one that doesn't deserve you anyway. Find a place that does.

    DS.. Honestly, if you go by a club's "Amateur Night" definition of an amateur, it's basically a dancer from another club who's keeping her options open. Very rarely is anyone in such a contest a true amateur (someone who has no dancing experience whatsoever).

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    Jet Strip... I knew it....I visited that club in the daytime once...SCARY....dont even worry about it...lame!!!! Only club worth its spit in Inglewood is Bare Elegance.....ok, maybe that's harsh, maybe the night time girls are hot, who knows....but...I wasnt impressed the time I went and I stayed for about 2hrs....
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    Isn't Bare Elegance owned by the same people who own Jet Strip?

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    Oh my god. I amso sorry! Don't let it get you down. There are some nice people in this business who will treat you much better! They're a little harder to find than the jerks, though. I say you go to a new club ASAP, so you can get that horrible experience replaced by a good one!

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    And to think I even gave BE a thought when I wanted to work up north. So glad I didnt! Cant wait to meet ya in Vegas! No more crazy am nights for you girl!
    you live like an ivy vine
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    LOL! I'm looking forward to it too, TigersMilk. All us StripperWeb honeys are going to have to go out for drinks or something that night!

    I'm STILL looking for another club... *sigh*

    All I ask is $500 a week. Seriously, that is NOT much to ask for stripping. Where oh where?

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    Someone here said they did well at the Body Shop in Hollywood. *Sigh* there are soooo many coices but so few good ones. How bout exotic city? Its very different no stage type deal, nude but girls make good money for LA there. www.exoticcityonline.com I know girls who have and still work there. Fritz thats too! I heard is also good if youre willing to drive that far.
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    The review of the Body Shop on this website makes it sound horrible. I should check it out anyway, I guess. Lots of people are going to be doing the Sunset Strip for the holiday season so there should be some traffic there. I've heard good things about Fritz's though. I'm willing to drive any distance if I can make $500 a week after gas!

    That Exotic City place looks interesting and I LOVE playing dominatrix. Is there any security to ensure that there's no sex acts going on? I'm not interested in jerking off strangers, LOL!

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    I work at the body shop everytime i go to LA. I love it there.. come and go as you want, charge what you want. no stage fee... no tipping... typically make around $500 a night but im only there a few hours (usually at the bars most of the night) Most of the girls are seriously nasty so when a cute sweet girl comes in she banks...

    Check it out - they have an amateur night too...

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    Hmmmm, REALLY? Guess I know where to go this week!

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    \audrey:i do the same thing.thats the place to dance if you only come n go while ur in LA....they dont have schedules so u can come in and go anytime you please.
    i only work for about three hours (1am-4am) and make around 600-700.it's a cool place to dance and the girls r really nice.
    the other place i tried was the star strip too (what a dump) ....sooo boring but i still walked out with 800 but i would not go back to that place again.
    spearmint rhino is supposedly good too....

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    Wow...That's too bad about The Jet Strip. I was there today, and although it was pretty dead for a Saturday afternoon, the girls where very friendly and attentive. It's too bad you won't be working there. I think the club is pretty good, but that is coming from a custy's POV, not a dancers. You are right about that pole being so close to the tiprail - I never noticed it until I read your first post and checked it out today.....who in hell designed THAT????

    I gotta ask this - what are the advantages of trying out a club thru amateur contests rather than just straight out auditioning? Forgive my ignorance of it all....again, I am not a dancer......just a PL customer!

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    Damn Yekhefah that sounds like my first audition! My first was also so F-up I had to laugh when I got in the car of corse. good luck

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah
    Isn't Bare Elegance owned by the same people who own Jet Strip?
    No. The Jet Strip and Bare Elegance used to have the same ownership, but not for awhile now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lopaw
    I gotta ask this - what are the advantages of trying out a club thru amateur contests rather than just straight out auditioning? Forgive my ignorance of it all....again, I am not a dancer......just a PL customer!
    At most clubs who have Amateur Night, that's when they audition. They don't do them the rest of the week; if you want to work there, you compete in Amateur Night. If you do well, you get a job and the cash prize.

    I would prefer to do a regular low-pressure audition, as my first show of the night always stinks even when I'm not being sabotaged by incompetent management. It just takes a little bit for me to get into the groove. C'est la vie...

    Next time I will warm up at home before I go to the club.

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    I had a horrible experience tonight. I thought I could use a confidence boost because I have been so miserable lately. My boyfriend was in a motorcycle accident and lost his right leg, and when I'm not working, I am at the hospital.
    So I decided that an amateur contest would be fun since I was pretty sure I would at least win something. But I didn't. I thought I looked real good, but I was surrounded by the "typical stripper" girls. You know, blonde hair, fake boobs, yadda yadda yadda, not like there's anything wrong with that but . . . . I lost the contest. I mean there were only 12 contestants, but I thought for sure I'd win at LEAST third place. Now I am even more in the dumps than before. I should have just gone to work. Then at least getting money would have been a given. Needless to say, I am very sad.

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    Rarity121, those contests are almost always rigged. Seriously. The girls who won either knew somebody or were already hired before the contest. Don't feel bad about it!

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