Another shady character that Josh and I recently discussed was Roy Radin. (You can look him up in Wikipedia.) He booked The Brothers Four on a couple tours that were quite substandard and we always suspected that he was connected to the mob. Supposedly the proceeds from the shows he promoted went to some police fund, but that was questionable. We later heard that he'd been shot in the head and then blown up with dynamite. Guess he musta missed a payment to somebody.
He usually hired retired cops or military personnel to drive us around and set up the Shure PA system that he used for those cheesey tours. On one tour he hired Mickey Deans to be our road manager. Mickey was Judy Garland's last husband. He had some interesting stories.
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