Oh, the false rocker guy?  Sounds like he may be either a lunatic or very very clever. 

Or both.  Just to be equivocal.

I think he's made up the fact that he orchestrated the whole thing after the fact. It's bizarre.

Hilarious. If he makes a film, it could be the next Spinal Tap.

Sounds to me like he's desperate for fame and thinks he should be famous instead of his brother and set up his own world tour.  Surely no talent agency would actually organise a tour for an act they represent that has no record deal, no album sales, etc?  Also if it was for real why would a record label only pay travel and £300 for the musicians when session musicians who tour with Beyonce and people are well paid?

Did you actually read the article Saillaw?

Yes I read it all and believe that most of the third parties involved were just him and his wife given that a number of them don’t exist and even if they did their actions make no sense.  

Right.  So why did you ask this:

Surely no talent agency would actually organise a tour for an act they represent that has no record deal, no album sales, etc?  Also if it was for real why would a record label only pay travel and £300 for the musicians when session musicians who tour with Beyonce and people are well paid?

when you understand it was ALL just him and his wife?

Those questions are why I think it was all him as it makes no sense that any real agency organising a world tour would do those things.  If someone has no record sales you organise them a tour of local bars and clubs in their home market rather than a world tour.  Also if he was already a rock star why would he need to recruit a band and why would his agents hire him a guitarist with no track record rather than someone on their books with experience of touring?

Sails m3 are you just trolling Stix at this point?

No she just seems to have missed the point of my rhetorical questions.

Err no.  She was simply enquiring as to why you had turned your rapier sharp intellect to the question of whether it was all made up or not when he admitted in that very article that it was indeed all made up.

Because others on here are suggesting that he’s lying about fabricating it so he doesn’t look as crap.  Did you read the whole thread?

Yes I did and there was one post that mentioned he may be trying to style it out.  I thought it was cool, he wanted to do a world tour so he did.  Brilliant.

FFS.

Sails. People were questioning his claim to have always intended to get caught, not the fact that he did it.

Christ, I feel like Dogwarden trying to communicate with Chambers. 

I O Hughes! This is not a real person!!

It would still make a great film. He set it up perfectly. All kinds of deception, things that could possibly go wrong that did. It would appeal to every teenage kid who ever picked up a guitar in small town America and dreamed of being a rock star.

But it would be absolutely nothing like This is Spinal Tap.

Why can't the journalist approach the news outlets Jere claims to have emailed, to confirm whether they did indeed receive the email prior to it all unraveling?

Ultimately though, even though it does seem the hoax was quite intricate and elaborate (or perhaps it just snowballed from some normal puffery), there is nothing too audacious about it, is there? I mean, it would be quite impressive if the guy couldn't play a single note on the guitar, but that's not the case. At least his bandmates must have been convinced enough from the practice sessions that the guy was legit.

Stix I was looking at Dusty's post of "I think he's made up the fact that he orchestrated the whole thing after the fact" which to me suggests that she doesn't think he orchestrated it which means someone else must have done...

That's not what dusty meant.  Hth hth

So what she meant was he orchestrated it as a serious genuine tour but has then made up the fact that he orchestrated it all as a spoof to try and fool people?  I thought lawyers were aware of the need to say what they mean rather than something that can be interpreted as the opposite.