Good morning New York and to start this blog off on a good solid note, I'm posting the pic I'm using to promote Michael Brandon's appearance at the July 11th Bad Boys on the Hudson.
Now, I hear ya asking - why are you naming this blog "Bad Boys Pool Party" if you're promoting "Bad Boys on the Hudson".. well, that's a good question and deserving of a good answer.
You see back in 1998 I started a party called "Bad Boys Pool Party" which featured a dozen gay porn stars meeting and greeting their fans at a private home in the Hollywood Hills. The party grew in size and eventually I started a second party in Palm Springs (in 2001). The L.A. party got too big for the spaces we were able to have access to but we had an incredible space out in Palm Springs called The Cree Estate - three acres, an incredible pool and the perfect set up parking-lot wise for a fundraising event that got national - and international attention.
Where does Michael fit in? Well, in 2000 Michael rejoined the industry after some time in jail and started his meteoric rise to the superstar that he is today. The party he first appeared at, which took place at a nice little home in WeHo was the first party to 'take off' and attract an incredible amount of people and make real money for our then charity, Aid for AIDS. Soon, Michael was headlining and sooner still, Michael was producing his own event, The Inappropriate Behavior Party as a reaction to an AFA volunteer who ousted him from the party for his "inappropriate behavior".
The two parties became linked - I threw the BBPP on Saturday afternoons and Michael threw his party on Sunday afternoons - it would turn into a weekend's worth of events and well, the rest of that is history.
But in 2005 I had produced 10 of these mega parties in 8 years and I was ready to take a break. There were a lot of contributing factors (my own distance from Palm Springs now living in NYC for example) to this decision and I didn't make it lightly but I made it nonetheless.
And yes when one stops doing an event, imitators will rush in and try to recreate it (even going so far, as one producer did, to simply replicate our advertising scheme - the blue water background with the yellow
rubber duck - which indicated whimsy and support of safer sex practices) but none have been able to because these guys think that all you have to do to make a good party is to throw a bunch of porn stars at a pool and press 'play' and that's a Bad Boys Pool Party. Silly kids.
As far as the Bad Boys on the Hudson - yes I had made quite the to-do that last year's event would be the last one (it had already gone on a year longer than any other event I've ever done and I thought I'd quit while I was ahead! LOL) but when Michael re-emerged from his cocoon (as we all need to take a break from time to time) and joined me here in New York last January for P*rno Bingo, the first thing he said was that he wanted to come on back this summer for a BBH7 if I was going to do one. How can I refuse that kind of offer? Michael Brandon on the Queen of Hearts surrounded by fans and other porn stars? Raise the mast and let's set sail! Did you know that clothes actually simply fall off Michael when he walks through a door? It's true. <wink>
So today we begin the two week countdown to the most exciting Bad Boys on the Hudson event yet featuring nearly a dozen hotties -a couple of titleholders, a hall of famer, an ex military guy, New York's hottest go go man and so much more!
Here's what we're using as the promo pic.. but if you ask nicely I might be able to come up with something a little more revealing (and closer in tone to that 'clothes fall off of him' remark).
You can catch Michael on his website at Michael Brandon
