I was just curious as to how many people on here have dealt with A&R types and dodgy "studio" owners .. I was just thinking back to when I used to go to gigs with my mates Sally and Neil .. and when our other mate Ben used to run his accoustic night, all manner of people would turn up 98% of them fine, but then you always seemed to have the odd 2% or so who were there offering their services, who on further inspection turned out to be dreamers or just out and out bullshitters .. I can remember sally being approched by some bloke who was offering his services as a producer / engineer ... ( Sally goes out with one of our senior engineers, he's worked with radiohead, coldplay, manic street preaches and Engelburt humperdink ;-) to name a few, and She's Sir George Martins PA ) anyhow this guy came up wanting to work with Sal and neil and was realing off all the bands etc he'd worked with and naming names .. which was unfortunate for him, as we knew quite a few of the people he was naming, needless to say we were sceptical from the off so obviously declined his offer .. besides we had Air to record in, in downtime .. but needless to say we did an internet search for him, nothing, and we asked a couple of people if they knew of him .. they didn't .. so as expected he was full of bull .. there's other little stories, but won't go into the at the mo .. there's a great one about a bloke in canada who put himself about as George Martins assistant back in the 70's and used George's name to con people into working with him and ripping them off with crap recordings ( allegedly ) .. neither, George or anyone close to him I asked knew of the guy or could remember him .. I'm off for the next two days, back in on Saturday so won't reply to anything till then .. if indeed any replys are posted .. :-)