Fun: Dyster on stage at every show!

Taxpayers get a full load of fun when they pay $42,000 to bring KC and his booty-shaking act to town.

Everybody get on the floor let’s ...

Shake your what?... Paonessa (insert) has doubts about concert series.

While Mayor Paul Dyster was billing Nik Wallenda $25,000 for police and fire overtime, here is what he and the council approved to pay the Hard Rock Cafe for their concert series:
Guess Who: $30,000; Buffalo Philharmonic: $23,000; Sloan: $15,000; Talas: $25,000; K. C. and the Sunshine Band: $42,000; Finger 11: $15,000.

By the way, if Hard Rock books acts for less than what they get from the city, Hard Rock keeps the difference. Hard Rock is not required to reveal what it spends on concerts.

On Mayor Dyster’s Facebook, his profile picture is of him standing onstage. On July 20, the night before the Sloan concert, he writes of himself in the third person. “Mayor's favorite Sloan song? Here it is: (links to song).

The Mayor goes on to speak in beatnik talk about the concert. “Be there or be square,” he writes, “for the third of this year's great series co-sponsored by the City of Niagara Falls and Hard Rock Cafe. ...FREE show in downtown Niagara Falls starting at 6pm tomorrow (Saturday) night.”

Free for everyone but the taxpayers that is....

Last week on the Sal Paonessa show, seen live on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 6:30 p.m. at www.nbn7900.com, the Hard Rock Concert Series came up.

Sal seemed amused that the Niagara Falls Reporter referred to the upcoming K C and the Sunshine Band, concert as “pornography.”

Based on information provided to him, Sal had announced that the Hard Rock was bringing porn on the taxpayers’ dime.
Reporter publisher, Frank Parlato called the show last Wednesday.

Sal: Frank, what the hell is with this pornography thing? Come on. You made me get on the air and say the Hard Rock is bringing porno. I made the statement, ‘You gotta read the Reporter today because the Hard Rock is bringing a porno act and we’re paying for it.’ We looked at some of the stuff from the Hard Rock. I don’t know, Frank, you are pushin’ it a little bit here.

Co-host Steve Baum jumped in: Frank, I agree with you on one thing: if we paid $700,000 to the Hard Rock over the last four years, shame on the City, shame on the Mayor, shame on anybody who signed on to that.

Sal: Let’s look at the pictures. To say this is porn? I don’t know Frank.

Frank: My definition of pornography is, if Hard Rock pays for its own concerts, it’s not porn. If taxpayers pay, it’s obscene. What you’re not seeing, Sal, is the faint background. The taxpayers appear in the pictures and they are getting screwed.

Sal: Look at the first picture, a nice looking young lady with a nice set of legs. That’s not pornography.

Frank: I spoke with Mayor Dyster about this. He said the line between pornography and acceptable titillation is a gray area and, after he read the article, he essentially told me it could be pornographic, but he would have to bring the girls into his private office and have them perform for him to make that determination.

Steve: The Mayor gives away my hard earned money for this? I didn’t pay taxes for that.

Sal: Do you think showing a little cleavage and a little booty is a bad thing, Frank?

Frank: There is $42,000 being paid to bring KC to town. Let’s say you pay $5,000 per year property taxes on your home. You are paying taxes for the next seven years to bring this to town.

Sal: I am looking at the pictures. I don’t see them as pornographic. So you got me Frank, hook, line and sinker, when you said “they are bringing porn, we’re paying for it. And I’m looking for porn. And it ain’t there. Not that I want it, but I am looking at these pictures.

Frank: Perhaps you’re disappointed because your standards of concupiscence and lascivious behavior disagree with …

Sal: What did he just say?

Steve: You’re just pissed because it wasn’t gay porn.

Sal: OK, Frank, I get your point: It is pornographic as far as we have to pay for this.

Steve: Do you know the military acronym BOHICA? It means “bend over, here it comes again.” That’s our government.

Frank: Hard Rock has a follow up to that. It is, “Keep it Coming, Love.”

(Keep in mind that the Sal Paonessa show, a must-see for local news, doesn’t cost taxpayer’s a dime!)