Hello I HAVE QUITE A COMPLAINT to make about a certain local “drummer”. My name is Martin but people just call me The Chief. I run a night club outside the LA area and about two weeks ago I hired a local drummer named Judd Blount, stage name Judd Steele. I saw an ad he had on his website, JuddSteele.indiegroup.com, and decided he was qualified since it said he had drummed with Blue Oyster Cult and Quiet Riot just to name a few bands. He looked a little young to have drummed for Blue Oyster Cult but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. BIG MISTAKE!
Judd was hired to drum, replacing a band member of some people I had already hired. Their old drummer decided to part ways with the band and I didn’t want to lose my investment. These guys were hired as entertainment for my sons 21st birthday party which was to be held last night, Friday October 30th and was to last til early Halloween morning. Judd needed to practice with the band so I arranged for them to set up on stage and practice when the club was closed a week in advance.
The group was scheduled to meet on Wednesday October 21st and I showed up to watch them practice. To my surprise they were missing their drummer. An hour later he just eventually showed up….. DRUNK! It was only 7 o’clock in the evening on a Wednesday. I was livid! I stepped outside and his dune buggy was parked halfway up the curb. I ran back into the club and grabbed him by his stupid leather vest and through him outside. He collapsed on the ground and started sobbing and weeping, crying about how his wife had kicked him out of the house. I told him EITHER CLEAN UP YOUR ACT OR DON’T COME BACK HERE! He ended up attending practice on time and sober leading up to the event…… but it all fell apart!
I had spent thousands of dollars on this event. All of my son’s friends were going to be there as well as my close family. It was open to the public as well, being our Halloween party. Judd showed up wearing a giant bunny rabbit costume which I thought was quite a bit weird. I guess everybody is entitled to be what they want for Halloween though. He started acting out, running around the room yelling, “I’m the RABBITT DUUUUDE!!!” as loud as he could. At first everyone found it funny, but after about five minutes people started to get sick of it but Judd wouldn’t stop. “RABBIITTTT DUDEE!!!”, he kept yelling. You could tell he was drunk as a skunk.
I had to take some action so I confronted him and told him to settle down or he’d have to leave. He responded with profanity saying that it was HIS party. He walked away from me and went up to my son and said “Hey dude, happy birthday, wanna drink?!” My son said sure, so Judd went and got him one. When he came back Judd said that my son could only have the drink if he would touch Judd… in the naughty place. I had heard enough! I ran up to Judd and grabbed him my his neck and pulled him through the club and out through the back door. I threw him to the ground and told him to get the **** outta here! He got back up and took a shot at me, I ducked, punched him in the gut and then reached back and nailed him in the face with all I had. He hit the floor hard. When he finally came to he started spouting off again about how he had no money and his wife was gonna leave him… PATHETIC! I said, “You had a chance to make some money here but you blew it!” and kicked him right in the stomach. That was the last I heard of Judd Blount for the night.
Because of Judd, the nights entertainment was ruined and I lost a lot of money. I’ve been so angry these past 24 hours that I decided to look this guy up, something I should have done a long time ago. That’s how I found this website, turns out there are at least 10-20 other reports filed against him on here. Everything from running a home based scam operation, internet hazing, all the way to being an online predator on myspace…. That kind makes sense now. He even has an alias as the ‘Rabbit Dude’…. That stupid costume! I want to warn everybody about this guy before they lose their hard earned money too. This guys drumming ability is actually okay…. when he isn’t drunk! Save your time, hire a DJ!
