I want to go back to Rudi's restaurant; Stuyvesants House in Crows Nest Sydney. Because I miss the dysfunctional floorshow, through some undiagnosed flaw in my values system. I miss the food from Max, with his trademark smoker aroma, pictured (minus the aroma) here:
Rudi takes no prisoners. These guys are seriously hard core.
My breaking straw event is detailed below. Here is Rudi with his apparently terrific son.
The deal breaker was that I had myself thrown out before Christmas 2011, as I could not abide by how Rudi treated another novice waitress. (Story here).
NEXT ROGUE:
How about Eric Robinson?
Since the early 1970's one of the two dominant partners in Jands, and probably the toughest guy from the slug it out era of the 70's and 80's. He has always driven the concert audio side of the company, and needed to be aggressive and driven to get to the top.
Which is where he remains to this day. The stories about Eric are legion - one that sounds credible is when Samuelsons UK purchased the Jands Concert Productions business in the late 1980's for a reported seven million dollars. Eric flew over to London to head up operations, and upon arriving happened upon a vintage Rolls Royce in the warehouse.
'Get that thing out of here', he is reported as saying, although the language was inevitably more colourful. Transpires the car belonged to the Chairman, and relationships deteriorated over the next few years. Another time an old school type reportedly sneered that 'you Australians are all convicts', whereas Eric quickly replied 'yes, and you sent us here'.
Eric has a very fast wit, and his deal making skills are almost the best there are......
