Bill Goldman Travelling Tales

[Jeff Haas]

Joel Bauer's ability to draw a crowd in a tradeshow venue is, quite simply, amazing.

At MacWorld in San Francisco a couple of years ago, Apple introduced the new titanium version of their notebook computers. Their booth was packed...those laptops were the coolest thing anyone had seen in a long time.

The second-most crowded booth at MacWorld belonged to a small software company selling a backup utility. They had hired Joel Bauer. He repeatedly took a large empty section of the floor and had it packed with people in minutes. We're talking LOTS of people...easily a couple of hundred at a time.

He is a terrific performer, and much more effective in the tradeshow arena than most of the other exhibits.

Jeff

[Guest]

I used to work for Sun Microsystems and saw Joel Bauer in Telecom Geneva 1999
(Lior Manor and Bill Goldman also worked there and saw them too).
I didn't like Joel's work that much,He was very aggressive with his
audience but I think that that's the way he gets so many people.
They want to see what he is going to do with the person on stage...

I wasn't deep into magic at that time but I remember them very well.
When I came back home I started reading greater magic again

Someone wrote Joel was coaxed to perform his own version of Psychokinetic Touch
Can you describe the effect??

Maxim

[Richard Kaufman]

Sorry about that last post from the "moon," I've deleted it.

[Guest]

Bill's traveling stories are one of the highlights of his lecture as well as of his notes. Bill makes us appreciate the moments that make performing great. I was wondering if he is still working at Malones, or as Bill Malone says used his Malone's Magic Bars venue to go on to greater things!