Quoted from kermit24:I hope his health situation improves! Interesting that Franchi said he had reached out to other pinball companies to look for work.
When you freelance, that’s how it works. Sometime the faucet is on and work from one source flows in... sometimes you gotta look for alternative faucets.
As someone that has freelanced, I can tell you it can be an exhausting process. Work can come in crazy amounts (to the point that you’re working 7 days a week) and then just stop. So, even when busy, you have to continually mine for work. His situation might be more stable. But it sounds like he went from 100 mph to 0.
One thing I’ll disagree with Franchi on is public proclamations. Obviously he can say and do anything he wants... but to think that folks running a business won’t take notice - or perhaps choose not to link their business with that cart - is foolish. Perhaps that’s not quite the case with artists. With pinball, only a small percentage of a very small group know or even care to know micro-facts about an artist. So, Stern May in fact not care. But, I still wouldn’t do it.