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Rick Shoor
- West Coast Agent
Rick Shoor, an agent at Ian Copeland’s Frontier Booking Intl. (F.B.I.) Agency from 1980-1988, has joined Red Entertainment Agency in New York City as the West Coast agent. After graduating from the University of Connecticut, Rick moved to New York in 1980 where he was hired by Ian Copeland and John Huie to join them at the fledgling new wave/punk agency. The first dates he booked were for then little known rocker Joan Jett & The Blackhearts who were awaiting the release of the “I Love Rock & Roll” album that would go on to become a multi-platinum hit and would help him make his name in the agency world. Among the many acts that he was responsible for at FBI were The GoGo’s, Thompson Twins, Simple Minds, Katrina and the Waves, P.I.L., Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo & The Bunnymen, Iggy Pop, Gang of Four, The Buzzcocks, UB40, Robert Palmer, The Fixx and Squeeze . After leaving FBI, he briefly formed an artist management company with artists on Epic Records, PolyGram and Virgin U.K. Later Rick formed an indie label, Buzzsaw Records, with Joan Jett and her manager Kenny Laguna. Rick returned to Grad School in 2000 and after obtaining a Masters Degree became a teacher in the New York City school system. Regarding his return to the agency business Shoor says “The entertainment bug really never left my system and over the past couple of years I’ve been getting the itch to get back in the game, especially whenever I went to a show and was backstage or when all the ex-FBI staff would get together from time to time for drinks. It wasn’t until Ian Copeland passed away last year and I received so many calls from bands and managers to talk about Ian that I totally realized this is what I was meant to be doing and began to work towards working at an agency again. I am very psyched to be back and to be working here at Red Entertainment with their great roster of artists and look forward to adding a little rock & roll to the mix!”
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