After KC and I split up I continued to make many trips up to see Sgt Major, sometimes with Crystal Frost but many times alone when the Sarge had models flown in, and many times when he had Lew Rubens and Maria Shadoes as his guests. Thanks to Lew and Maria, Sarge’s rigging had become world class, worthy of the notice of Peter at Kink.com and guest spots on the Kink sites were starting to happen. Lew and Sarge had also started a collaboration on a Live show combining Sarge’s Karate influences with Lew’s suspension prowess and Maria’s flexibility. I was invited to join the troupe as an extra, so in June and July I was making the 9 hour drive literally every other week as we were invited to be the main event for the Sunday night Fetish Ball at the new Fetishcon in it’s new location, Tampa, FL

As I mentioned, the winter of 2003-2004 saw the split of the original Bondcon organizers, Bondcon going to Las Vegas, holding 2 cons before folding. Genesis Lynn, Mike and Vesta moved themselves and their con to Tampa, changing the name to Fetishcon, a con name owned and donated by Stacy Burke who from that point forward has been the Mistress of Ceremonies. This is the first time that the con has taken it’s now traditional dates the second weekend of August, getting the host hotel at it’s most available, nearly at the peak of hurricane season and the most oppressive tropical weather of the year. I signed up immediately as a sponsor of the event, and, as I did in the last 2 New York cons, bought table space on the floor, this year sharing the space with Sgt Major. All this was before our little performance troupe was booked to perform at the Sunday night Fetish Ball. It was a very exciting time for me, as stagnant as the business was, 2004 started seeing growth. My partnerships with Sgt Major and Lew was putting my name out in the industry and even without a model / partner sales finally started taking off. When we set up shop in Tampa I felt for the first time that The Bondage Channel was actually going to become a name in the bondage video genre and that I was actually going to make a living doing it.

I will talk more about the actual memories of that con with the next video. While I spent most of the time manning the booth I did manage to have time for 2 shoots. The first shoot was with, (naturally), a redhead that came to the booth. Her name was Rhiannon. I had never met her before and never heard from her since, like many Fetishcon models I will shoot over the next 15 years. I took Rhiannon upstairs to my hotel room right from the floor. She was dressed head to toe in latex with a leather long coat. That session is the first scene in this video. I enjoyed the beds at the first fetish con hotel. The headboards have two high bedposts that were surprisingly well secured to the walls, making for some good predicament bondage possibilities. Miss Rhiannon ends up naked, spread wide, her milky white ass reddened, and the Hitachi doing it’s thing. A fun play session.

The second scene is a play session with Crimson that we shot as soon as I got back from the con to fill out the time for this and the next Fetishcon DVDs. I was hoping to put the two Fetishcon shoots on one video, but together they timed out too long. Crimson is always ready to play on a moment’s notice and filled out the time quite well.

So until that second Fetishcon video, and a milestone in my career, enjoy my first of many years of Fetishcon hotel room scenes and a video full of redheads