Scotty Brown

................Hello my friend!!! They called me Downtown Scotty Brown. Because I lived in Downtown Chicago before I moved to L.A. I grew up in Addison, IL, a suburb of Chicago, and started doing real estate in 1978 with my family.We owned other businesses like West Chicago Waste Management and Bartlett Nursery & Landscaping, too. Anyways, I moved to Chicago in 1980 to pursue a career in entertainment since it had been a dream of mine since childhood. I wasn’t exactly sure of what I wanted to do in the entertainment business, but I knew that I loved nightlife and rock n’ roll! So the first thing I did was promote concerts and eventually opened up my own nightclub, which was called Avalon Nite Club in 1986. I was then asked to sing at the Limelight Night Club in Chicago, which basically launched my singing career. I created the Downtown Scotty Brown band and we played every week for 10 years at various locations in Chicago. I ran a jam night and artists like Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins, Buddy Miles, and other great rock & roll cats would sit in. I had a lot of friends in Chicago and still do today. After visiting L.A., I realized that there was a lot more opportunity there and, you know, the weather didn’t hurt! So I sold the Avalon Nite Club and moved out here to further my career in entertainment, since I had gotten off to a pretty good start in Chicago. When I got here I started a promotion and marketing business,I liked it a lot, because I felt like my forte was in promo and marketing. After a little while I became a personal manager for Scott Weiland, the lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots who sold over 30 million records. I worked with Scott for four years and then decided to take a break from the rock life so I went into the movie business, which I thought would be an easier lifestyle. I started working as a location scout and manager, and worked on more than 20 television shows and films like Nip/Tuck, Judging Amy, I Am Sam with Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer, Rat Race with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Whoopi Goldberg, and Deuce’s Wild with Matt Dillon and Stephen Dorff, which I also had a little cameo in. Doing this gave me an extensive knowledge of the L.A. area, the people, and neighborhoods, which would later help me with my real estate career. In addition to real estate and entertainment, I was also a certified chemical dependency counselor. I really enjoyed helping others with their addiction problems as a result of my own personal experiences and challenges; you gotta give it away to keep it. When I moved to L.A. I counseled a lot of people in the entertainment community and was on the panel for MusiCares. Living the fast paced life in the entertainment industry was fun, but I didn’t enjoy working the long hours of the movie business, and I didn’t want to travel as much because I was tired of being away from my family all the time. Since I knew the L.A. area so well, I decided that I should go back into real estate and Malibu was my favorite location. I was able to utilize my clientele list from the entertainment business and my background in promotion, marketing, and sales really helped me to excel and become a top producer. It helps being in Malibu, too, because a lot of people love this area. Ironically, I got out of entertainment to settle down and do real estate, but recently, I was chosen to be one of the main real estate agents on the new television show, "Million Dollar Listings" on Bravo TV. I like to be involved in the community, too, so I coach boys’ basketball and baseball and am a member of Pepperdine University’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. I’m grateful to be living in one of the best places in the world, Malibu. And hopefully someday we’ll get the band back together!

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