[Henchman]

I think it's really lame of the producer to pull this "holding out for a contract" at the last minute.

It's his responsibilty to get his contract together BEFORE he books studio time. Maybe he wants his firends who own the stduio to be able to keep billing, because they have nothing else going on. Whatever happened to accountability. If I was the bands management, I would be taking all the costs of this week out of the producers paycheck, for not showing up.