Straight company Zaye Entertainment jumped into the gay market last year with the exquisitely video'd Damian Ford in Hawaii. Since then, owner/videographer Richie Zaye has released Take Me Deeper and a Czech import, Stranger in the City. But his runaway success is the Knob Squad line, a brilliantly-titled, no-frills, dick-sucking series. By focusing on oral sex, Zaye is able to supply product to an underserved niche market and enjoy certain economies of time and supplies.
A scene from the third in the series is what I am observing today. Zaye is filming four scenes, each scheduled two hours apart. I figure if I arrive around 1:00 I'll be able to see Ethan Marc with whoever Zaye got to replace Brad Benton who, I am told, had to cancel. The location is the famous laid-back, clothing-optional, in-the-heart-of-West-Hollywood San Vicente Inn.
When I'm right outside I cell-phone Zaye, as arranged, but get his voice-mail. He must be filming. I piggyback in with a hotel guest who's just unlocked the electronic gate and actually holds it open for me.
At the check-in desk, I ask the clerk where Zaye Entertainment is filming. Carrying a briefcase and dressed in my I-am-not-up-to-no-good best, I must look sort of official so he leads me through the maze of the hotel compound to the bungalow where filming is supposed to be happening.
It looks small, the door is closed, the curtains are drawn, and I decide not to risk walking in on a scene in progress. I call again. Still no answer. I take a seat in the shade within eyesight of the door and wait.
Before long production manager T.J. Paris comes outside looking for Ethan. "Oh, good. You made it," he says when he spots me. "We're a little behind. Come on in." I enter the bungalow and Paris introduces me to Zaye. He is in the living room with his camera waiting for Kyle McDermott, who is in the kitchenette beating his meat, to come.
We chat quietly until we hear "Almost ready," and he steps into the tiny room, which also contains Corbin Michaels, to get the cum-shot. Perky Kyle and Corbin then step out of the kitchenette and into the bathroom to clean up.
Brad Benton arrives! "You're not supposed to be here!" I joke. He gives me the finger. Brad and I have bonded: He's been in every movie I've done an on-the-set piece about for the past three months. Zaye looks surprised to see him too. It turns out it was a guy in the next scene who'd cancelled and had to be replaced.
Ethan Marc arrives next and the five of us move outside to one of the multitude of locations the picturesque Inn offers. It also offers day passes, I learn, as several other men saunter by — nude, in swimsuits, or towels — checking out the porn stars.
The Knob Squads start out with each performer greeting the viewers and saying a few words about himself in response to Zaye's questions. Brad's responses are undoubtedly the zaniest of the series so far.
When they're finally ready to get to the sex, Ethan asks, "Do you want us in clothes?" "Yes," Zaye says, "pants on, shirts off." He sends Brad and Ethan around a corner so the camera can capture them entering the frame and approaching a sofa in the covered area where the action will take place.
They walk into frame and start kissing. Both are incredible kissers and know exactly where to go from there. As Zaye moves in and around them getting the best shots, they work themselves out of their jeans. Brad's straight-up erection finds its way into Ethan's mouth for a spectacular blowjob. Ethan is truly one of the best.
Passersby trickle through the area as slowly as possible to get an eyeful. No one stops to gawk, though they'd probably like to. Brad is now on his back on the sofa. Ethan, his amazing ass to me, is having difficulty staying on the sofa where he's kneeling to suck Brad. It's a little too narrow and a little too short: His right knee keeps slipping off. That and the constant parade of the curious are not working for him — Ethan's lost his hard-on. He asks for a break and he and Brad disappear to a private cabana to correct the problem. Moments later they're back on the sofa and Ethan's thrusting shaft is attempting to do serious damage to Brad's tonsils.
With Ethan hard, they pause for some still action shots, then resume filming with a position change, a quite athletic-looking 69: Brad hovers, spiderlike over Ethan, sucking him while fucking his mouth. When Zaye has enough action footage and Brad starts his telltale I'm-ready-to-come moan, he asks for cum-shots. Brad and Ethan lie on their backs facing each other, butt-against-butt, as they wank.
Now another distraction surfaces — in addition to the added foot traffic (the after-work crowd has arrived), sounds of hammering and power saws from construction being done in a nearby suite bang and screech just as the guys are trying to ejaculate.
How can they concentrate with all this going on? Brad manages a cum-load, but Zaye decides to move back inside for Ethan's. Once settled with Brad in the quiet bungalow living room (on the same throw that covered the outdoor sofa, for continuity), Ethan lets rip a squirt of jizz — and it's a wrap!
As Brad and Ethan clean up, Zaye is already taking glamour shots and filming the interviews for the next sequence with Jack London and Kris Anthony. Another series of scenes will be shot tomorrow, then Knob Squad 3 is off to editing for a September release.
Knob Squad 3' s complete cast is Jason Crew, Brad Benton, Ethan Marc, Cameron Fox, Kyle McDermott, Corbin Michaels, Jack London, Trent Cougar, Park Wiley, Adam Gabriel, Jack London, Kris Anthony, and Zaye's first exclusive, Matthew.
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Brad Benton photo courtesy of Zaye Entertainment.
