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I agree. Honesty is a good trait in music reviews....I don't see a lot of it lately. Regarding that whole debacle with my CD review...the newspaper ended up recruiting me to write some of their CD reviews based on the letter of dispute I wrote to the guy who reviewed my CD. I guess the music editor liked how I wrote. Since then I've reviewed 4 or 5 CDs for the newspaper, all but one were non-local. But here is the kicker that spoils all this honesty bit...and Joe, you'll remember our conversation about this....I was very precise with my language on my reviews, clarifying when I was stating a verifiable fact vs. my own emotional response to the music (i.e., distinguishing factual from emotive statements), and I focused mainly on positive emotional responses because I now what it feel like to get bashed in a review, and like to abide to the "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" principle when it comes to reviews. Anyway, I spent a long time crafting this review of a band, and in the end editor changed my wording to make the review shorter, but changed it in a way that make my emotional responses look like statement of objective fact...COMPLETELY contradictory to my whole music review philosophy. It wasn't a problem with my writing, just a matter of saving space. So they took liberties, not knowing how what they did changed the meaning of my review. I wonder how often this happens in the music review scene. Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:01 AM Subject: Re: Looping back to Krispen's old critics thread (was sorta: using laptops for music" Sounded like a well-written review to me. I felt the writer had honestly described his experience of the event, and given me a good idea of what to expect if I went to a similiar event, and managed to throw a bit of humor into what could have been a dreary article. He really liked some of it, really disliked some of it, and the rest was somewhere in between. I liked the bit about how some of the performers need to hear less about how great they are, that was a good belly laugh. In my twenty years of public performance, I can't recall ever being booed, or even told that I sucked afterwards, despite considerable evidence to the contrary in many cases. People are, on the whole, polite to your face. However, inside and afterwards, many of them feel like the reviewer. TravisH On 10/26/05, Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com> wrote: > yIKES! > > I just found this and found it somewhat amusing, scary > and, what's more, fairly on-topic. :P > > <http://indyweek.com/durham/2003-02-26/music.html> > > -t- >