General Music Chat

So I just got an email from Bmix that someone is upset and cried to them that I said something inappropriate. LOL (ok, that's possible, if not probable.)

You can imagine my dismay.. (hic, whaat?)(no I wasn't PUI)

I simply replied, "it would help if you could tell me which comment you are referring to". Waiting for a reply, zip, nada, nothing as of now..

Worse yet, I have no idea what they are talking about if they don't let me know. Could be anything I said...there's lots that is off-color and I am not much for pulling punches.

But I am mildly curious. I thought it might be my stalker, but that stuff is still there.

I doubt it's Les, he's busy doing his own thing, besides he's not really a cry baby.

If I have to go down the list of people I irritated, it's a long list.
I guess I should expect that Bmix wouldn't be very specific.

I don't know who's crying, but it's ok.

I'll wager it's a free member, considering most all of the rest of you would simply send me a rather pointed message otherwise. LOL

It wouldn't be the first time and probably won't be the last. (shrugs)

People are soooo strange...typical but predictable.

ooh I bet it's crunchy.. lol

Cap'n don't sweat it someone just got their panties all in a wad and it caused them to start whimpering and sniveling. I got one also. Is it a message saying someone complained and we should be considerate of other peoples feelings.

This is the INTERNET PEOPLE. Sticks and stones etc. Cyberspace. It's not like Scott is kicking your ass in person, though he's qualified.

Bleh, I've been here a long time. (since 2007)
I've lit a lot of fires and been accused of burning a bunch of bridges as well, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. I have no regrets. You reap what you sow.

And this is the first time I have been censured. (shrugs) Although early on I let the admin know that he/she could edit me at any time and I wouldn't care. (and I still don't)

Considering I have to go to the library to actually get online now, it wouldn't upset me to give this up.

I mean, what am I really doing here anyway?>

I don't like the political diatribe. I don't really fit in in this sea of would be musicians and I am getting ever angrier and more caustic over time.

I like the core of who this site is, but as always a few rotten apples spoil the barrel.

And the reality of this site is that it will never help you to achieve your goals, you just have go out in that big bad world and play your sweet ass off.

Maybe I just need to go out, write less on this site and play more.

I mean, just about everything I know has been written on these pages and will exist long after I am gone. (even though my music won't) lol

I get ragged on because I write too much about people, places and things.
I say repeatedly that this is therapeutic to me, as in it relieves stress.
(If you don't like what I say, don't read it.)

I am not very politically correct, nor do I wish to be. I don't believe in PR, just attempting to be genuine and if the world doesn't like it they can "join the discard pile".

I've tried to help where I could and slammed a few in the process.
I make no apologies or excuses. I call them as I see them, no more and no less.

If you want me to leave, keep it up. I don't really get anything out of being here anymore, just some basic camaraderie. If you don't understand that part, I don't think I can elaborate so that you will comprehend it.

I thank you people that have been friendly to me over the years, that's a long list indeed.

And those that think the convex can kiss my ass. I'll continue to do as I see fit and if that means leaving this site, so be it.

(I think we are all better off playing more and writing less, as honing your craft is what ultimately we all must do to reach the pinnacle at the end of that hard, cold road that most of us are at least attempting to travel.)

In short, the world does not kiss your ass but it certainly likes to kick it but I'll be damned if I'll sit here and have some plebe give me sh*t anonymously over something I wrote/said but not have the stones to come forward and be counted. ( What's the matter, you afraid of what I might say to you? It's the internet, jr. relax, twerp.)

The world does not reward cowards, fortune favors the bold.
Be bitter, be pissy, be caustic, but most of all be bold and be yourself.

If not be gone, do what you will but don't bore me to death...I get that enough reading the political excrement that some of you love to rehash over and over again.

I've got an idea for you, WRITE SOME MUSIC. I mean, isn't that really why you are here to begin with?>

WHY ARE YOU HERE? WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING TO DO?
WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS? WHAT ARE YOUR DREAMS?

If you want a snowballs' chance in hell, you best be able to answer these questions at least silently to yourself.

But what do I know? Not much evidently..but I've been around and some could do well to learn through the hard lessons I've already suffered through. But if you like pain and mental anguish, you could always ignore what is written and attend "the music school of hard knocks".
I'm a charter member!

I just hope that the next stage isn't made of flames and filled with out of tune guitars. (inside joke for regulars) But I wouldn't complain, I'll just keep doing the best I can with the little I am allotted.

The point is to be what you are, do the best you can and forget the rest.
It doesn't matter. It's all "mind over matter". As in "I don't mind and you don't matter" and if you expect to be a performer, you best adopt that attitude promptly or be destined to crash and burn.

If any of my cohorts are offended by this specimen, I am sorry.
If any of my numerous critics are offended by this, you can go directly to hell. (see above paragraph)

It's all "mind over matter" and always will be to me.

Anyone wanna call my mommy and tell her that I am a bad boy>?
The bitch already knows as much. Save your dime and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.

Typical of people to live vicariously on the web, isn't it? So many in their own insular worlds. People have actually commited suicide because somebody bullied them in cyberspace. It's a joke! How empty and pathetic is somebody's life that they have to complain to the "authorities" about what somebody said online. This is insane!

Capt, did I miss one of your post's? It must have been a DOOSEY.

I would rather think some one figured a way to email you under the name of bandmix. In the past you have been a bit rough, but I think you have been rather mellow in the last year. SO IT DON'T FIT.

When I think of you, I think of a very creative musician that has produced some GREAT MUSIC. You are a very cool person. We should try to get together this summer... Just a few bridges.

Scott, some one is playing games with you... It's not bandmix. If it is... Why am I being left out... I want my "ASSS WHOOPING TOO"

I can't even find the post they are upset about. (not like they were forthcoming about it)(not like I care)

Bandmix is as always, near silent, nearly invisible. It's 2 eyes that watch as you write but say nothing and do nothing.

I replied to their email and they are off having a smoke or two.
(probably with FLOWERS FROM INDIA) lol

I say "f**k it, kick me out...I have better stuff to do anyways".

And unfortunately, I rather doubt that email was a fluke.
It was real enough, but what's the point of slapping a hand if you don't know why it's being slapped.

It's sure as sh*t not going to change what i say or what I do.

This place is near dead anyway. Go ahead, do what you need to do Bmix!

You think that would be productive? I'm thinking that a little controversy is good for hits etc.

But go ahead and stick your finger in my eye without being specific, I'll be your huckleberry. This site is floundering and the regulars all know it.

Now that most of my music is gone, I am just a regular guy again.
No sample for Larry, Curly and Moe...so the nonsense is as it was, PARAMOUNT.

I am sure as sh*t not going to take any guff from any little wannabe with no sample. And I got tons of mileage out of this site with a NON-PAYING MEMBERSHIP. Try as you will, you can't erase that. LOL

And most anyone that ever had a problem with me, either sent me a PM or wrote me directly. (I am not hard to find)

So whoever the coward is, you can bite me. It's still "mind over matter".

The site is floundering because the economy in general is floundering. Gigs that pay are drying up all over the country so for a lot of people like myself, it doesn't pay to join Bandmix as a premier member because there's no gigs worth a crap anyway.
I've been an affiliate with banner ads all over one of my website and I've gotten numerous clicks but absolutely no sales. People don't have money to spend.
I just bartered a cabinet job with my dentist for a root canal and crown. Ten years ago that wouldn't have even been an option.
Obama has done absolutely nothing to get the economy moving again.

f**k EM CAPTAIN!!



lol

you got a lot of conflicting voices in your head, you know that dont cha!

I don't know anything. I am knowing less and time goes on.

(Watch him as his brains leak out his ear and onto the ground.)

And whatever may or may not be in my head allows me to write as easy as rolling up my sleeves.

So that makes me about as popular as a transvestite at a republican convention.. LMAO

And it's still "mind over matter".

The next game we'll play is "i am holding up three fingers, guess which one I'm thinking about". LOL

"Brian Don'T" !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184

The site is floundering because the economy in general is floundering. Gigs that pay are drying up all over the country so for a lot of people like myself, it doesn't pay to join Bandmix as a premier member because there's no gigs worth a crap anyway.
I've been an affiliate with banner ads all over one of my website and I've gotten numerous clicks but absolutely no sales. People don't have money to spend.
I just bartered a cabinet job with my dentist for a root canal and crown. Ten years ago that wouldn't have even been an option.
Obama has done absolutely nothing to get the economy moving again.

NO SHIIT!!!!!!

I doubt there is a man here I've not mixed words with on one subject or another.

That's life . . .

I'll also admit I'm not above complaining to the Mother-ship.

Spammers or Trolls who do nothing but make our site unusable as a music forum.

Not the case here.

Oh I may be a troll, but I speak the plain and painful truth.

What I say isn't always popular and I do lash out in anger, but more often than not, it's exactly what I think and that's not always popular. (too bad, so sad)

But damn you'd be bored if everyone told you exactly what you wanted to hear and that's not really all that helpful (IMO)

Better to take some lumps and man up, than to remain stuck in rut and not progress, musically speaking.

I'd rather have people around me that cut me to the bone, than have a pile of yes men surrounding me. ( I heal up nicely )

When I say I liked it, I did.
When I say I didn't like it, I didn't and I'll stand by my guns.

Too many people are afraid to say what they mean to begin with and that's no way to go through life, let alone if you are a would be musician.

I think it's a disservice to tell people things other than what you thought because it's a lie and otherwise you set them up to believe something that isn't true.

Even worse if you don't tell them and they make a public ass out of themselves on stage, that is the stuff of nightmares there for performers.
(See fiery stage of many guitars, all out of tune.) lol

"Walk and talk softly, but play big or someone else will".

The site is floundering because the economy in general is floundering. Gigs that pay are drying up all over the country so for a lot of people like myself, it doesn't pay to join Bandmix as a premier member because there's no gigs worth a crap anyway.
I've been an affiliate with banner ads all over one of my website and I've gotten numerous clicks but absolutely no sales. People don't have money to spend.
I just bartered a cabinet job with my dentist for a root canal and crown. Ten years ago that wouldn't have even been an option.
Obama has done absolutely nothing to get the economy moving again.

He has been appointed to destroy this country, not to prosper it.