The Shred Room II (with extra youth)

MovingPictures07 wrote: LinusW wrote: How could I forget!? What did you all get for Christmas? Electronic drums.

Schulze.
And a book.
And a headset with which I can listen to music from Mars.

Cool presents. Got mostly money, but some books, perfume and other beauty/hygiene products (like I need it! ) and some cool tea etc. etc. 

MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: LinusW wrote: How could I forget!? What did you all get for Christmas? Electronic drums. Schulze. And a book. And a headset with which I can listen to music from Mars. Sounds good to me. Which book?

Baudolino by Umberto Eco.

Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: BTW, did you find out that I was impressed by Henry Cow? No, I didn't. That's awesome. What have you heard? As of this evening, I will have heard all four official studio albums. Concerts is left.

Great!

Once I get around to reviewing the three studio albums I haven't yet, they'll all have 5 stars.

MovingPictures07 wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: Although, I was somewhat surprised as to why I was chosen to do that particular review (which never happened anyway), more surprising too when you consider it was a review that would be under much more scrutiny than normal. I mean, there are heaps of guys that are better reviewers than me, so I just don't get why I got chosen to do it Why would someone get chosen to do a specific review anyway? Well, basically, it's obvious a job like that wouldn't go to anyone that wasn't at least a Prog Reviewer at the minimum (no "regular" members basically) and I'm a Prog Metal Collab, and the problem was, Jody was absent too much at the time (and still is), Plankowner doesn't really do reviews, The T was away from PA too much, and so was Sleeper, so they picked me. The problem is, The T and sleeper are the guys on the Prog Metal Team more passionate about "Prog Metal" and I'm more passionate about Tech/Extreme and Post/Experimental, but the band I was tipped to review, was Prog Metal. And well, I'm just not that excited about that side of prog metal anymore, so I wouldn't have been able to give it more than 3 stars, because frankly I didn't see that album as being too special. Ah, okay. That is interesting. Have you guys ever thought of making sub-sets of the PMT (but still having one team)?

Well, that particular case was the only one were it really mattered if I liked the band or not (or more specifically, to what extent I liked it or not).

The thing is, you don't need everything on the team to vote yes to get a band to Cleared status (cleared being the stage at which it's then ready to have a bio done for it to get added to PA), so say we get a Post/Experimental band to evaluate, only Jody, Plankowner and I would have to listen to it if The T really didn't want to.

And of course, even when we are presented with a band that doesn't get along with our taste when evaluating, you have to leave behind how you feel about the band and just concentrate on evaluating it to see if it has  prog credentials or not, so even if I'm presented with say, a Power Prog metal band (power prog I'm not too keen on) I'll still listen to it and decide if it's prog or not and make my vote, so you can how we don't need subset of the PMT.
And plus well, the subsets wouldn't happen if we asked for it anyway (too complicated to explain perhaps).

King By-Tor wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: King By-Tor wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: King By-Tor wrote: Ah! It's the boss!! *hides* Hey Alex, Im quite excellent, but I couldn't sleep so I got up at 5:30 and I'm just waiting for other people to awaken. It's 8am now . Editing some photos, getting ready to do two interviews next week - and all that - and all that. Sounds good. Whom are you interviewing? @Harry - why did it matter so much that your review be first? I understand the importance of having it first, or early anyways when it comes to new albums, but why did it have to be first? I don't really know entirely to be honest. I guess (and it's most likely) that it's just about wanting PA to have that kind of "on top of and up to date on prog" image of the site and I was tipped to review the album the day of it's release (as I obtained a legal promotional copy of the album not legally available to the general public a few weeks before hand). Promos are sweet... I love 'em You could still review the album now and give it an honest review

I could do that, indeed, just wouldn't be a promo review anymore

LinusW wrote: Cool presents. Got mostly money, but some books, perfume and other beauty/hygiene products (like I need it! ) and some cool tea etc. etc.

Money is always good. I got money from all of my extended family, but my parents bought me the additional drums to my set.

It's awesome having acoustic and electronic drums available now.

Even promos need HONEST reviews, and bands need to learn to suck it up... seriously! Unless the review is just sl*gging them they should take the critique, shrug it off and move on.

My Unitopia review was from a promo and it was written a month and a half ago, of course it was only posted today because I didn't write their bio until yesterday... but you know what I mean

King By-Tor wrote: Even promos need HONEST reviews, and bands need to learn to suck it up... seriously! Unless the review is just sl*gging them they should take the critique, shrug it off and move on. My Unitopia review was from a promo and it was written a month and a half ago, of course it was only posted today because I didn't write their bio until yesterday... but you know what I mean

I agree entirely with this.

As a composer/musician, I prefer that people be 100% honest with reviews of any work, let alone my own.

I expect Torman Maxt reviews!

King By-Tor wrote: Even promos need HONEST reviews, and bands need to learn to suck it up... seriously! Unless the review is just sl*gging them they should take the critique, shrug it off and move on. My Unitopia review was from a promo and it was written a month and a half ago, of course it was only posted today because I didn't write their bio until yesterday... but you know what I mean

I getcha man, but I felt I was really being put into a position of the review had to be very positive, or just no review at all, and of course, being the first time I was ever tipped to do a promo review, I just turned down the review, because obviously the band wouldn't use my review for their own promotional purposes if it wasn't positive enough to their liking anyway.