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Alberto Muņoz 
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 26 2006
Location: Mexico
Status: Offline
Points: 3577
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 Posted: April 16 2009 at 16:53 |
 King By-Tor wrote:
Alberto Muņoz wrote:
Being Senior Member have his advantages:
1.- You still can write reviews and if you don't like it you can PM an Admin to do the ugly job to erase, not you.
2.- You can be absence from the forum and from write reviews a long period of time and you can return and nothing came wrong with that.
3.- You can propose bands to be added and you do not have to evaluate, you simply put the enough info and samples and someone else do the job.
So, have the membership of Senior Member really have his advantages
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Aka - you have no responsabilities and can say whatever you want about the collaborators 
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Queen By-Tor
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: September 13 2006
Location: Xanadu
Status: Offline
Points: 16111
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 16:51 |
Alberto Muņoz wrote:
Being Senior Member have his advantages:
1.- You still can write reviews and if you don't like it you can PM an Admin to do the ugly job to erase, not you.
2.- You can be absence from the forum and from write reviews a long period of time and you can return and nothing came wrong with that.
3.- You can propose bands to be added and you do not have to evaluate, you simply put the enough info and samples and someone else do the job.
So, have the membership of Senior Member really have his advantages
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Aka - you have no responsabilities and can say whatever you want about the collaborators
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Alberto Muņoz
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 26 2006
Location: Mexico
Status: Offline
Points: 3577
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 16:35 |
Being Senior Member have his advantages:
1.- You still can write reviews and if you don't like it you can PM an Admin to do the ugly job to erase, not you.
2.- You can be absence from the forum and from write reviews a long period of time and you can return and nothing came wrong with that.
3.- You can propose bands to be added and you do not have to evaluate, you simply put the enough info and samples and someone else do the job.
So, have the membership of Senior Member really have his advantages
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Alberto Muņoz
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 26 2006
Location: Mexico
Status: Offline
Points: 3577
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 16:29 |
avestin wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Negoba wrote:
Maybe you need to get out some new albums to review, man!!!
Or I might even catch up. I do 1 or 2 a day. Which one should I do this afternoon? Russian Circles or Ocean Machine? |
I write 1-3 reviews a day. I don't necessarily post them that day, but I write them. If I dumped all the reviews I have stored up, I'd make Sean Trane look like a newbie.
Okay, maybe not quite that...
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How do you have time for that?
Between work and studies, personal affairs to take care of and a very limited time for myself, I don't have time for reviewing much and I have a small stock of promo's to review.
I personally need time to review as I don't like to just write a short thing but rather put time and effort into it like many others do here (including you) and so it takes me time to write them.
I really envy all those who seem to have time for this.
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Me too Avestin, Me too....
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el dingo
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 08 2008
Location: Norwich UK
Status: Offline
Points: 7053
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 13:37 |
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Yeah, but what's on your monitor on your sig pic?  |
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam
Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
Status: Offline
Points: 29630
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 13:21 |
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I review for the sake of turning folks on, I read for the sake of being turned on....
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Vibrationbaby
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 13 2004
Status: Offline
Points: 6898
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 13:09 |
el dingo wrote:
DamoXt7942 wrote:
I wonder why some of veteran proggers worthy for being collaborators can't (or don't) be collaborators.
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Can't speak for the rest of the vets Damo but as an (ex at the moment) professional writer I'd prefer to selfishly enjoy the site than write reviews or whatever.
You know the saying a builder doesn't finish work, go home and build a brick wall in his garden... it's that sort of thing for me.
Anyway, just about everything I've got (and I've got a heck of a lot) has been reviewed by someone else on PA - my two cents wouldn't add much, I feel.
And as for attempting to be a collaborator, I am to the Internet what the Venus de Milo is to sleeves.
Mind you, If the title of psychedelic/hard rock/Ladbroke Grove scene specialist was up for grabs, I'd kill for it.
Be interesting to hear what any of my fellow oldies think about this. |
The reason I don`t write that many reviews apart from not really having that much time is for the very reason that you mention above, what is my two cents going to matter when there`s, say, when there are over 700 reviews for Dark Side Of The Moon. I actually wrote a review for it just for fun to see what would come out of my head. I did the same for Mike Oldfield`s Tubular Bells and Tales From Topographic Oceans and it kind of suprised me how they turned out. Now I try to review albums with less than 30 ratings so as not to become redundant. There`s at least 20 - 30 albums that have been reviewed by me alone on the site. I think I`ll just pull something at random this evening out of the dark recesses of my collection and review it no matter what it is.
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Epignosis
Special Collaborator
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Joined: December 30 2007
Location: Raeford, NC
Status: Offline
Points: 32524
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 12:05 |
micky wrote:
DamoXt7942 wrote:
I wonder why some of veteran proggers worthy for being collaborators can't (or don't) be collaborators.
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many have been offered and refused.. knowing it isn't just a cute tag... it means work.. and getting involved in putting your ass on the line. Everyone has an opinion when it doesn't matter hahah.. when it does ..some don't want the headache. Make no mistake... it is a headache. 
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I know! Rico won't stop harassing me! He calls me at 3 AM to ask if I evaluated a certain band! He threatens to send people to "meet and greet" me if I don't write bios on time! And worst of all, he says Kansas isn't even prog! 
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micky
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: October 02 2005
Location: .
Status: Offline
Points: 46833
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 10:50 |
DamoXt7942 wrote:
I wonder why some of veteran proggers worthy for being collaborators can't (or don't) be collaborators.
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many have been offered and refused.. knowing it isn't just a cute tag... it means work.. and getting involved in putting your ass on the line. Everyone has an opinion when it doesn't matter hahah.. when it does ..some don't want the headache. Make no mistake... it is a headache.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Raff
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: July 29 2005
Location: None
Status: Offline
Points: 24429
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 05:48 |
If you ever wanted to join the Heavy Prog team, you'd be most welcome  !
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el dingo
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 08 2008
Location: Norwich UK
Status: Offline
Points: 7053
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 04:48 |
DamoXt7942 wrote:
I wonder why some of veteran proggers worthy for being collaborators can't (or don't) be collaborators.
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Can't speak for the rest of the vets Damo but as an (ex at the moment) professional writer I'd prefer to selfishly enjoy the site than write reviews or whatever.
You know the saying a builder doesn't finish work, go home and build a brick wall in his garden... it's that sort of thing for me.
Anyway, just about everything I've got (and I've got a heck of a lot) has been reviewed by someone else on PA - my two cents wouldn't add much, I feel.
And as for attempting to be a collaborator, I am to the Internet what the Venus de Milo is to sleeves.
Mind you, If the title of psychedelic/hard rock/Ladbroke Grove scene specialist was up for grabs, I'd kill for it.
Be interesting to hear what any of my fellow oldies think about this.
Edited by el dingo - April 16 2009 at 04:57
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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DamoXt7942
Special Collaborator
Joined: October 15 2008
Location: Okayama, Japan
Status: Offline
Points: 17493
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 04:19 |
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I wonder why some of veteran proggers worthy for being collaborators can't (or don't) be collaborators.
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Vibrationbaby
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 13 2004
Status: Offline
Points: 6898
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Posted: April 15 2009 at 13:34 |
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You mean PA is military? You can get busted down in rank? Sounds like fun. I got forced into a desk job in the air force for too many fast low passes including the one on my avatar.
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stonebeard
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 27 2005
Location: NE Indiana
Status: Offline
Points: 28057
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Posted: April 14 2009 at 21:09 |
Better question: what's the most fun way to be forced back into being a senior member? This could get interesting. 
Edited by stonebeard - April 14 2009 at 21:09
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Padraic
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: February 16 2006
Location: Pennsylvania
Status: Offline
Points: 31169
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Posted: April 14 2009 at 20:38 |
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Answer: do my laundry for a month.
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micky
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: October 02 2005
Location: .
Status: Offline
Points: 46833
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Posted: April 14 2009 at 16:18 |
Chris S wrote:
I am off to Hawaii tomorrow and will be doing some cursory work enquiries. You never know but I probably have more chance of getting served a soup sandwich than being given a job offer
ps
CF for Prog Reviewer?......YES! |
crap I didn't see this earlier... hopefully you caught something 
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Vibrationbaby
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 13 2004
Status: Offline
Points: 6898
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Posted: April 14 2009 at 15:39 |
I work for myself.
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Chris S
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: June 09 2004
Location: Front Range
Status: Offline
Points: 7028
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Posted: April 10 2009 at 02:01 |
I am off to Hawaii tomorrow and will be doing some cursory work enquiries. You never know but I probably have more chance of getting served a soup sandwich than being given a job offer
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CF for Prog Reviewer?......YES!
Edited by Chris S - April 10 2009 at 02:02
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el dingo
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 08 2008
Location: Norwich UK
Status: Offline
Points: 7053
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Posted: April 10 2009 at 01:09 |
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Me too. It's not a good time to be a jourmalist in Gordon Brown's glorious kingdom of the greater UK.
All I can get is part time work as a chef. I won't say where I work but if any members come to Norwich to eat avoid the lasagne or anything containing pasta, just in case I made it (I can't do Italian - just can't get it right).
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Raff
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: July 29 2005
Location: None
Status: Offline
Points: 24429
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Posted: April 09 2009 at 14:10 |
I don't know if this is of any interest to anyone, but I am unemployed too... courtesy of Uncle Sam's immigration laws !
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