Saturday, November 26, 2005

Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:50:52 GMT

Hey Guys,

I'm very sorry I'm not allowing any local bands to leave comments on our myspace page or linking to your band in our Florida Musicians page but unless you put a link to Florida Entertainment Scene, I am not going out of my way to help promote you. Of course If you link to us I will return the favor and put a link to your website in our Florida Musicians Page.

Now before you say I'm a Richard, I am going to tell you why. There is this band from Orlando, I won't name them but a couple of months ago we reviewed their CD (gave them one hell of a good review too) Now I did this as a favor to someone who is good friends with the band. I also did this ahead of other local bands who have asked us to review their music.

They played a show at Hard Rock Live and hired this out of state photographer who promptly alienated every photographer at the show by asking them to prove they are a working professional photographer and then tells everyone "I'm the only one who can shoot their set." Now Florida Entertainment Scene was there and so were other local publications including a very well known local print publication. I told the venue about what this band was doing they were like these fucking guys play LiveWire here's a pass go shoot them.

Make a long story short the out of state photographer they hired pissed everyone off and now I'm not doing Richard for local bands until they link to me. I am not the only one who is feeling this way either. A lot of local publications both print and online do not want to cover the Orlando music scene, In part because of the attitude of bands like the one I just told you about.

After being disrespected by a band that I helped to promote and gave a kick ass CD Review it's not worth it to deal with that kind of attitude from a local band.

So the bottom line is You put a link to my website I will be glad to help promote your band in any way I can.

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Saturday, November 26, 2005