John Ivan wrote on Tue, 21 November 2006 12:21 |
Brad, am I to understand that Dan was ASKED to leave? Over this Business with this Max clown? and Fletcher, who I think is a great great cat but who I think over stepped? Is this because a certain digital Audio company is not happy? I'm not accusing, simply asking.
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Yes, you are accusing. You're not even being subtle about it. Dan was ASKED to leave because he and "the President" of Lavry Engineering became abusive with the management of the website, they had enough of the Lavry's bullshit and fired the guy.
There is no Oliver Stone like agenda here.
I was not part of the decision process... but when it was run past me [as decisions of this nature are] I rubber stamped it in a heartbeat as I too was sick and fucking tired of his/their bullshit.
I have 10 moderators with whom I have to work... which doesn't count Brad and Bruno. Brad is an administrator. Brad and I talk about once a week to discuss what has been going on, what we can do better, what we should keep an eye on, blah, blah, blah. Bruno is Brad's guy... I have never spoken to him either verbally nor by email. Eventually I will, but at the moment we have yet to meet. The other 10 can range from "can you take a look at this and tell me what you think" to ruining my day by ripping management a new asshole because they haven't been paid in what they consider a timely manner. Neither here nor there.
But I have to say... for the amount of traffic Lavry's forum drove the pain in the ass far outweighed the benefits from my perspective. To that end, I explained to my boss that unless they were going to come up with a significant raise for me they weren't paying me enough to take Dan "+1"s bullshit and either [my boss] could deal with Dan or I was out of here. I don't need the money bad enough to warrant the time suck that was "backstage Lavry".
Now... as for the cowtow to the advertiser or the large purple company from Santa Monica... Apogee does not advertise, nor shall they be permitted to advertise for the remainder of the year. After the end of this year we will review whether or not their advertising may or may not be admissible. When the nonsense started Apogee was not an advertiser... and even though Mercenary Audio and Apogee Electronics have been working on a "co-op" campaign of ads, they were not permitted on R/E/P for exactly the reason outlined, an intimation of impropriety.
To whit we have our next contestant on "As the Hard Drive Turns"
malice wrote on Tue, 21 November 2006 14:27 |
He was not hidding his aggenda, as Brad is not hidding his crusade against the "mastering mafia" as Fletcher is not hidding his bias toward the gear manufacturers he doesn't pimp, as Steve Albini doesn't hide his dislike of majors.
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Fletcher works at Mercenary Audio. As of January 1, 2006 he no longer held the "center office". That office belongs to Jay Fitz. Fletcher has a desk in the "Redrum" [the 'marketing' department]. That office is shared with Samara Krugman, M-A's director of marketing and public relations.
I spend the lion's share of my time in a little room in the back of the building just off the warehouse. That room is called "The Methods and Applications Laboratory". You will hear more about it as days go on as I spend my time in that room developing content for the website that will be going up sometime in the spring of '07.
The main thrust of that room is for me to work on product development with different manufacturers [can you say "Mercenary Edition"... I thought you could] as well as auditioning and devising application notes for new product to be carried by M-A. Get it... "Methods and Applications Laboratory"... where I devise "application notes" for the stuff Mercenary sells.
If you think my "bias" towards manufacturer's that Mercenary doesn't sell isn't because their gear isn't up to my standards, or because their gear isn't something special [like I have 3 things in my rack that do 98.7% of what this new thing does which in my book makes the new thing irrelevant] then you need to do some serious fucking soul searching.
One of the reasons I got this gig was because I'm usually pretty good at separating church and state. As I am the arbitor [for the most part] of what M-A does and does not carry from the sonic/technical perspective [Jay Fitz deals with the political aspects... I have no fucking patience for that shit anymore], I would say that it is a pretty safe bet that the reason that M-A doesn't pimp their shit is because it don't measure up... but its cool if you want to read some kind of evil conspiracy theory into the fold... we are in the entertainment business, if that entertains you all I can say is "Mazel Tov"