Haul-E-Weird   Offline  -  Artist  -  12-03-07 07:21 PM  -  16 years ago
	fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Ah yes, that old reverse psychology thing. Works every time. ;-)

	peterpuck9   Offline  -  Participant  -  12-03-07 01:36 PM  -  16 years ago
	fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d So you only listen to *half* of his podcast then! :-) ........Pete

	kturet   Offline  -  Artist  -  12-03-07 08:09 AM  -  16 years ago
	fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d [He's saying in a post in the thread that he's so done with me. I say let him say those mean words about me. Let him say how bad my songs are.] Now, come on, David, I've never said anything bad about your songs! But then, I've never listened to them. Let me get back to you on that! turetzkysyndrome.com

	Marcus Tee   Offline  -  Participant & Donator  -  12-03-07 02:04 AM  -  16 years ago
	fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Oh, So you're Dave Tanny. Marcus Tee

	davidtanny   Offline  -  Artist & D.J.  -  12-03-07 12:26 AM  -  16 years ago
	fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d A hot topic on the Mad Music Archive is titled "Return to Demento" I'm not going to post excerpts here. Just read what he has to say here: www.themadmusicarchive.com/thread.aspx?TopicID=2614 Ken has enough of a twisted mind to generate support for the topic that he's criticizing, namely, copycat podcasters and web radio hosts, in such a backhanded fashion that it turns out that it's generating interest from the silent readers who are wondering what the heck are those copycat podcasters and web radio hosts are. Here's the story. Critics of a subject are providing free publicity. I said in some blogger that I thought some acts like Linkin Park and Eveneseence suck. Guess what the readers do? They buy their songs, and discover that they like what I criticize. This is Ken's way of generating support for the copycat funny music podcasts and webhosts: by criticizing them to generate support for the things he's criticizing. He's saying in a post in the thread that he's so done with me. I say let him say those mean words about me. Let him say how bad my songs are. Let him say how rigged the MMDT20 is. Let him say that my website is a clusterf--k. This is his blog. He has the right to say whatever he wants to say. I said how bad Alicia Keys is. This is what critics do. They say bad things about the subjects to generate support for the subjects in a reverse psychological method. whether the critic really likes the subject he's criticizingt or not. I'm not going to boycott his stuff or take his songs off the ballot. Ken has the balls to say how he feels without being in fear of being bullied. Just take it or leave it. I say that Ken Turetzky is a better man for saying those thoughts about me and my copycat funny music podcast. I'm not going to ask anyone to defend me, so don't, but a few posters are on the forum. I don't want him to retract anything he says. I don't want him to be pressured to puss out and apologize. I'm a big enough man, or at least half man/half something else, or whatever, to take it. What the people are saying to Ken are on their own. I have nothing to do with this. People are asking themselves who are those copycat webcasters are? I can tell you to search them off on your own yourself or ask around. I'm not going to name names. The copycat podcasters are literally everywhere ranging from totally geek to morning show type comedy to whatever is in between. After all that, will they still vote for Ken Turetzky's songs on the MMDT20 ballot? Get your brains over here and tell me so. www.dt20.dfsxradio.com/ If saying nice things don't generate support, say something mean and generate some controversy. That gets people riled up and they start acting up. This criticism gets people interested in the subject that the person is criticizing, and they go out and check it out for themselves to see if they agree or disagree. So what did Ken's critcism do when he took on me as a target? He generated support for the copycat podcasters and web hosts. This is what a critic's job is supposed to do. Am I right about this? So what happened to all of the scathing criticism about Dr. Demento since my tirade post two months ago? Did his streaming show subscriber count zoom up in response to this? Are people enjoying his $2 a show streams? This is what people do about critics: respond by going against what they say. I haven't seen anybody top what I said two months ago. The scathing criticism got bigger and bigger before my tirade. Maybe I got all of the other critics to pipe down and try to help support Dr. Demento by going against what I say. Now back to me. A few people in that same thread are still pissed off over what I said here: www.groups.google.com/group/rec.music.dementia/browse_thread/thread/de447d2356ca7529#11c857eb4e2d6d00 www.groups.google.com/group/rec.music.dementia/browse_thread/thread/96c846e6e4ad6da2#cba812ca503dad64 Are these people who are pissed off at me responding by joining the D.O.C. at drdemento.com? Are they buying his $2 streams? Are more people joining his Demento Society? Are they buying his xxth Anniversary Collections? Are they sending in more comedy recordings from other artists for him to play? Are they getting off of their duffs and calling the radio stations's program directors and asking him to get his show back on a radio station in Los Angeles and other cities? That's what supporters could be doing, are they? The truth is, I went too far in my rants and I'm sorry for how I said the things that I was criticizing. Ken's rant about me was nowhere close to my rant about Dr. Demento. I've been a fan of his show for almost 30 years, longer than most anybody on this newsgroup, dating way back to the silver age of television when I got so fed up with a Jeffersons rerun that I flipped off the TV and turned on the classic rock station, only to hear funny songs and stuff. This is a fan asking for support for Dr. Demento and to initiate change in the way things have been going for the past year. We need to get his company to rethink their ways and let the affilliates stream the shows again. This is a fair way to being the healing process between his show and his fanbase. If people like the show they heard on a station for free on a station, they can hear it again by going to drdemento.com and paying $2 to hear it again. This is how things work with the fanbase. Again, I am sorry for my past posts. david tanny