Ayo!

Just poppin in to say how funny it is that people will just blatantly post comments on another artist's page that basically says:

"F#@k this guy!  You were tryin' to find my sound and heard them first by accident!  I'm over here CLICK ME!"

Okay okay of course it's not that bad.  And, for most artists on myspace in the first place, the whole purpose of being on here is to reach you guys.  That logically means that, for any hungry artist, you're gonna use all means possible to get to other ears.  So:

"Hey thanks for the add.  Diggin' the music.  Check out my page and let me know what you think"
*With a little/dope/creative image or somethin'*

...is not bad at all BUT:

"WE GRINDIN' YOU BASTARDS CHECK OUT OUR PAGE!"
*Written in huge bold print above (and below) an image that takes up half of the page*

.....is some blatant a$$ $h!t.


I was friend surfin' and noticed that this is a common thing and it made me laugh.  Think about it like this:

  You're at the merch table at a show.  You went to the show to see XYZ becuase you dig their music and you heard they have a live show.  After XYZ get's off the stage they mosey over to the table and you begin to have a short conversation with them.  Usual things like "Good sh!t man" or "yeah I heard you guys are (fill in action here)".  Everything is chill.  Then suddenly, some dude with a 10 gallon neon flashing hat bursts into your conversation honking an air horn and holding a hand full of CD's that he's merchin' off.

"This guys okay but have you heard THIS?"  He shoves the cd so close to your face that you can read the copyright paragraph.  Then he shoves an earbud into your ear, scrolls through his ipod, and plays his favorite track just loud enough for you not to be able to hear the music in the club clearly.

  No one's gonna do that in the real world but to quote Professor Eboneezer Freshens, "The internet makes heroes of us all".

Come to think of it, if I saw that guy I might actually buy a cd for the sheer funny factor. 

A'aight suckas, see you at the next AB's show.  I'll be the guy in the 11 gallon hat with tv screens playin our video and 5 air horns sewn onto the top.  Let's see how your hat matches up with that son!!!!!

Lettuce,

Willie Evans Jr.