Let me tell you something, Brian. You have a penchant for throwing around words like "rant", totally out of context. I consider what YOU said to be far more of an indignant rant than anything I said. You make a point of saying that, to your knowledge, you have never read or listened to even one of my compositions. Was that meant to put me in my place, or do you make it a habit of not reading or listening to members songs?

Since you seem to be omnipresent on every thread, you have to glean info from somewhere. How did you discover Andrew as a talent? I have twice mentioned on this thread that I have a song in the top 10 in country. Did you just happen to miss that...the first and second time I posted it???. I could honestly not give a rat's rear that you've discounted/avoided everything I've produced. I still think my interpretation of what you said regarding Bill and me is right on.

Plus, I hardly call what I said a RANT. Since you claim to have read all the preceding posts, then you might have enough common decency about you to REALIZE the guy I made that first post in regard to, obviously has some issues. I clearly stated that he wrote me a note saying that he liked my song...I didn't go into particulars except to say...aw, hell, I'll just re-paste what I wrote, followed by his note to me.

"Coupla weeks ago, I got a note from a guy who said the song I posted in "Spoken Word" was touching as it described where he was a while back (It's about a homeless guy). He asked if he could do a back-up music track. I said I'd be honored."

SORRY BEN I EMAILED YOU ABOUT HELPING YOU BRING OUT YOUR SPOKEN WORD...I THINK THIS PLACE IS SPAM...PS...TRY DELETING YOUR TRACKS, MUSIC, ART...YOU CANNOT...WHY...CAUSE THEY THINK THEY OWN US...I AM VETERAN NOBODY OWNS ME....I PAID MY DUES....TRAVIS

So the "rant" you are referring to (one of them anyway) is from an ex-military, recently homeless man. Is that the best you can do, Brian? Even if it is a RANT by an unfortunate, paranoid patriot, HE didn't post it here. I did, but ONLY to garner information that I could send to him to hopefully appease. I could have gotten have-cocked and told him to go f himself.

Your confidence in your supreme "rightness" in all situations, admissions of error, misspeaking, and apologies be damned, reminds me of one of the FEW times I have seen you even SLIGHTLY admit to being wrong, and that was only to a pro this past WEAK (pun intended)on the mentor thread. Funny thing to me was, the entire time you were administering an undeserved "GROUP" admonishment, you were continuing to do the VERY thing that you deemed worthy of chastisement. No one should take pot shots at the poor lady in distress. Your exact quotes are in red...you closed the thread after you got last word, but you are the king, so... To wit:

At what point did it become permissible to dismiss Redlady's lyric? Most of us, in our responses DIDN'T!

While chastising the critiques in general, and lauding Pat in particular, you thought it perfectly fine to say:

"The difference is that she knows how to critique something, even a very weak lyric, and still find a way to reach a positive result. I think what was most exposed here, was not that Schantell had a weak lyric. It's that SO MANY OF US HAVE WEAK critique skills. As WEAK AS HER LYRIC WAS..."

"Her response made those comments looks just as weak and off base as the weakest link in Schantell's lyric." ((TRULY amazes me that you could say all that after jumping everyone who dismissed her lyric out of hand!)

So, I'm wondering, Brian, were all of those comments considered by you to be postmortem, thereby making them in no way hurtful? Seems to me that is tantamount to saying....

"OK. It is a well-established consensus by now, and we can all agree, that Hiram is fat and ugly, so when I allude to that fact several times in a row in just a moment (in Hiram's presence, no less), please bear in mind that even the Pro gently acknowledged that fact, so when I repeat it, it isn't meant to be construed as pouring salt in the wound!" (All the while saying how much should be learned from Pat's critique...keeping comments constructive and kind).

Very strange, but by no means could there be the slightest thing questionable about it, since you said it (again, while talking down to most of us).