Tito wrote:I just listen to some of this interview and I want it put on the record that Andrew J. McNiece/MelodicRock.com owe all of their success to one, Jonathan Cain. Per the interview, the Jonathan Cain interview in 1996/1997 helped accelerate the amount of traffic to the website. Cain, being the generous person he is, kept in contact with McNiece and gave Andrew inside information during the Perry saga including informing McNiece of the official seperation with Perry which gave McNiece the opportunity to break the Perry leaving story. That breaking news took this website to the next level and keeps it there to this day. Bottom line, had Cain not given McNiece this crucial information, let alone the earlier interview, this site would not exist today.
Now, a 13 year old story may only get you so far, regardless of how big the story is. But the fuel that kept this site going for that long was the other interviews the band gave McNiece through the years and other breaking news they fed McNiece because he "got in good with them"...AND HE BLEW IT! You, AJM, short-clotheslined them and sided with a dime a dozen singer. You should've stayed neutral (not even sided with them although that would have been the smart play) but you decided to go with Soto and no longer care about them. You think you would be more loyal to the person and the band that helped, no, MADE this site. Instead you let people trash them, Neal and Cain in particular, with unfounded personal assaults. And you wonder why they don't talk to you anymore? And why your "97" for Revelation wasn't good enough? Not to rain on your parade on the eve of MR Fest II, but you can't tell me an Arnel and Journey interview in 2008 or even 2009 wouldn't have helped this site's cause. Talk about what have you done for me lately.
I can relate to the position Andrew is in, and really, it's standard that bands tend to have egos involved, and those egos want entirely positive converage, and sometimes when they work with you on something it can create the misimpression on their part that you are now "on their team" so to speak, when in fact everyone involved on both ends is giving something to get something. The band gives its time to get coverage for new work, and the writer gives his time and site resources to get an interview that will draw people so he can sell advertising. But writers don't work for bands, and if we can't feel free to say whatever we have to say - positive, negative or whatever - they how can we possibly serve the needs of our readership? It's tricky. Andrew is just one of many who go through this all the time.
Sterling
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:34 am
Great to see you pop up this past week! Stay in touch more often you bastard. 
