Zur zeit, Ich wohne auf Phuket!

Next time I’m on the West Coast, I’ll drop you a line, Robbie. Would be a pleasure to meet you.

You get the door prize for playing peacemaker here.

Any Posh Boy download from iTunes. My suggestion :
the revamped version of Rik L Rik’s Lost Album.

http://strangereaction.com/2011/06/10/symbol-six-the-crowd-channel-three-the-ingrates/

has a review of Jerry Koskie’s appearance in L.A. Looks good, too. Jay Lansford tells me Rabit is doing well, too, but reluctant to “come out and play”.

I hope to get to know Erich, I appreciate the massive effort he puts in. I do know MXV and his heart is in the right place. It’s the bootleggers that I can’t stand!

Sometimes records do go out of print and it is hard for fans to understand why. Without the blogs, Symbol Six would have stayed out of print, even though we always loved it.

For the most part, I don’t see the plethora of mp3′s posted as a threat. Usually the quality is so poor that there is an incentive to seek out a legitimate release, if available.

That said, there are bloggers like Erich and MXV who serve an invaluable role as archivists. Even if my own
tape vault were still intact after 30+ years, many tapes would still be lost to tape disintegration. I have reached out to many bloggers for help and I can’t think of ever being disappointed.

Once again, the bootleggers are a breed apart.

On tracks that we own all the rights, we typically make 20% of a release royalty free for blogs to use.

You know your stuff. Drop me an email and I’ll send you a certificate good for a Symbol Six download from iTunes, “The Posh Boy Sessions”.

Symbol Six have reformed and are tearing up the L.A. scene, playing week in week out. New CD, too, but not on Posh Boy. All power to Dr Strange for their re-issues … we abandoned physical some time ago.

Even before Erich posted this, he failed to sell 100 records. That must be frustrating, a failure even the girl scouts would consider lowly. Naturally he’s looking for anything to deflect blame onto, and he googles and googles until this site pops up. Chronologically this makes as much sense as blaming Obama for the war in Iraq. He posts again and again, re-adjusting his argument each time as his armor is pierces and his credibility trickles away. At his lowest he resorts to attacking the English skills of Europeans (on another blog, I guess as part of some backhanded compliment intended to disparage blogging in its totality while tricking Erich into recognizing him as some sort of fellow gentleman/intellectual). Evidently suffering from hebephrenic schizophrenia, he follows one diatribe with some “friendly” advice about a non-existent technical problem. Realizing he’s picked a fight with an entire subculture he’d assumed to be freeze-dried in his vault, he tries to backpedal and fling shit simultaneously. His pious tone throughout does not change even as he admits he simply couldn’t clear 100 copies of a hot record like the Chiefs that’s famous as shit and was produced by Darby Crash and was on KBD and Bloodstains and has a whole CD out and t-shirts and stuff. (Isn’t MVM the one saturating the market and hurting CD sales? Blog or no blog, you can get anything on Soulseek . . . posting it on a blog like this just gives it added prestige and provides a forum for discussion. Posting the entire CD might be questionable . . . but Erich didn’t.) Even after Erich took down a song, MXT kept whining, spamming, even sockpuppeting like an insane person (which is obvious since all of the comments in his favor .

Well I guess we know what kind of punk he is: the unnecessary kind. MXM: middleman of the grey areas, a profit-diverting “cool” merchant who sees punks as a captive audience or fanatical cult in which selling fetishes makes him high priest. A shameless huckster turned punk rock hall monitor who thinks he can shame us. A groupie who fucks for free, then charges for the herpes, cuz they used to be inside a rock star. A perennial hanger-on who takes advantage of the casual business style of musicians to vanity-press himself some instant credibility (if not profits, which in MMVs case seem beyond his reach . . . 100? . . . but he seems to have rationalized bootlegging in between writhes on the cross of “true fandom”). So it seems that, even in punk, maybe especially in punk, there exists, in between the bands (not MVC though after a handshake he feels empowered to speak for them even to the point of alienating their fanbase), serious biznesspeople (not MVC though he appropriates the opinions of the most reactionary and retirement-aged amongst them in hopes of being mistaken for one), and the fans (maybe once MVC, then his dupes, now his enemy) a substrata of bloodsucking pimps flooding the market with extraneous junk that, “official” or not, is there just to give them bragging rights (and maybe bag a quick buck but MXV seems to be going for psychological compensation here). Bragging rights turn into bitching rights real quick. MXV, you are a sick and evil man, a traitor to punk and a hypocrite to all of humanity. Erich, it may be the nature of a blog that spans metal and punk to be a volatile and misanthropic stew. But since you are credited with pioneering the cookie monster style of vocals back in the ’80s I’m sure you can handle it. You may wind up battling MXV at the top of a waterfall. Remind him of own words here and he’ll probably jump.