I wrote a profile a while ago about a local band returning to the scene. They did not like it, and sent this letter to my boss. Clearly, amazing. What amazes me even more is this band never ever ever even played a show. So, I wasted a profile on them.
Names have been X’s out, but just ask, I can tell you.
letter to editor
Dear Editor
Thank you for helping to expose the new xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx to the local community. But your article was rather disappointing in regards that it said little or nothing about the creativity it takes to make a genuine heartfelt project work and getting it accepted by the public. We had asked your corespondent NOT to print certain specific material but it was printed anyway. To that carelessness the article made the band look as if it was still drifting in immaturity rather than having grown through lifes trials to once again be placed back on its origonal foundation of musical genius. 1999 saw some rave revues coming from local newpapers regarding the garage band genius that (LAME CD TITLE) expressed to listeners. And to say the least the three years it took to create that CD were times of great understanding and co-operation with each other so that the heartfelt elements of expression could be captured for the purpose of reflecting how we as individuals grew in life…and in music.
The article took cheap shots by looking more at the problems of the past rather than explored the possibilities of the future. This band is a placement of direction for those involved but will also be an image of idealism for many who wish to escape the entrapments of their own box. To soil the clean slate of the new by printing information of old bones will only give the reader a false perspective of what we are now really about. The public idea of our image is the target of our new goal. We wish to be able to impress a new image of creativity but won’t be able to achieve that goal if the media can’t co-operate to print the best possible information. I for one was hoping to use the new article for my own promotional purposes. But now that you’ve printed material that was requested to be ommitted from the start, I wonder where the next best possible base will be to launch the truth of our project so that the public will accept the band for its music rather than its personal infrastructure.
Regrouping the rebuilding a project is like rebuilding a community after a tornado. If the site is declared a disastor area before it can be examined for potential new construction, then nobody will have the desire to be a part of it!
thank you
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