JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum So Where Does Your Song Rank On Ourstage?

(And in the case of Cathy, I still say her complaint is with the people she PAID to enter (i.e. JLSC).. not Ourstage).

No Brian, my problem lies with Ourstage laying down rules then not adhering to them.

"Why are you attacking Ourstage and not JLSC? "
The requirements were Ourstage's,not JLSC's from what
I gather. I could give a rodent's fanny where I place as long as I know the playing field is level. Its actually quite easy for me to say "Oh well, maybe next time." There was great and very deserving talent in the channel, and then there was not. Just like everywhere else in the world of music or anything where opinion is used to rate and rank.
I showed dogs for years...there were better dogs than mine, worse than mine, fair judging and "political" judging at the wrong end of the leash. When I saw a nice dog, I complimented them, and didn't feel so bad about coming in second . If they were over size, I or another handler might have a stick called on them to check their height. ALL dogs were measured in the class if the handler of the dog in question so desired. Ive also judged dog shows and had to be accountable for what I put up. Ready to answer any and all questions regarding my decisions, sometimes having to remember the qualities and faults of 30 or 40 dogs.And you can ask anyone in the Pennsylvania Beagle Gundog Association, or the united Beagle Gundog Federation, I never played the buddy game or politics.

I only used the JPF as an example to make it more understandable and a little closer to home. I'm not "bringing" JPF into it...except for the fact that in the newsletter you make Ourstage sound like the best thing since sliced bread.
It might be sliced, but there is some mold on the crust...hopefully it will develop into penicillin to cure the things ailing the system.

You personally dont seem to like the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, or Sonicbids, or anything that requires a fee. I ain't crazy about fees, either, but sometimes, even when you go to hear a band ya got to pay a cover charge. Even if you know em, even if you sit in with them....and if I do get in for nothing, I make sure I tip the bartenders well....even though all I drink is diet coke.

I may enter some of Ourstages channels just for kicks. Its kinda cool that in a class of 400 you get below the halfway mark...I enjoy listening to the music out there. The different takes of ideas and genres. This JLSC thing was probably a cluster fudge for Ourstage, but if it was they need to step up to the mic and say "I did not have ...." oh wait...that was someone else.

Yes I can take all of this with a big fat grain of salt, but I hate to see injustice,too. And I can laugh about it.

Brian, I e mailed you and Daniel because I thought I could get some answers to my questions. I posted to the forum because I saw similar concerns to my own on here.

If I make a difference, great. If not, at least Im not a blind sheep. I'm the border collie.

Cathy