FW: Feedback on Quad rehearsal demos

["O'Neal, Kevin W." <Kevin.ONeal@vtmednet.org>]

My feedback to flashspud on the Quad rehearsal demos.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	O'Neal, Kevin W. 
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:28 PM
> To:	'flashspud@yahoo.com'
> Subject:	Feedback on Quad rehearsal demos
> 
> Just want to provide Pete with some feedback he requested on the Quad
> demo's he recently posted on his Web site.
> 
> First and foremost, many, many thanks for all the work Pete does for his
> web page.  The insight is impossible to beat, and is priceless.  THANK YOU
> PETE!
> 
> Secondly, Thanks again to Pete for providing music via his web.  Either
> free or for-fee, the downloads are great.  Please continue to do this.  We
> drink Pete's music like a starving desert roamer who just found water.
> 
> Lastly, I think the Quad demos are spectacular.  I'm very psyched to see
> the final production.  The characters/singers seem to have captured the
> "attitude" of Quad quite nicely.  They have that "sneer" that is Quad.
> Now, if I could just stop John's bass line from playing in my head (it is
> in my head, isn't it?) while I listen to the demos.
> 
> I have to ask.  Why the change in lyrics?  The only reason I can come up
> with is to make it more of a PG type of affair, or to make it less
> politically threatening.
> While obviously Pete has the right to do what he wants, and to do what he
> feels is best, I personally would have liked to see the lyrics ("you
> disappear just like the Lesbians and Queers" or "beaten up by Blacks")
> remain in the final production.  If it's controversial, than so be it.
> Life is too PC as it is.  We need to join together to shake things back
> up.  The snow in the little glass Christmas scene ornament has settled.
> Wasn't it always more fun to shake it and see the storm???
> 
> Respectfully,
> Kevin W. O'Neal
> "Kevin in VT"