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The website at www.lazland.org has two cracking album reviews for you this evening, with Italian maestro Inner Prospekt and SF Bay Area incredible band, Inner Ear Brigade.

Tomorrow, Saturday 9th November 2024, sees the sixth episode of Lazland on Progzilla Radio, the UK's only 24-hour progressive rock station. At 16:00 UK GMT, which is a handy 23:00 for my loyal listeners in Hanoi, 11:00 in New York, 08:00 in Los Angeles, and 17:00 in Valletta.

Yesterday's broadcast, which was superly spiffing, is now available as a podcast at Progzilla.

There are four new album reviews on the website this week, namely:

I really like Steve (Lazland) and appreciate what's he doing, and accept the explanation. I responded to a complaint and didn't have all the context. No big deal to me as Steve responded like a gentlemen. To draw out the fart analogy, it's at most a fart in a teacup. Like a fart, such things blow over even if they leave some residual stench. I would have said more but I didn't want to draw it out [insert farting joke here]. I wish I had chosen some words more carefully, mostly the big it up, I just could not think of the right expression, but I am multi-tasking in the mornings here. Hard to totally focus on one thing sometimes.

Edited by Logan - October 25 2024 at 10:57

Real tension relievers too!

Valdez wrote: I just farted.

^ It's an offensive term, but I mean in the sense of being hungry for website traffic. Money whore (someone who is hungry for money) is a common term in my parts. Context matters and I have not read that and will accept that about this post. That said, this is not the first time that concerns have been raised. I am more than happy to leave it there, and do appreciate you taking the time to respond and explain.

I'm not looking for an argument either, Steve. Concerns have been raised with me and now I have raised a concern here. If you feel no need to promote your site here, okay, fine on the whole that you do. I had not thought that you would be a traffic-whore, so to speak. I continue to wish you well in your endeavour.

I know you have expressed disdain for this site's workings long before your site was set up, and my understanding was that that dissatisfaction played a part in you setting up your site. You also seemed to care about this site's reputation from how I have read you, but disparaging public comments about it don't help this site.

If this were my site, I would do things very differently as well. There has been space for constructive comments on improving this site (there are significant limitations to what one changes one might expect or realistically hope for). Whether you feel the need to promote your site here or not, the disregard/ negativity you have expressed for the teams and decisions has been a concern of various people.

It's not easy being on a team, it is voluntary, and I would like to see more respect shown for their efforts and acceptance when one disagrees. Many a site would not permit people who criticise that site to continuously promote their own site.

By the way, I quite commonly am fine with adding certain collaborations with other artists that one would not expect to be included on its own due to its lack of progressive musical merits under an artist name. Of course mistakes happen, especially since any registered member can add albums. And of course one can report issues to the Errors and Omissions team if something has been added erroneously.

Edited by Logan - October 21 2024 at 13:46

I have had complaints about such comments. Honestly, it strikes me as poor etiquette to use this site to promote and big-up your own site while exhibiting disdain for this site's workings. Needing time to arrive at a decision can be for various reasons. It's harder when we have so many teams. there are going to be disagreements. You felt strongly that D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings should be added, and yet to me and others it clearly lacked the progressive/Prog merits (the personnel being its only merit).

Edited by Logan - October 21 2024 at 09:22