Hi Steph, I appreciate your comments and take them to heart.
I'm not trying to be condescending, I just have my hands tied right now by
the current SBL situation as far as releasing new music samples on the web,
we are in a settlement to sell my band name "SBL" to the old vocalist Geri
for their new project, and in the meantime I am just letting the world know
that we are still working on new projects. if you would like to hear some of
the new music I would be happy to share it with you privately.
Again, sorry to come across as a boor, this was not my intention.
Rick Torres
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>From: steph99 <beleza@speakeasy.net>
>To: Rick Torres <sblrocks@pacbell.net>
>Subject: Re: photo of our new vocalist.
>Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2002, 1:34 PM
>
> Listen hon, this is the second time you've posted about your trophy vocalist,
> and while she's probably quite talented and a very nice person, your
> presentation of her is really getting to me. First of all, I don't know who
you
> are or why I should be interested in the fact that you have a new vocalist.
> (ah, so you're a supreme being of leisure. you could add that to the email to
> add a little relevance. Call me a cavedweller but I didn't know that from
just
> your name. I think it's a little ballsy to assume everyone on a 700-person
> list-serv would know that, or care.)
>
> Second, the page you point to just has a huge picture of this girl, and a
> statement that she can sing. And the last page you sent out had pictures of
> this girl frolicking on the beach. No bio, no sound clips, no information, no
> quotes to even it out, just a visual. And the comment in your email that she
> sings better than she looks? Did it occur to you that that might come across
as
> condescending? Would you give the same treatment and commentary to a
> male vocalist? It reminds me of the story of how Jill Scott chose a record
> label. They sent out lots of blank cds with no picture, no bio, no name, just
> contact info. The labels who wrote back saying "wow this girl has talent.
> what does she look like?" got the old thanks-but-no-thanks. Labels that
weren't
> interested in appearance went into the maybe pile.
>
> Your vocalist may not mind this sort of representation, but I can tell you as
a
> potential audience member fairly representative of a certain demographic, I
> don't like it at all and it doesn't make me want to listen to your music. In
> fact it puts an odd shadow over all your work, to me. Take this as an
> aggravated but constructive (cuntstructive?) and pretty darn informed
criticism:
> Put more emphasis on the music, and less on your vocalist's lips and freckles,
> please. Can we elevate a little, folks?
>
> Ok, enough of this, I have some bras to burn.
>
> full of vitriol and a heart of gold,
> 99
>
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Rick Torres wrote:
>
>> follow this link to a recent photo of our new vocalist....
>>
>> http://www.ricktorres.com/story.html
>>
>> ...she sings better than she looks :-)
>>
>
>
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