Got an e-mail from one Kevin Collen:
“Your review of Joe’s Garage was good, but I must disagree, and add one thing. The music was the hidden gem of the album. While most were listening to the story line, which you were right, is genius, they missed the never before seen chops of that band. Keep it Greasy ends in 21/16 time… FZ’s use of Xenochronous composition techniques, and most of all Vinnie Colaiuta’s unbeatable drum chops. A real dissappointment to see the absence of his name on the mentions list.”
Well Kevin: you’re right (on both counts)! To my defense, most of the reviews in the music section I wrote several years ago when I was young and foolish (insert old and foolish joke here). I actually disagree myself with some of the stuff I penned down back then. Which leads me to my next Big Announcement: I’m currently modifying the discography part to a format similar to this weblog, which means that visitors will be able to comment/write their own reviews to each and every album. How’s that?
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Looking forward to seeing that myself. It’s interesting to see what other readers takes are on your own ideas and thoughts. Now if only I could get some to join my place and comment as well, lol. Can’t wait to see the new discography in action!
Well it’ll take a while, since it involves one hell of a lot of copy/pasting… On the topic of having people comment on your site: requiring registering/logging in is probably what is keeping a lot of visitors from doing just that. Out of curiousity: why are you using PHP-Nuke as a CMS? I’ve read nothing but bad things about it. Now Movable Type, now THERE’s a bitchin’ CMS! ;-)
Well, I have always wanted my personal website to be more community oriented, and this just seemed to work out for me. I was already using phpnuke with a buddy elsewhere, and I really like that anyone else can submit their own material. I really didn’t want my site to be just about me. So I built mine to coincide with my IRC channel, and what was going on there at the time…
Then my wife wanted me to set something up for her so she could collect information on wicca and fantasy writing, and keep it stored within the system somehow. phpnuke had all that, encyclopedia setup, download section, the web links area, so it worked for her…
I thought, since I am collection all this Zappa information; writings, photos, files, why not keep it on a system where anyone else can have access to it? So the site was kinda born from that. I would have worked fine with Moveable Type, pMachine or even a Slashdot setup, but the site was born in my head first and kinda dictated to me what it needed! I guess that’s a good way to describe it, it was entirely out of my hands! lol
Oh I get it: you’re a PHP-geek. Happens to the best of us, heheh!