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					<title>Making Music is Like Dating</title>
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					<description>&amp;quot;Making music is sort of like dating. If you see a girl that you think is drop-dead gorgeous, but then you go and talk to her and she is obvious trash, her appearance changes for the worse. Music is similar in that you can love the music, but once the people who make the music turn out to be shitty or uninspiring, the music quickly follows suit.&amp;quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mixerman.net/diaries5.php&quot;&gt;Mixerman
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					<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Making music is sort of like dating. If you see a girl that you think is drop-dead gorgeous, but then you go and talk to her and she is obvious trash, her appearance changes for the worse. Music is similar in that you can love the music, but once the people who make the music turn out to be shitty or uninspiring, the music quickly follows suit.&quot; - <a href="http://www.mixerman.net/diaries5.php">Mixerman</a><br />
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					<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Studio Memory - Nelly Furtado and Neal Pogue</title>
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					<description>When I first started as a runner at Track Record Studios I got to help out on a string day. It was for &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.nellyfurtado.com &quot;&gt;Nelly Furtado&apos;s Loose album and &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.nealhpogue.com/&quot;&gt;Neal Pogue was producing/engineering this session. I was in the North&amp;nbsp;live room with a 16 piece orchestra and being the runner, my job was simply to make sure that all the players had what they needed; music stands, sharpened pencils, working headphones, etc. They didn&apos;t need much and I spent most of the session just sitting in the live room, listening..soaking in the sound of an orchestra, live.. and for Nelly&apos;s album, I don&apos;t recall which song(s) it was for.
It was an awesome day.

Track Record - North Live Room</description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I first started as a runner at Track Record Studios I got to help out on a string day. It was for <a target="_new" href="http://www.nellyfurtado.com ">Nelly Furtado</a>'s Loose album and <a target="_new" href="http://www.nealhpogue.com/">Neal Pogue</a> was producing/engineering this session. I was in the North&nbsp;live room with a 16 piece orchestra and being the runner, my job was simply to make sure that all the players had what they needed; music stands, sharpened pencils, working headphones, etc. They didn't need much and I spent most of the session just sitting in the live room, listening..soaking in the sound of an orchestra, live.. and for Nelly's album, I don't recall which song(s) it was for.</p>
<p style="text-align: center">It was an awesome day.</p>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Jenefer Si&#xe2;n Singing Selena - Si Una Vez</title>
					<link>http://mattsirrinemusic.com/home.cfm?feature=1021632&amp;postid=1938511</link>
					<description>My lady sings in Spanish too! haha Check it out! 

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					<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:59:42 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Pensado&apos;s Place / Mix Engineer Playlists</title>
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					<description>I started randomly choosing episodes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pensadosplace.tv/&quot;&gt;Pensado&apos;s Place to watch lately but decided to go back to episode 1 and watch every single episode. This is like Full Sail, the seque! Full Sail was great, don&apos;t get me wrong. I learned the very basics of recording, concepts, basic techniques and guidelines. It got me entry into a multi-million dollar faciility as an intern when I first moved to LA. You can learn all of it on your own but schools are a way to sort of speed up that process and potentially get you in the door&amp;nbsp;to some big studios.

Pensado&apos;s place takes things a step further. If you know the basics, Dave and his guests of the show, will take you another&amp;nbsp;step (or several steps) further. After watching 10 episodes of Pensado&apos;s Place, I feel like I&apos;ve been back at Full Sail for 6 months. I&apos;ve already applied countless new techniques to my mixes and the difference is just retarded. The new mixes I&apos;m working on make anything I&apos;ve mixed before sound completely noob&apos;ish. 

Not sure if he&apos;ll ever come across this but Dave, THANK YOU. The knowledge you and your guests put out there for us is so incredibly helpful.&amp;nbsp;I have seen the light! haha 

I&apos;ve always heard the names of some of the big time mix engineers out there but I&apos;ve never really sought out their mixes to listen to specifically. I just listen to music and can tell you whether or not I like a mix. After studying up on some my favorites discography I&apos;m noticing that most of my current favorite mixes have been mixed by those same people! 

I&apos;ve created two playlists for my current two favorite mix engineers. Tony Maserati and Phil Tan (also a Full Sail grad). Who my favorite mix engineer is something that changes almost daily along with my all time favorite artist, song, etc. These are my current favorites and I&apos;ve put together a playlist for each on Spotify. Not a complete discography but just some of the more recent mixes they&apos;ve done. Every one of these mixes is absolutely mind bottling.. go listen!
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://open.spotify.com/user/msirrine/playlist/0hn96MX9fQ5Sa9rPawOJys&quot;&gt;Tony Maserati Mixes




&lt;a href=&quot;http://open.spotify.com/user/msirrine/playlist/2xlDfT20E7b4yMfk9ADoTK&quot;&gt;Phil Tan Mixes

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					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I started randomly choosing episodes of <a href="http://www.pensadosplace.tv/">Pensado's Place</a> to watch lately but decided to go back to episode 1 and watch every single episode. This is like Full Sail, the seque! Full Sail was great, don't get me wrong. I learned the very basics of recording, concepts, basic techniques and guidelines. It got me entry into a multi-million dollar faciility as an intern when I first moved to LA. You can learn all of it on your own but schools are a way to sort of speed up that process and potentially get you in the door&nbsp;to some big studios.<br />
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Pensado's place takes things a step further. If you know the basics, Dave and his guests of the show, will take you another&nbsp;step (or several steps) further. After watching 10 episodes of Pensado's Place, I feel like I've been back at Full Sail for 6 months. I've already applied countless new techniques to my mixes and the difference is just retarded. The new mixes I'm working on make anything I've mixed before sound completely noob'ish. <br />
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Not sure if he'll ever come across this but Dave, THANK YOU. The knowledge you and your guests put out there for us is so incredibly helpful.&nbsp;I have seen the light! haha <br />
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I've always heard the names of some of the big time mix engineers out there but I've never really sought out their mixes to listen to specifically. I just listen to music and can tell you whether or not I like a mix. After studying up on some my favorites discography I'm noticing that most of my current favorite mixes have been mixed by those same people! <br />
<br />
I've created two playlists for my current two favorite mix engineers. Tony Maserati and Phil Tan (also a Full Sail grad). Who my favorite mix engineer is something that changes almost daily along with my all time favorite artist, song, etc. These are my current favorites and I've put together a playlist for each on Spotify. Not a complete discography but just some of the more recent mixes they've done. Every one of these mixes is absolutely mind bottling.. go listen!<br />
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<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://open.spotify.com/user/msirrine/playlist/0hn96MX9fQ5Sa9rPawOJys">Tony Maserati Mixes</a><br />
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<a href="http://open.spotify.com/user/msirrine/playlist/2xlDfT20E7b4yMfk9ADoTK">Phil Tan Mixes</a><br />
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					<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:23:02 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Back In The Big Rooms!</title>
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Spent the last couple days working out of &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.serenitywestrecording.com/studioa.html&quot;&gt;Studio A at Serenity West. So happy to be back working in&amp;nbsp;a big room. Doing some engineering for producers &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jacob+Kasher&quot;&gt;Jacob Kasher, &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.songspub.com/songwriters.php?id=165&quot;&gt;Brian Lee and others. Crazy talented people making crazy awesome music. Happy to be a part of it.</description>
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<div style="text-align: left">Spent the last couple days working out of <a target="_new" href="http://www.serenitywestrecording.com/studioa.html">Studio A at Serenity West</a>. <b>So </b>happy to be back working in&nbsp;a big room. Doing some engineering for producers <a target="_new" href="http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jacob+Kasher">Jacob Kasher</a>, <a target="_new" href="http://www.songspub.com/songwriters.php?id=165">Brian Lee</a> and others. Crazy talented people making crazy awesome music. Happy to be a part of it.</div>]]></content:encoded>
					<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Jenefer Si&#xe2;n Live at Eleven in West Hollywood - 7/30 - [VIDEO]</title>
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Jenefer performed live for the very fist time at Eleven in West Hollywood on Saturday, July 30th. She performed two brand new and unreleased songs; &amp;quot;Boys Up On Us&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Up in Smoke,&amp;quot; the latter produced by G2 and written completely by Jenefer. I mixed both of these tracks and also created the little intro track. 

She absolutely KILLED.

&amp;quot;And if you think I&apos;m not conveying exactly what it was like to be there, you&apos;re right. That&apos;s the essence of a great show, you can&apos;t really describe it, you had to be there.&amp;quot; - BL</description>
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Jenefer performed live for the very fist time at Eleven in West Hollywood on Saturday, July 30th. She performed two brand new and unreleased songs; &quot;Boys Up On Us&quot; and &quot;Up in Smoke,&quot; the latter produced by G2 and written completely by Jenefer. I mixed both of these tracks and also created the little intro track. <br />
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She absolutely KILLED.<br />
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&quot;And if you think I'm not conveying exactly what it was like to be there, you're right. That's the essence of a great show, you can't really describe it, you had to be there.&quot; - BL]]></content:encoded>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:57:21 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Come See Jenefer Si&#xe2;n Live at Eleven in West Hollywood!</title>
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Send an email to &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:GuestList@JeneferSian.com&quot;&gt;GuestList@JeneferSian.com with the first and last names of yourself and anyone you&apos;re bringing to get in FREE!

&lt;a href=&quot;http://JeneferSian.com&quot;&gt;http://JeneferSian.com
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<div style="text-align: left"><span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1311975783916_778">Send an email to <a href="mailto:GuestList@JeneferSian.com">GuestList@JeneferSian.com</a> with the first and last names of yourself and anyone you're bringing to get in FREE!<br />
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<a href="http://JeneferSian.com">http://JeneferSian.com</a></span></div>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:44:09 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>&quot;Smart Arse&quot;</title>
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					<description>Look what I did!




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					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Look what I did!<br />
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					<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>New Jenefer Sian Singles and Remixes</title>
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					<description>I&apos;ve been really bad about updating my site lately. Lots of catching up to do. 

Jenefer has promised to release a new single every 3 weeks, starting with the release of &amp;quot;Call You Out&amp;quot; on April 19th. Since then she has also released &amp;quot;Dead End&amp;quot; on May 10th, &amp;quot;Puppet Master&amp;quot; on May 31st and on June 14th she released a remix of her single &amp;quot;Operate&amp;quot; by icehouseindustries.

&amp;quot;Call You Out&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Dead End&amp;quot; were both produced and mixed by me. &amp;quot;Puppet Master&amp;quot; was co-produced by Wesley Avery and myself. The &amp;quot;Operate&amp;quot; remix was done by icehouseindustries and originally produced by Wesley Avery.

    &lt;a href=&quot;http://soundcloud.com/jenefersian/sets/jenefer-si-n&quot;&gt;Jenefer Si&amp;acirc;n by &lt;a href=&quot;http://soundcloud.com/jenefersian&quot;&gt;JeneferSian</description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been really bad about updating my site lately. Lots of catching up to do. <br />
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Jenefer has promised to release a new single every 3 weeks, starting with the release of &quot;Call You Out&quot; on April 19th. Since then she has also released &quot;Dead End&quot; on May 10th, &quot;Puppet Master&quot; on May 31st and on June 14th she released a remix of her single &quot;Operate&quot; by icehouseindustries.<br />
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&quot;Call You Out&quot; and &quot;Dead End&quot; were both produced and mixed by me. &quot;Puppet Master&quot; was co-produced by Wesley Avery and myself. The &quot;Operate&quot; remix was done by icehouseindustries and originally produced by Wesley Avery.<br />
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<object height="225" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F870619&amp;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_playcount=true&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;color=f300d7"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="225" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F870619&amp;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_playcount=true&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;color=f300d7" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object><span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/jenefersian/sets/jenefer-si-n">Jenefer Si&acirc;n</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/jenefersian">JeneferSian</a></span>]]></content:encoded>
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:24:18 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Lefsetz/LadyGaga/TroyCarter</title>
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					<description>I&apos;ve been reading the Lefsetz letter for over a year now. Bob has a lot of really great insight on the music industry. Some things I agree with some I don&apos;t. It&apos;s usually an interesting read and a good debate. For the first time I decided to respond. First read his letter and the response from Lady Gaga&apos;s manger, Troy Carter to understand where all this came from.&amp;nbsp;

Lefsetz on Lady Gaga/Amazon
&lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2011/05/25/lady-gagaamazon/&quot;&gt;http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2011/05/25/lady-gagaamazon/

Troy Carter&apos;s Response
&lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2011/05/25/lady-gagas-manager-responds/&quot;&gt;http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2011/05/25/lady-gagas-manager-responds/


This morning Bob sent out many of his reader responses to Mr. Carter&apos;s response, as he does. Here is a small sampling of the responses.&amp;nbsp;


This guy puts Timberlake - and Bieber! - in the same sentence as The Beatles?  Despite his otherwise reasoned response, he can&apos;t be sane.

Rob Meurer

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&amp;quot;Lighten up a bit, it&apos;s just music.&amp;quot;

If this was the case, Troy Carter wouldn&apos;t feel the need to respond.  And a world without Timberlake and Bieber?  Get me a ticket on the shuttle to that planet.  It&apos;s a far cooler world than ours.

Morgan

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Putting The Beatles and Bieber in the same sentence is as telling a demonstration as is possible for how little this guy cares about music

Greg Reason

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I gotta say, he had a pretty good response. 

Chris Scott
Silverback Artist Management

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He was making sense until he said it was &amp;quot;JUST&amp;quot; music.  When players in the game are calling music a &amp;quot;just,&amp;quot; you know we have a problem.  But then again, we already knew that.

Sam Leon

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Fucking respect to Troy Carter! 

Your commentating is world class Bob, but Troy&apos;s call call on the sideline aspect is 100% correct Bob. 

Any idiot can be a critic.  

Elise Lindsay

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&amp;quot;Lighten up a bit, it&apos;s just music.&amp;quot;
Wow; interesting quote from a manager, really!

Ric Taylor

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Maybe they should&apos;ve listened to the cynics when it came to Timberlake and Beiber.

Peter Kearns



My response to Bob, and many of his readers is below:

I read through most of these responses and the phrase that comes to mind is &amp;quot;GET OFF MY LAWN!&amp;quot;

Certain songs resonate with you, make you feel something, whether it&apos;s promoting a political ideology or just makes you want to dance. Does it really matter? Who are YOU to say which songs and which artists are shit and SHOULD NOT resonate with ME (or any other music fan)? THAT is the beauty of music. It means whatever the fuck YOU want it to mean. Who are any of you to say that Lady Gaga is shit, or Bieber, or Timberlake, etc.

Bob once said regarding Christina Aguilera&apos;s Super Bowl flub:

&amp;quot;Would YOU lose your place?

OF COURSE NOT!

But you haven&apos;t got the chance.&amp;quot;

I think that applies to what Mr. Carter is doing as well. Of course your music means SO much more than Lady Gaga&apos;s, or, you would make better decisions in marketing her album or always say/do the right things to push the music industry in a positive direction. But what are you doing? Where&apos;s your album at? What makes it so much better? To me THAT is what is wrong with music industry today. More power to any of you that responded who are also in the trenches, making music, loving every second of it, and trying to get your voice heard too. That&apos;s what it&apos;s all about. Making music because you love making it, love listening to it, love how a great song makes you feel and how you can literally have it on repeat all day long and not get sick of it. But please think about the negativity you&apos;re putting out there. I see the pooh-poohing of &amp;quot;pop&amp;quot; music today as just being a judgmental, jealous, and angry person. That is no way to live. It IS about the music and who gives a shit if it&apos;s in a Google Chrome commercial? If the song is that great in your eyes it won&apos;t matter. However, at the same time, Troy&apos;s response and your thoughts regarding that may very well be what inspires you or someone reading your response to write a great song that resonates with someone.

I happen to love Born This Way, Femme Fatale, Teenage Dream, and many other recent pop albums. I also happen to love 21 and Sigh No More. Maybe I&apos;m just a lunatic when it comes to music. But who cares? I like what I like and you like what you like and that&apos;s all fine. I&apos;m a guitar player, played in some rock bands, metal bands and now I&apos;m writing pop songs (still write some metal stuff on the side). I&apos;ve only seen a microscopic amount of success but I make music because I love it. My &amp;quot;success&amp;quot; is in writing a song that I can be proud of, a song that I had a blast making either by myself or with others. The beauty in music is that you can do whatever you want with it. The same song can mean one thing to you and something completely different to someone else. Just because you don&apos;t feel the same thing as me from a song or artist does not make it wrong. In believing that, in fact, it is wrong, is what&apos;s wrong with music industry. I suspect that this kind of back and forth is no different from previous generations.

&amp;quot;You&apos;re too old, you just don&apos;t &apos;get it.&apos;&amp;quot;

Don&apos;t be a drag, just be a queen. hahahaha

Thanks,

Matt Sirrine

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					<content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been reading the Lefsetz letter for over a year now. Bob has a lot of really great insight on the music industry. Some things I agree with some I don't. It's usually an interesting read and a good debate. For the first time I decided to respond. First read his letter and the response from Lady Gaga's manger, Troy Carter to understand where all this came from.&nbsp;<br />
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<b>Lefsetz on Lady Gaga/Amazon<br />
</b><a target="_new" href="http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2011/05/25/lady-gagaamazon/"><b>http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2011/05/25/lady-gagaamazon/<br />
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Troy Carter's Response<br />
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This morning Bob sent out many of his reader responses to Mr. Carter's response, as he does. Here is a small sampling of the responses.&nbsp;<br />
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<i>This guy puts Timberlake - and Bieber! - in the same sentence as The Beatles?  Despite his otherwise reasoned response, he can't be sane.<br />
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Rob Meurer<br />
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&quot;Lighten up a bit, it's just music.&quot;<br />
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If this was the case, Troy Carter wouldn't feel the need to respond.  And a world without Timberlake and Bieber?  Get me a ticket on the shuttle to that planet.  It's a far cooler world than ours.<br />
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Morgan<br />
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Putting The Beatles and Bieber in the same sentence is as telling a demonstration as is possible for how little this guy cares about music<br />
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Greg Reason<br />
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I gotta say, he had a pretty good response. <br />
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Chris Scott<br />
Silverback Artist Management<br />
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He was making sense until he said it was &quot;JUST&quot; music.  When players in the game are calling music a &quot;just,&quot; you know we have a problem.  But then again, we already knew that.<br />
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Sam Leon<br />
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Fucking respect to Troy Carter! <br />
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Your commentating is world class Bob, but Troy's call call on the sideline aspect is 100% correct Bob. <br />
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Any idiot can be a critic.  <br />
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Elise Lindsay<br />
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&quot;Lighten up a bit, it's just music.&quot;<br />
Wow; interesting quote from a manager, really!<br />
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Ric Taylor<br />
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Maybe they should've listened to the cynics when it came to Timberlake and Beiber.<br />
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Peter Kearns<br />
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<b>My response to Bob, and many of his readers is below:</b><br />
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I read through most of these responses and the phrase that comes to mind is &quot;GET OFF MY LAWN!&quot;<br />
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Certain songs resonate with you, make you feel something, whether it's promoting a political ideology or just makes you want to dance. Does it really matter? Who are YOU to say which songs and which artists are shit and SHOULD NOT resonate with ME (or any other music fan)? THAT is the beauty of music. It means whatever the fuck YOU want it to mean. Who are any of you to say that Lady Gaga is shit, or Bieber, or Timberlake, etc.<br />
<br />
Bob once said regarding Christina Aguilera's Super Bowl flub:<br />
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&quot;Would YOU lose your place?<br />
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OF COURSE NOT!<br />
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But you haven't got the chance.&quot;<br />
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I think that applies to what Mr. Carter is doing as well. Of course your music means SO much more than Lady Gaga's, or, you would make better decisions in marketing her album or always say/do the right things to push the music industry in a positive direction. But what are you doing? Where's your album at? What makes it so much better? To me THAT is what is wrong with music industry today. More power to any of you that responded who are also in the trenches, making music, loving every second of it, and trying to get your voice heard too. That's what it's all about. Making music because you love making it, love listening to it, love how a great song makes you feel and how you can literally have it on repeat all day long and not get sick of it. But please think about the negativity you're putting out there. I see the pooh-poohing of &quot;pop&quot; music today as just being a judgmental, jealous, and angry person. That is no way to live. It IS about the music and who gives a shit if it's in a Google Chrome commercial? If the song is that great in your eyes it won't matter. However, at the same time, Troy's response and your thoughts regarding that may very well be what inspires you or someone reading your response to write a great song that resonates with someone.<br />
<br />
I happen to love Born This Way, Femme Fatale, Teenage Dream, and many other recent pop albums. I also happen to love 21 and Sigh No More. Maybe I'm just a lunatic when it comes to music. But who cares? I like what I like and you like what you like and that's all fine. I'm a guitar player, played in some rock bands, metal bands and now I'm writing pop songs (still write some metal stuff on the side). I've only seen a microscopic amount of success but I make music because I love it. My &quot;success&quot; is in writing a song that I can be proud of, a song that I had a blast making either by myself or with others. The beauty in music is that you can do whatever you want with it. The same song can mean one thing to you and something completely different to someone else. Just because you don't feel the same thing as me from a song or artist does not make it wrong. In believing that, in fact, it is wrong, is what's wrong with music industry. I suspect that this kind of back and forth is no different from previous generations.<br />
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&quot;You're too old, you just don't 'get it.'&quot;<br />
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Don't be a drag, just be a queen. hahahaha<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Matt Sirrine<br />
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Jenefer Si&amp;acirc;n&apos;s new single &amp;quot;Call You Out&amp;quot; is out now and available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://itunes.com/JeneferSian&quot;&gt;iTunes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Call-You-Out/dp/B004X96XMS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=dmusic&amp;amp;qid=1303865806&amp;amp;sr=8-1&quot;&gt;Amazon, and other digital retailers. The track can also be downloaded for FREE from her official site - &lt;a href=&quot;http://JeneferSian.com&quot;&gt;http://JeneferSian.com. Act fast, there are a limited number of free downloads! This track was written, produced, recorded and mixed in my living room.
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Jenefer Si&acirc;n's new single &quot;Call You Out&quot; is out now and available from <a href="http://itunes.com/JeneferSian">iTunes</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Call-You-Out/dp/B004X96XMS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dmusic&amp;qid=1303865806&amp;sr=8-1">Amazon</a>, and other digital retailers. The track can also be downloaded for FREE from her official site - <a href="http://JeneferSian.com">http://JeneferSian.com</a>. Act fast, there are a limited number of free downloads! This track was written, produced, recorded and mixed in my living room.</div>
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					<description>Full Sail graduates are just kick ass. There are 8 Full Sail alumni nominated at this year&apos;s Grammy awards. Including my friend, Alex Merzin, who was the engineer on Eminem&apos;s Recovery album that is up for Album of the Year. Pretty awesome. Good job, dude! Alex is personally nominated for a Grammy. 

To view the entire press release for the Grammy nominated Full Sail Grads go here&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.fullsail.edu/about/press-room/full-release/2011-01-27-grammy-noms-2011&quot;&gt;http://www.fullsail.edu/about/press-room/full-release/2011-01-27-grammy-noms-2011.
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To view the entire press release for the Grammy nominated Full Sail Grads go here&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.fullsail.edu/about/press-room/full-release/2011-01-27-grammy-noms-2011">http://www.fullsail.edu/about/press-room/full-release/2011-01-27-grammy-noms-2011</a>.</p>
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					<description>&amp;nbsp;I was just tweeting at fellow producer, Marlin Newsome (&lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/AllThatBass&quot;&gt;@AllThatBass), talking about stinking from a recording session. Mainly stinking of weed. It reminded me of the many sessions I&apos;ve had with reggae producer/engineer Hopeton Brown aka &amp;quot;The Scientist.&amp;quot; Those were some pretty cool and interesting sessions. Very different recording and mixing techniques but the finished product was real deal reggae. You can read more about him on &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist_%28musician%29&quot;&gt;wikipedia&amp;nbsp;but you might be more interested in this video. This dude would dime out the SSL. On the MAINS! I wore ear plugs the entire session. He has to be nearly deaf by now.&amp;nbsp;



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					<content:encoded><![CDATA[&nbsp;I was just tweeting at fellow producer, Marlin Newsome (<a target="_new" href="http://twitter.com/#!/AllThatBass">@AllThatBass)</a>, talking about stinking from a recording session. Mainly stinking of weed. It reminded me of the many sessions I've had with reggae producer/engineer Hopeton Brown aka &quot;The Scientist.&quot; Those were some pretty cool and interesting sessions. Very different recording and mixing techniques but the finished product was real deal reggae. You can read more about him on <a target="_new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist_%28musician%29">wikipedia</a>&nbsp;but you might be more interested in this video. This dude would dime out the SSL. On the MAINS! I wore ear plugs the entire session. He has to be nearly deaf by now.&nbsp;<br />
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					<title>Jenefer Si&#xe2;n Featured on Windows Media Guide - Free Music Downloads!</title>
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Jenefer Si&amp;acirc;n is currently featured on&amp;nbsp;the &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.windowsmedia.com/MediaGuide/US/Music/FreeMusicDownloads&quot;&gt;Windows Media Guide - Free Music Downloads page! You can download &amp;quot;Take a Number,&amp;quot; a track I produced, for free or visit her profile on &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/control_room/848183#!/jenefersi%C3%A2n&quot;&gt;ReverbNation for more information. Pretty awesome!</description>
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<div style="text-align: left">Jenefer Si&acirc;n is currently featured on&nbsp;the <a target="_new" href="http://www.windowsmedia.com/MediaGuide/US/Music/FreeMusicDownloads">Windows Media Guide - Free Music Downloads page</a>! You can download &quot;Take a Number,&quot; a track I produced, for free or visit her profile on <a target="_new" href="http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/control_room/848183#!/jenefersi%C3%A2n">ReverbNation</a> for more information. Pretty awesome!</div>]]></content:encoded>
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					<title>Jenefer Si&#xe2;n&apos;s Official Call You Out Music Video</title>
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					<description>Here it is! Check out the song and video, both produced by myself. Video directed by Alan Wain.&amp;nbsp;</description>
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Jenefer Si&amp;acirc;n has released the trailer for &amp;quot;Call You Out&amp;quot; this past Monday. Video and song produced by me! Enjoy! It can also be viewed on Jenefer&apos;s official website - &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.JeneferSian.com &quot;&gt;www.JeneferSian.com</description>
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Jenefer Si&acirc;n has released the trailer for &quot;Call You Out&quot; this past Monday. Video and song produced by me! Enjoy! It can also be viewed on Jenefer's official website - <a target="_new" href="http://www.JeneferSian.com ">www.JeneferSian.com</a>]]></content:encoded>
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Here is a little video entering Warwick Castle. I added the music I had playing in my head that day to the video.
Rhapsody - The March of the Swordmaster
Duh.

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<div style="text-align: left;">Here is a little video entering Warwick Castle. I added the music I had playing in my head that day to the video.<br />
Rhapsody - The March of the Swordmaster<br />
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A lot of guys (and girls) say they&apos;re not into girls with lots of tattoos. OK. Neither am I. Let me dig a little deeper for you. More than a majority of the girls with lots of tattoos (&apos;lots&apos; as in sleeves, half sleeves, back pieces, etc.) are busted to begin with. Check out this video of Beyonce covered in tattoos. Beyonce is like my ultimate ULTIMATE celebrity crush (she recently surpassed Kim Kardashian haha). Beyonce covered in tattoos...still wicked hot. So the next time you hear someone say they&apos;re not into girls with tattoos what they&apos;re really saying is they are not into busted ass ugly chicks with or without tattoos.
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A lot of guys (and girls) say they're not into girls with lots of tattoos. OK. Neither am I. Let me dig a little deeper for you. More than a majority of the girls with lots of tattoos ('lots' as in sleeves, half sleeves, back pieces, etc.) are busted to begin with. Check out this video of Beyonce covered in tattoos. Beyonce is like my ultimate ULTIMATE celebrity crush (she recently surpassed Kim Kardashian haha). Beyonce covered in tattoos...still wicked hot. So the next time you hear someone say they're not into girls with tattoos what they're really saying is they are not into busted ass ugly chicks with or without tattoos.</div>
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Jenefer and I went over to England this past summer to visit her family. We had a blast and went to Warwick Castle. I&apos;ve finally gotten around to gathering up all the pictures and video from my iPhone and everyone&apos;s elses digital devices. Here is a pretty awesome video of a video they had playing in the castle. Doesn&apos;t get much more epic than this:


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Jenefer and I went over to England this past summer to visit her family. We had a blast and went to Warwick Castle. I've finally gotten around to gathering up all the pictures and video from my iPhone and everyone's elses digital devices. Here is a pretty awesome video of a video they had playing in the castle. Doesn't get much more epic than this:<br />
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					<description>Pretty awesome day today. 

Had a chance run in with Larry Rudolph in West Hollywood today. He was kind enough to give me an email address. So I sent him an email with everything he would ever want to know about Jenefer Si&amp;acirc;n and wouldn&apos;t you know a few hours later he writes back! I&apos;m going to keep it my little secret as to what he said. We&apos;ll see where things go with this one. :)
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Had a chance run in with Larry Rudolph in West Hollywood today. He was kind enough to give me an email address. So I sent him an email with everything he would ever want to know about Jenefer Si&acirc;n and wouldn't you know a few hours later he writes back! I'm going to keep it my little secret as to what he said. We'll see where things go with this one. :)<br />
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