Frankly - I'm insulted...

[matto]

Quote:Yeah Matt - you are in a position where this has been successful enough for you that you automatically renew and would never receive one of these. Von, I get the same renewal notices everybody else gets...pep talks, bets with ML's wife etc etc, seen them all, trust me .Quote:If you were in a position where you have to figure should I rejoin TAXI or pay rent and keep a roof over my family's head - maybe you would see it differently. Von, but you know I've been in that position many times...maybe I should be insulted now because you seem to suggest that my modest success was somehow handed to me, that I didn't have to suffer and fight for it?...but I'm not going to, because I know that's not how you meant it...(I hope...) By the same token you should know that the Taxi renewal email is a form letter, is advertising, and not meant to question the commitment and initiative of you, one Von Babasin. Or shouldn't you?

[matto]

Quote:Big companies spend a lot of money on customer service.I wonder how much Taxi spends........0$ ...Form letters are used by just about any company, regardless of size and quality of customer service...

[onoffon]

Quote:you seem to suggest that my modest success was somehow handed to me, that I didn't have to suffer and fight for it?What I suggest in my reference to your success through TAXI is with complete honor and respect, with no inference to anything other than hard work and determination on your part.Anyone who manages any amount of success in music on their own gets my humble reverence...

[onoffon]

Thanks Johnny Dean - I know it was a form letter - it's nonetheless frustrating to read.I've been fighting to get upstream to reach the spawning grounds for so long, I can't remember what it's like to simply swim.Still I continue to throw myself against the rocks time and time again....

[zowie]

The only thing I found "insulting" was the "how to write a song"flyer I found in my Taxi starter kit.Melody,verse,bridge,chorus?What are these things I wonder?I forgive them now,I think.

[zink]

Quote: Melody,verse,bridge,chorus?What are these things I wonder?I forgive them now,I think.I used to have a chorus pedal. Now if I could only find my verse pedal... I think it's next to the clutch

[jay10music]

Alright, what in the hell i goin on in here? Can I help sort something out?

[53mph]

Von...ONOFF.Subscribing to a service like Taxi is no small financial feat for any of us. I've had my ups and downs too. At my height I was offered several management deals and was signed to two lables. Now I'm holding down a steady job whilst trying to still make it in music. Shit happens.I'm not rich and I'm currently selling some of my prized music gear to get the subscription money for Taxi and Broadjam together. I know I'm worth more than the position I'm in but I'm not going to vent my spleen at the world because the world hasn't given me what I think it should.Remember, it's a standard letter catering to the middle ground of subscribers....not neccessarily you. I think you just has a bad day and happened to read the advertising in the wrong moment. Zowie...ditto. Some people may find that starter kit useful.

[onoffon]

53 - I think we all gotta 'vent our spleens to the world' just to keep from going insane.

[bitwhys]

Vonquit being such a crumudgenand take my word for ityou don't have to stiff Laskow to prove you lack initiative