You can read a full review of last Friday's Opeth/Madder Mortem gig and look through a complete photo gallery from the gig at www.viewfromthepit.com
Anarchy In Scotland said:I totally agree with the review(I was there)
Not a major Opeth fan but "sound repetitive and somewhat boring" I agree with.
I'm sure the big Opeth fans loved it though.
Kaberonie said:You ARE the reviewer
As to judging music on first listen, it's something you have to learn to do if you're going to be a critic. There's far to much material to get through to develop an indeapth knowledge of every band and artist out there. Do you really think that the reviewers for Rock Sound or Rolling Stone have extensive experience with every band they review?
You went to a gig completely ignorant of the majority of the setlist and failed to mention that in a review in which you called them boring and repetitive. If you can't understand why fans of the band find that unacceptable then you are in no position to be writing for any decent media outlet. Oh wait, you aren't.Sorry if you don't agree with me. I've written an honest review with honest opinions (something you don't see often in the press today) and even given each of you the opertunity to write reviews of your own rather than complaining that i don't agree with you. Not much more i can offer you really.
Masters Apprentice said:So wait, let me get this straight..you went to see a band and got bored of them so much you walked out half way through. Then went to their site, looked at their messageboard and then REGISTERED just to say you agree that they are boring?
Well, do you not think that if i just wanted the hits it would have been far easier to write a hugely positive review giving them 9 or 10 out of 10 just to keep small minded people like you coming back?Do you go to the gig just to hand out leaflets and get hits for your website?
I don't really care about your situation, you were the one who said reviewers for magazines have too much material to go through every month to be able to give it a fair listen. Which is completely false. There are usually about 10 people doing 40 reviews a month between then, that's like a week dedicated to one album.laterus69 said:Oh now i'm forced to bow down to your far superior knowledge of how the music press works. Of coarse i never get sent albums to review and they don't usually arrive about a week or two before the release, the same time that everyone else gets them.
In fact, truth told, i spend more time listening to them than most of the reviewers for the music magazins, and i know this how?
Oh yes, i talk to them.
You just don't get it at all, do you? My problem with the review is not the negative comments but the fact you have given an unfair representation of the gig that night. I'd never go to a Britney Spears gig and review that for a magazine, because my opinion would be totally biased seeing as how I think the music sucks. You've went to see a band you have little experience of and probably knew none of the songs they played and expect people who know what they're talking to find it completely acceptable when you call them "boring" and "repetitive". It's just a total lack of proffesionalism by the website for allowing such substandard reviews to appear on it.laterus69 said:Personal insults. Very mature. You know that for every ten or twenty people like you who will hate the site because "they slaged off my favorite band", they'll be one who likes the site and keeps coming back and to be honest, i'm more interested in that one than you.
I've worked for various media outlets and nearly got a job with Terrorizer magazine 2 months ago. I currently write for my university and local papers, and will soon be opening my own review website. I actually do get sent promotional copies of albums and free tickets to gigs because record labels want me to review their albums and promote their tours, I think I know how it works, son.laterus69 said:And just to refer back a bit and answer a question in full:-Well, do you not think that if i just wanted the hits it would have been far easier to write a hugely positive review giving them 9 or 10 out of 10 just to keep small minded people like you coming back?
Oh yes, just to let you in on a little secret of the music press. Reviewer, whoever they're working for, normally go along and take a copy of the set list, writing down the song titles because their not hugely familiar with the bands. That obviously varies depending on what bands the reviewers like, but in general that's how it happens.