..and it's goodbye from me (boromir).

I realise you're all still in mourning for the passing on of sotise, but I feel it's an appropriate time to announce my decision to cease activities on this blog. Sotise's departure has not caused my decision, but it perhaps has accelerated it a little, I have been pondering it for some time.

I don't have the same issues as sotise. Whilst I don't like the back-stabbing and innuendos that sotise mentioned, I am not so sensitive about them. It's not nearly as bad as a lifetime of infighting and jealousies at work, as I'm sure many of you will testify. Having said that JR's attack on centrifuge was most distasteful.

My issue is the common one among bloggers - a feeling of being taken for granted. The level of feedback on posts is really quite pathetic. I reckon about 95% of downloaders here are simply taking without so much as a word of thanks. The majority of people who do leave an acknowledgement are themselves contributors to this or other sites. After getting on for 2 years of this I've had enough. Music and blogging for me is not a passion, merely a pastime.

Thanks to those precious few who have commented. To the rest... well, nevermind. I wish the blog much success in the future.

Farewell message from Sotise

Hello ,just a brief message.
in the last few days i've been away enjoying a yearly festival of improvised music in a small village near to where i live.
Its truly a drag to have to come back to people telling each other to fuck and piss off, on the blog that i originally started.
I have decided that i no longer wish to share music with people who have so little respect for each other,i have no desire on a forum such as this to put up with jarring insults and the narcissistic self obsessed behavior that prevails endlessly out THERE in the brutal light of day.

I have no desire to create rules that my co contributors must obey, no inclination to sensor, or castigate those who have affronted me with their comments...no wish whatsoever to play god and master.
Nor is my sense of self in anyway bound to the ephemera of anonymous file sharing... it IS simply easier to remove myself.

I have staked no ego on this whimsy , which was the fruit of longing for a lost distant past(the tape culture hey day) and a wish to recapture partaking of the limitless marvels afforded by shared musical journeys with friends.

i know it all sounds so Ernest and doubtlessly trite...some of you I'm certain have no idea what I'm talking about.
Its been fun at times.... thanks to all who have contributed here, either with posts or comments!
As of now i am hereby removing myself as a contributor to this blog.. and leaving you who visit and participate in the capable hands of those still contributing here.

regards to you all..
thank you
S