I gotta tell you. I made a rather interesting discovery this evening over at a certain theater chat board populated mostly by teens.
There has been a poster there who posts whenever anything about the LuPone Gypsy CD is posted. Very defensive most of the time. In one of those threads I suggested that people not expect it out quickly given the producer's history - his Annie recording took a year to come out, he was finally removed from the Paper Mill Follies mix because, after six months he STILL wasn't finished. So, this poster complained to the mods of the board and they removed my post and several others that basically agreed with mine. Then this poster began saying really nasty things about me at every turn. I don't know why I'm so damnably slow sometimes, but tonight there was yet another thread about the Gypsy CD and sure as shootin' this guy responded and obviously from a position of knowledge. So, I went into his profile, where one can see all his posts. He registered on the board in February of this year. ALL his posts are about Time Life cast albums - he posts raves about any album produced by the producer of the Time Life albums. The only other couple of posts that aren't about him are ones where he knocks other cast album CDs and their producers. I reread his posts about me and yes, it's very clear that the poster is no one other than the record producer of the Time Life albums.
I outed him and the post was removed. I then wrote the mods and told them they had twenty-four hours to remove his scurrolous posts about me - because they can't have it both ways. If they're not gone, I will be there at every opportunity to out this "person" over and over again. They can keep removing them, and that's how they'll be spending all their time. You'd think this producer would be over his bitterness about me (after my one and only experience in working with him in the studio, I told him I would NEVER work with him again). His history speaks for itself - sometimes taking up to a year or even more to mix an album. One particular CD, a revival of a well-loved and huge cult musical by the theater's finest composer/lyricist (who recently had a limited edition CD on a lovely label), is legendary - not for its quality, but for the fact that he took six months to mix it, still wasn't finished, and was finally taken out of the mixing room, the CD being finished by someone else close to the composer/lyricist.
Watch your ASS, sir, because we've got your number now.
