The Mystery of KJA and the “Rawswill Sicks”
Posted By SandChigger on June 3, 2009
I really don’t get it this time. I’m not seeing this CD tie-in at all. I popped over by KJA’s MySpace page and listened once more to the four songs from the Terrah Incontinenta: The Wedgie of the Oiled companion “seedy” playable using his nifty wow widget and I still don’t get it. Sounds like the same old shit some people were doing 30 or 40 years ago.
Doing better and in a more interesting way, that is. When it was actually new. This is just more retro crap. From the King of Crap, your Hack Extraordinaire, Kevin J. Anderson.
I’m wondering if the little fanboys and girls are really eating this up like KJA wants them to. Like he wants everyone to think. If they are, could it be because they’re all teens or early twenty-somethings that don’t remember this stuff from its first time around?
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What does it sound like, pls tell me as I can’t face it myself. In my minds ear it’s a cross between “journey to the Centre of the Earth” by Wakeman and Hawkwinds “Quark, Strangeness and Charm”. Both LPs I like but the Bastard Child of them, No Thanks.
So your lack of taste extends into music as well…
What do YOU listen to??
KC and the Sunshine Band?
Abba?
Nooooo
I think Rage Against the Machine is probably more your style…
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Are we moderating comments now?
So much for Freedome of Speech!
KJA is the king of original ideas.
oops i forgot the word highjacking in that sentence…
inhuien! Rick Wakeman, whoa! I’d forgotten all about him. Yeah, that’s about the right time-period feel. (Sorry, I’m not familiar with Hawkwinds. ???)
Yep, BB, KJA is nothing if not original.
So … he’s nothing.
Now for the unpleasantries…
Yes, “raidkillsbugsdead”, whoever you are this time, I have put the name you have chosen to use into the moderation queue. Mainly because you’re the third person to show up here lacking the balls needed to declare your usual Internet identity and stand behind your comments. (At least, you’re posting from yet another IP address, in Amsterdam this time. You could be Brian Conway again, or the nutless wonder in Provo (if that wasn’t him, too), posting through some proxy site.) I obviously don’t mind people using fake names here, since I go by SandChigger myself, but the same fake name and the same fake email address (which I of course made public here myself) used from multiple IP addresses, possibly by more than one person? Someone as fond of conspiracy theories as myself might suspect concerted action! Oh NO! Just go back to KJASF.com and get your giggles there.
But if you really want to complain about freedom of speech and moderation of comments, go do it on KJA’s blog.
Oh, sorry, you CAN’T, can you?
As for your comment, WHICH IS THE LAST THAT WILL BE PASSED UNDER THE NAME YOU USED, my younger sister was fond of KC and his group, but I never saw that one, either. And who doesn’t lovehate ABBA? Rage Against the Machine? I know the name, but just more noise AFAIC.
Now run along and fuck off.
Well that answers my question on the other blog. Bye Bye bugspray.
Hawkwind are most awesome, THE seminal sci fi/space/triprock outfit ever. Lemmy played bass for them, M Moorcock penned the odd verse, blah, blah, blah.
Cool. I’ll have to have a look around for more on them. Know if there’s anything on iTunes?
I got to thinking last night that I probably have an LP copy of “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” somewhere. One of my roommates my sophomore year introduced me to a lot of music I hadn’t been exposed to in the small backwater burg where I grew up. Wakeman, ELP, Jean Michel Jarre. Ah, the good ole days.
Terribly Incoherent ain’t exactly flying off the shelves. As of five minutes ago:
“Amazon.com Sales Rank: #48,887 in Books”
Gee, I guess it’s harder to be a “best-selling” author without the gigantic 100-point DUNE on the cover, huh, Keith?
http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/album_9830.html
“Babyblue pages” is the No. 1 prog review page in Germany… and the url shows the reviews for Roswell Six… i tried to translate it, but I think the funny parts don’t translate too well.
But hey … “Now I need a little Manowar” says it all, doesn’t it
Nick Brückner:
You know Kevin J. Anderson, the “Co-Executive Producer” of this album? He’s one of those Heyne SciFi Authors[1]: twodimensional characters are striving through flat stories free from any subtlety. Dune fans built him a stake years ago, but he continues writing. About 100 books until now. Well, he doesn’t forget mentioning them in the booklet of the CD. 100 books? The sure have to be good …
Why he appears here? Because he delievers the storyline for this concept album. Well, “story” doesn’t fit, because she’s nearly non-existent. The protagonists don’t appear together and the plot doesn’t end.
Erik Nolander is know for … ahem … “playing prog without prog” for years, and he translates the story congenial to music. I never ever heard a plot so well transfered into the suiting music. Unbelievable how he picks up every characteristics from the original and brings it into sound. The whole shallowness, telling weaknesses, flat characters, the not bad but on the other hand completely missing style … everything has found it’s counterpart in this CD. The whole thing has been played by a band consisting of the least common denominator
of Rocket Scientists, Lana Lanes, Sagas, Asisas and Shadow Gallerys — and who the hell is Redemption and Under the Sun??
You know marshmallows? The sweet, sticky stuff which is available in pink and white? “Terra Incognita” is the pink version.
1/15
“I need a little Manowar now”
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[1] Heyne is a German publisher, comparable to Tor SciFi
Willkommen zurück!
The first review, by Sal Pichireddu, is pretty rude, too!
“Selbst bei dem zweifelhaften Leumund der Hauptverbre… Hauptmusiker bin ich entsetzt über so viel schlechten Geschmack.” (Even with the dubious reputation of the major criminal … the main musician, I am appalled by so much bad taste.)
(Google Translate ist mein Freund!
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well, I found this doing some google searches on our new album. This is really stunning, I mean seriously stunning that someone can have so much free time coupled with hate and animosity for no apparent reason to try and bring down and slag on other people for no real reason. This is a wonderful album that we spent a lot of time and thought on, 2 years actually. So a few jokers in Germany don’t like it, well guess what, they don’t like anything we do, so I don’t really care, why don’t you try showing all the good reviews, oh wait, that wouldn’t fit in with your psychotic agenda. I’m sure you won’t post this, because I seriously doubt you have the balls to do it, and I’m dead sure you’d NEVER have the balls to even talk to me on the phone or meet me in person, but on the very off chance that your mental illness allows for it, go to this site http://www.progrockrecords.com/shop/view.php?id=188 and you can read all the reviews from people who love the album.
I get over to Japan on business a few times a year, so I’m dead sure we’ll meet sometime.
Oh, cool, another drive-by by a thin-skinned IMPORTANT PERSON!
STROKE my ever-growing need for attention!!!
Well, let me know you’re coming enough ahead of time, Shawn, and I’ll get a cake & cookies and make sure I have fresh coffee & tea in. Do you take cream and sugar? Or would you prefer green tea with traditional sweets? Matcha? Just let me know. お目にかかれることを楽しみにしております！
It sounds like a nice cuppah is just what you needed, all worked up as you were. You really don’t care what the Germans think but you obviously pay attention to what they say, else you wouldn’t know that they don’t like anything you do, no? (Thanks for making me think about this, though. I’ll snoop around and see what the Japanese are saying about the CD. If anything.
) And I obviously don’t know or care anything about you and your company and your CD and “Progressive Rock” and so my opinion is practically worthless and, besides, the readership of this blog really small and unlikely to have any effect on your sales BUT STILL you take the time to stop and squat.
Anyway I look at it, I’m afraid, that’s a BUG SCORE!!!
Oh well. Let’s see, I count 10 interview and review links on the page you gave the URL for. (I didn’t count the TOR site interview with KJA; been there, done that. And the seaoftranquility.org page is linked to twice; that’s cheating!) Maybe I’ll read them later if I get really bored. And actually develop some interest in all this. And, of course, my “psychosis” allows. (snort) Oops, look at that, time for my meds!
Sorry, I would have passed your comment out of moderation earlier but I’ve been out weeding in the yarden and just came in for a late lunch and decided to check in before heading back out. Today was our city-wide weeding and cleaning day … but I suppose you wouldn’t know about that sort of thing if you just come over for business….
Anyway, again, do let me know when your next trip is. And say hello to Kev and Reb for me!
Whadda Dick. Shawn? Young lady? Do you always make underhanded threats to people who don’t like your music?
Actually, Shawn, if you are so upset that Chig isn’t leading readers to good reviews (which is an absolutely fucking laugh out loud stoopid idea – why would he ever link to good reviews of a product he dislikes) then please explain why you have not linked to this page yourself. I mean, if you are dumb enough to expect perfect fairness, why don’t you take the first step. After all, it is often the hardest.
Hey, Shawn, first of all: fuck you. I just want us to be clear on that. Fuck you.
You’re looking to be nothing more than a typical Internet Tough Guy, making vague threats from behind the security of your keyboard. I’m totally unimpressed, and I’d like to add, for the record, that I’ll meet you anytime and anywhere, tough guy. I love seeing how tough some people are when they have to leave their keyboards behind. But you’d best pack a lunch.
Still with me, sweetheart? Next, I have a question: how in the world did such a thin-skinned, over-sensitive, immature jackass get to be in charge of ANYTHING? Is this how you react to ALL negative items you see? Do you think that this sort of behavior actually helps to IMPROVE your business? What did you actually hope to accomplish with your rant, other than to come across as a complete wing-nut?
Also, for the record, this Roswell Six nonsense sucks. It sucks hard. Actually, to be fair, it appears that the musicians can all play their instruments, but they are completely let down by Kevin J. Anderson’s laughable, absurd lyrics, which are terrible even by the standards of prog. It would be interesting to see what the musicians could do when they AREN’T being saddled with performing on a ridiculous vanity project perpetrated by the world’s most notorious egomaniac.
Finally, Shawn, I’m going to have fun making it my life’s mission to slag your company and everything it does. I think I’ll start with some random drive-by reviews at Amazon, followed by a nice 1-star review at iTunes, where your POS album just appeared. Do you think something like that will help your sales, jackass?
Oh, and in case I wasn’t clear earlier: Fuck you, Shawn.
Then again, I’m not sure my efforts are needed:
“Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,966 in Music”
You don’t seem to be shifting too many copies there, Shawnny-boy. I guess the people have spoken, and here’s what they’re saying: “We really don’t need an absurd vanity project from a douchebag whose only goal is to put ‘musician’ on his list of credits.’ ”
Tough break, Shawn. But I’ll be sure to be first in line for your “Hawkwind: Live in Akron” CD.
I’m more than happy to meet face to face with any of you at any time, I’m easily found and I’m using my real information, how about you do the same? I’m in Rancho Santa Margarita california, mid way between los angeles and san diego, I’ll be at Comicon by the SciFi table and at Dragoncon. Please feel free to stop by and introduce yourself.
The release date on the book and CD was 5 days ago, how many reviews and sales you think we can get in that time? I’m already on my second pressing, so I’m happy with it, I don’t really expect a group of people whose entire reason to exist seems to be to shit on other people to understand it. Zee, I truly pity you that your life is so empty that you only are fulfilled by that kind of action, but really, if that’s what gives you a boner, then go for it.
SandChigger, Hawkwind have a huge back catalogue and I’d be very surprised indeed if itunes didn’t carry a nice selection.
And this is the PRESIDENT of the company, ladies, gents, and chiggers! Just TRY to imagine how fucked up the entire organization must be if the president is a thin-skinned Internet Tough Guy who gets off on insulting people on obscure blogs.
Keep digging that hole, tough guy. You just make yourself a bigger asshat every time you post. This type of free entertainment is hard to come by.
Hey, nice e-balls, Shawn! Just because you don’t really seem to be getting it, let me clue you in a tad here. When you type stuff like this:
not only us but everyone on the internet lets loose a little snicker at your expense. Now I’m sure it makes you feel all big and mighty, but everyone else knows that it takes a special kind of tool to let fly with the e-braggadocio. (Psssst! That means “on-line tough-guy shit.”)
Hey Sweetheart! Why don’t you take a picture of yourself with your web-cam with your shirt off, grinding your teeth, with your clenched fist showing? I could use a funny photo for my own website, and I’m sure that’d do the trick!
Thanks, Inhuien! I’ll have a looksee later this afton.
Um, Shawn? I’m curious about something in your first comment: you said you arrived here via “some google searches” on the album, right? But that’s not what my server logs are showing. In fact, they indicate that someone at your IP address showed up here back on May 16 via my old Blogger blog. Now that’s by no means conclusive that it was you, but the same person using Opera 9.64 on Windows NT 5.1 is really suggestive, no?
Not a big issue, but I don’t see how you expect to create a lasting relationship based on trust when you start out fibbering.
I listened to those sample tracks. It sounds like the kind of music that they used in movies that were knock-offs of Beastmaster. Or like 80′s teen movies when they needed something for an action montage. Like when the kids from Fame: The TV Show got all bent out of shape over been dissed by the kids from the rival dance school, so they went back and really put their noses to the grind-stone. That kind of montage.
You know, the bug is right, Shawn: I feel hurt by your lies and I don’t think I can trust you any longer.
Wow. It took good ole Shawn a whole month to figure out what to say to you? No wonder he’s cranking out music fit for 1982.
Well now, again, there’s no *proof* that the person who visited those three days in May (on the 15th, 16th, & 26th) from the same IP address and using the exact same browser and computer system was actually Shawn. And that person came here via my Blogger blog, to the website portal page and then finally here, not by searching.
Could be someone else entirely.
Actually, there have been only three searches for “roswell+six+terra+incognita+blog” that have ended up here in the last three months; two from an IBM access point on March 5th and then again on the 23rd, and one from a UK provider on May 7th. That’s all I see in the logs at least.
Well, i didn’t know what type of music The Young Lady was doing (and did not give a fuck) until i read Brian Herbert’s comment…
I never thought i say this but…Thank God for Brian Hebert !