When Marc Gunn of the bard's crier wrote a review of this newsletter, it was kind of funny. Did I jump for joy with his recommendation? Nope I only focused on the negative (he didn't like the formatting).

If I was still 18 playing in my Metal band (oh you should see those pictures), I would have shouted FU! and made rude hand gestures. But being older and wiser (OK, maybe just older), I instead wrote Marc a note and THANKED him, and then said PLEASE BE SPECIFIC. He was and provided me GREAT input (the numbers next to the stories are part of that).

Keep in mind to focus on the things you can change (numbers, etc) and try not to freak about the things you can't (bad acoustics in a club, or for me the fact that my newsletter host automatically formats my text verson of my newsletter). If things go poorly remember the words of Alexander Graham Bell, "When one door closes, another opens.But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

As I always say, you're never as bad as your worst review, and never as good as your best.

-Dave Jackson Author of Get Your Band Out of the Basement (and keep them out of the asylum)