Oh man, I remember those days with the newsgroup wars! That was a great lost era of the Internet.

I corresponded with Michael Schmidt a few times over email years back when I was redesigning screamtrumpet.com - which is currently down, btw. Anyway, he's quite a character. I believe he's doing what just about every musician is trying to do - survive. Keep that in mind before you reply to this thread. The statement about him being a felon, regardless of whether or not it's true, is completely irrelevant and in poor taste. Schmidt was an inflamatory Internet personality but I wonder what he did to get under skainishone's skin.

As for the way he's marketing that pursuit, his activity on various forums speaks for itself and I will not defend him. He did send me a cd, I gave it a fair listen and decided it didn't align with what I was trying to do with my site.

Weedy, you've done absolutely nothing even remotely wrong in starting a thread and asking for comment.

Mike Colorado "Big as the Rockies"