Another Great Promotion!, Closer is Itunes single of the week Options

[tiger]

That statement just shows what an egocentric idiot Kevin Martin truly is. The guys from Live may have started playing together in 1985, but no one heard of the band until the early 90s. Kevin mispoke in the interview but he refused to admit his mistake.

I am pretty sure we would all exist without Live and Candlebox. We would just be following other things. Without the fans, Kevin Martin would exist, but no one would give a shit.

The fact that Kevin chastised the entire message board community shows how clueless he really is. He has criticized Ed and Daughtry(among others) in his interviews, but simply
can't deal with criticism himself. If Kevin called me out for specific comments, that would have been cool(and probably deserved). However he put down all of his supporters as well. He's just a fool.

The Gracious Few indeed.

You'll just never get it. I'd hate to live in your sanitized version of the world. Give me the passion and everything that comes along with it. That's what living life is all about. Things are never as rosy and squeaky clean beneath the surface, no matter how much spin is put on it. I'd rather have the unfiltered emotions than the watered down marketing drivel you take as truth. I take no offense to this at all. We all know this was directed at you.

[sh4rpz]

I did send a message to the team tgf explaining that this sarcasm thread to make fun of a negative thread started by Nick saying their promotion is a failure.

I do think Kevin mis-understood as others have said pointed out.

Changing the title takes some steam off of the humor of course, but......it is what it is. We can still poke fun, TGF is doing way more marketing and exposure of getting their name out there than said one person has declared.. Might have to start calling Nick Lord Voldemort or 'the one who cannot be named'

100% KM mis-understood.

Also, sent a PM to Fish as he seemed a bit miffed as well!

[+Ed+]

I do not wanna lose Fish from this board

[LivesMeltdown]

I can see how people might be taken back what Kevin said, but I don't think he meant it as it came out (of course I don't know for sure). The way I took it was that if it wasn't Ed, Chad, Chad, Pat, Kevin, Sean, etc. the fans wouldn't have had all this great music in the past to bring everyone together. I know many people don't like Ed's music, or any music he has done over the past 10 years, but I think everyone here will admit that he contributed to 4 great albums in a 10 year span. I know Nick doesn't like TGF, but I'm sure he will admit that Chad, Chad, and Pat helped contribute to a lot of great music of the past 2 decades. I think people really take that for granted and forget about it. All these guys have brought great enjoyment to your lives over the years and regardless what you may think of them now, they all deserve at least some respect (IMO a lot of respect).

[tiger]

I do not wanna lose Fish from this board

I wouldn't leave on account of Kevin's post. I don't think TGF fans should take any offense to what he said. I might have even more respect. These guys are passionate, real passionate. It courses through everything that is TGF. It's real, raw, emotional, passionate, unfiltered, and not for the meek. Just like their music. What else would you expect? If you can't handle that then I can think of another (supposedly) softer, safer, cleaner musician out there that you can follow.

[VoodooLady]

You can call Kevin whatever name you want, but he cares far more about his fans than a lot of musicians. How often do you see a band member reading and responding on a message board? I would take that approach any day over an artist who doesn't even pay attention to their fans on the internet.

my only question is- is it really Kevin?

[+Ed+]

yup

on the other note..

ATTENTION: TGF will be signing merch and anything else after EVERY show at the merch stand!! Come on out and ROCK with us! CG

[OutToDry]

Do come spend more time at thegraciousfans.com. It's there for you and sitting idle.

[thefunkyredcaboose]

my only question is- is it really Kevin?

Yeah, it is.

[thefunkyredcaboose]

I can see how people might be taken back what Kevin said, but I don't think he meant it as it came out (of course I don't know for sure). The way I took it was that if it wasn't Ed, Chad, Chad, Pat, Kevin, Sean, etc. the fans wouldn't have had all this great music in the past to bring everyone together. I know many people don't like Ed's music, or any music he has done over the past 10 years, but I think everyone here will admit that he contributed to 4 great albums in a 10 year span. I know Nick doesn't like TGF, but I'm sure he will admit that Chad, Chad, and Pat helped contribute to a lot of great music of the past 2 decades. I think people really take that for granted and forget about it. All these guys have brought great enjoyment to your lives over the years and regardless what you may think of them now, they all deserve at least some respect (IMO a lot of respect).

Agree with this 110 percent.

[sh4rpz]

I do not wanna lose Fish from this board

Ditto.

[SJN1279]

So let me get this straight, Kevin Martin tells the members of this board to go F themselves, and most of you proceed to kiss his ass.

That is deserving of a WOW.

[thefunkyredcaboose]

So let me get this straight, Kevin Martin tells the members of this board to go F themselves, and most of you proceed to kiss his ass.

That is deserving of a WOW.

Way to not actually respond to any of the posts directed at you. Bravo.

The irony is palpable here considering your complete non-criticism of Ed. Even if Kevin WAS telling us all to go F ourselves (he wasn't) at least he would be doing it with honesty.

There are two sides to every story, right Nick? That's what you have told us repeatedly.

This post has been edited by thefunkyredcaboose: Sep 22 2010, 12:41 pm

[OutToDry]

He didn't get the nature of the thread, of course it was made in jest to counter one of your smear campaigns....not sure why you try, you only get a handful of jones juicers to wink at you.

[Rupe]

So let me get this straight, Kevin Martin tells the members of this board to go F themselves, and most of you proceed to kiss his ass.

That is deserving of a WOW.

Ummm... No.

I think we've figured out that KM misunderstood the "Another Failed Promotion" title of the thread. If you indeed read the entire thread, you will notice that there is very little judgment or criticism of TGF, and a hell of a lot of support.

I don't see anyone kissing ass, just trying to clear up a possible mis-understanding.

I don't know why I'm bothering to explain. I really don't care if you like TGF or EK, just please stop being such an ass.