It's come to my attention that some people are apparently complaining about this exercise. In particular this has been posted on the internet:
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Several fans are questioning Mercury's choice of website for this venture. Republic of Loafdom is a "fantasy" site that features such wonders as Meat dressed up as an Easter Bunny. One of the owners of the site previously made these comments about Mercury:
"What a shame if Mercury's lack of faith and small production run does mean that the single will go no higher ...... in fact I can't see how Mercury could do more harm to the single than they've done so far"
"Unsigned musicians will Mercury promote you if you sign?
Mercury has released Meat Loaf's new single and album, but seem determined to make the single fail. Copies were not available in the stores on the release date, local radio stations seem to be unaware of it and have not received copies. How can it make their playlists when the record company responsible don't even bother? This company seems determined to try to scupper it at the onset.
A salutory warning to anybody considering recording with them I'd say!!
CarylB"
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Whoever has put this on the net has had neither the fairness, nor the courtesy, to put my comments in the context of the time. If we cast our minds back I think this was how many of us felt, and my comments were no more severe than others made, indeed less than some.
I stand by everything I said about Mercury at the time, indeed I sent my comments to Mercury's MD. Perhaps because of my correspondence with the MD and others in the organisation they chose me and my website when they decided to put more effort into the next release. I personally think it's great that they want to make this effort, but of course any who do not feel this do not have to participate.
As to ROL being merely a fantasy site, this may have been closer the truth a while back, but now we DO have hard news, concert information etc. And we have consistently had one of the largest and most comprehensive multimedia suites for Meat Loaf on the web.
If anybody thinks I am an unsuitable choice to spearhead this initiative, that is their perogative and they do not have to take part, however I'd just say that my persistence, and my strenuous promoting of Meat's new album and single might just be what made Mercury approach me, and in my view this is about Meat and his fans .. or am I wrong?
Finally there have apparently also been concerns raised because the forms are going to ROL. At the moment we do not have a working email link to Mercury, and I have today sent the first 120 responses to Clive Cawley, their Product Manager. We hope to get the email link working on Monday, although the forms will continue to be copied to ROL. If anybody doubts my integrity I will forward their name to Mike and ask him to confirm receipt of their form.