What do I tell this guy

Hi Chris,

I recently downloaded some of your music that you submitted to

classicalarchives.com and was wondering if it would be okay to include your

audio recordings on some new historical audio CDs to be displayed on

A2ZCDS.com?

Of course all proper credit will be given if your permission is granted, and

your excellent recordings will help to further the knowledge of our fellow

society :-)

Please let me know when you get a chance.

Warm Regards,

Scott Reid

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This is an e-mail I recently received.

Historical audio? Excellent recordings? I thought your stuff on classicalarchives was just MIDI???

No matter. Demand royalties. ;-P

Umm, it IS all MIDI. His e-mail perplexed me a little. I will most likely write him and ask for more information.

Hahahah

this guy has been sending emails to everyone on the internet... I got a couple from him too...

If he ever e-mails me, I think I'm going to see how long I can keep stringing him along.

I want an e-mail!!!

He won't reply to you if you send him anything... he's using a bot:

Greetings,

We found that a certain "Scott Reid" of A2ZCDS.com has contacted all our

contributors to ask their permission to use their files in a CD on his site.

Although we have a limit of 5 email requests/month from the

http://prs.net/c.html page to protect you from such spamming, this guy used

an automated robot to send fake email addresses via a server in Pakistan to

circumvent the limit of 5 email requests/month and seems to try to copy the

CMA for his own profit/purposes.

We are seeking legal action against the perpetrator who ignored the warnings

and terms and conditions of use of our site.

Whether you agree to give this person permission or not is obviously your

decision. I am however not pleased that someone used such dishonest tactics

to contact you and I suggest you ignore emails coming from this person.

Further, we will soon place even more restrictions on the ability to get

your email address from our site.

Best,

Pierre R. Schwob

CEO - Classical Archives, LLC

http://www.ClassicalArchives.com

The Largest Classical Music Site On The Net!

200 Sheridan Ave Ste 403

Palo Alto, CA 94306

1-650-330-8050 (11AM-6PM PST)

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Yeah, I got that e-mail just a little while ago as well. I knew it was fishy because the work I have at classicalarchives.com is all old stuff that's...uhh.... mega-crap, as opposed to some of my newer stuff which isn't mega-crap, just regular crap.

You don't write crap, Chris.

Indeed not.

Well Lee, I see it this way. If I convince myself that I write crap, then when people agree with me it doesn't hurt. Tell me something new, right? However, if someone praises my music, it just makes me feel that much better. It's always good to be humble anyway. Thanks though. You too, Stefan. You both are far greater composers than I.

Give it time, Chris. As Mozart said to the young Beethoven, "young man, you will one day make a great noise in the world!"

You know the new Lockwood Beethoven biography? He descredits the any Beethoven-Mozart meeting. Says there's no evidence for it, and that it is unlikely that statement was ever made. Although Beethoven did make a lot of noise.

Interesting. That wouldn't surprise me that it didn't actually happen. But consider that Beethoven probably wasn't the type to "write home" about it, and Mozart would have considered it too insignificant to mention. There is no evidence that it didn't happen, either. I have to ask myself where the story originally came from - frankly, I don't know. Maybe it's one of Constanze's several fabrications or embellishments...people wax hyperbolic when remembering great people from a distance, and with an eye to their own fortune. We do know that Beethoven made a trip to Vienna in 1787, which was during Mozart's lifetime...it seems to me that for Beethoven to come all that way, attract all the attention he did, and not to have sought Mozart out seems somewhat improbable.

I don't have the book with me right now but I'll post exactly why when I get there.

It could have been an urban legend thing....the two greats of Vienna meeting up, Mozart prophecizing...