A lot of popular stuff today is more visual, which I don't care for because for me, it's all about the sound, but there are lots of real reasons music has changed to that form, lots of pros know about the A&R world, the finance world, the recording world, the production world, and conditions have changed so artists have had to adapt. While I'm not a fan of some types of music or art, I try and not knock stuff I don't understand because my ears and eyes are 62 years old and I've formed biases and know I have. When people knock someone else they might be setting themselves up for harsher judgment. Supportive people tend to be more helpful people too.
A person might not do lightning leads but still be a great guitarist, because there are many ways to play and many things to play. Yeah, I know that giving awards for mediocre performance can be a problem that causes under achievement, but honestly, it's not as big a problem as some make it out to be.
When my friends and family try to play music I encourage them and always applaud them. I don't put down others like I used to, maybe it's partly a sign of maturity, I don't know. I'm 62 now and well seasoned and humbled. If you couldn't keep up at work, I'd get mad at you. When I was in my 20's I negged out people myself some. It's interesting how some guys love to neg out other people.
We have opened a discussion thread in the Pub section discussing this. We will include a very detailed password checklist. We want to highly recommend that members turn on and use TGP's two-factor authentication option. We highly recommend every member reading this change their passwords as a precaution. We have forced email revalidation for all members that have not signed on for a while. None of the accounts compromised were using two-factor authentication. Talking to one member as I am working through getting his account back in order, he informed me that his Apple password manager had been compromised and made available on the dark web. In today's world, that is false confidence you can no longer afford.Įvery account that I've restored so far to the original owner was using compromised passwords. It is heartbreaking to see that the lure of saving some money will still fool people into using those methods to save a few dollars. Unfortunately, we cannot control how members do deals. However, the best way to prevent this is for members to exercise proper password hygiene (which I'll detail below), turn on two-factor authentication, and - I implore every single person here - only use payment methods that have buyer protection. We've made security changes that I don't want to detail here to stop them. They have scammed members in the Emporiums by creating ads with stolen photos and requesting Paypal F&F or Venmo exclusively for payment. Some fraudsters have compromised TGP accounts have in the past few days.