Gagliarchives

[gr8sho92]

Interesting results so far. Maybe a little unfair.

My $0.02. Tom Gagliardi is clearly an icon in the prog world. It's fun to listen to the show live. The commercials just suck the life out of it though after listening to commercial free AM. The rebroadcast is probably unnecessary. If you really have your heart set on listening to it but have better things to do on a Saturday night, then just TIVO it (or whatever the internet streaming equivalent is called).

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by gr8sho92

Interesting results so far. Maybe a little unfair.

My $0.02. Tom Gagliardi is clearly an icon in the prog world.

Precisely!

Originally Posted by gr8sho92

It's fun to listen to the show live. The commercials just suck the life out of it though after listening to commercial free AM. The rebroadcast is probably unnecessary. If you really have your heart set on listening to it but have better things to do on a Saturday night, then just TIVO it (or whatever the internet streaming equivalent is called).

It's called recording. I know! Both Roger Lee and I sit up Saturday evenings baby-sitting the retransmission and recording of Tom's four hour time slot so that AM can bring this informative show to you with our Tuesday replay. I could be going other -- less altruistic -- things like sleeping but I feel it's important to get this informative show on the air to as many who will listen as possible.

The commercials (public service announcements), and I've tried to explain this before, are required by FCC. I'll take a public service announcement any day over the loud in-your-face advertising of most commercial radio. I know our listeners in the "not-so-free world" can't understand this because they've been force to pay tax on their airwaves to listen to programming. Here in the land of the de-fray and the home of deprave, we have a different model. I'd wager that BCC/WBZC would gladly accept money to buy license and keep the public service announcements out of the broadcast. However, you people grouse about $50/year for 128K stream access, so I'm not going to bother suggesting you remunerate for public service free Gagliarchives.

Some don't like the talking/interviews. If that was the case, it would just be like the other shows here. I like hearing from some of the musicians Tom has interviewed. There are, of course, some I don't but that's life -- you get the good with the bad without much choice. Tom also gets guests in the studio and often they will performing live. I've been there for some of these live bits too. It's too bad too that the Gagliarchives return to AM was one week after the Radio Massacre International (RMI) performance in Tom's studio. AM listeners that enjoy electronica a la Tangerine Dream would have truly enjoyed this broadcast. I enjoyed it live in the studio!

Lest you forget as well, Tom mentions AM on his show. It's done much, IMHO, for the stature for AM in the prog community.

Tom's show is reminiscent of the heyday of Art/Progressive rock radio too. He does proud the likes of Ed Sciaky, Helen Leight, Michael Tearson and others on the then -- not now -- WMMR, WYSP, WIOQ and other radio stations from the Philly airspace as well as WSAN in Allentown, PA where the likes of Larry Fast himself used to DJ!

PS. I've been reading the poll results and I am appalled at the negativity toward this show. Even more unsettling to me are the names of those who have negatively tainted the poll!

[Rick and Roll]

I had posted a comment in my poll asking people not to comment on the polls. I removed it thinking it was not necessary but I'm having second thoughts.

Personally, I would like to have these polls just as polls. The comments for or against taint the poll.

I made a suggestion to Jim to move these to a sticky so that they stay at the top of the page. Perhaps we can unsticky the Altruism thread which has been dormant for awhile.

I'm not sure showing the results as they occur is the best thing, but it matters not to me either way. I'm not a marketing savvy person. What I DO know is that voting should be anonymous, and I was under the impression that only Jim was to know the names of the voters. I don't see any taint on the poll.

PS - This is just in response - my preferred view is to just have the poll and let Management sift through the results.

Originally Posted by VAXman

Even more unsettling to me are the names of those who have negatively tainted the poll!

VAX....I know you are the watcher of the moon, watcher of all, but Jim stated in his opening post that these results would be ANONYMOUS. I'm sorry but this doesn't look anonymous to me.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by KeithieW

VAX....I know you are the watcher of the moon, watcher of all, but Jim stated in his opening post that these results would be ANONYMOUS. I'm sorry but this doesn't look anonymous to me.

They are ANONYMOUS and I'm keeping them that way.

vBulletin, which is providing the polling function, must track who has voted to maintain one vote per user poll. That non-admins cannot see the results by voter is the only anonymity it promises.


anonymous |əˈnänəməs|
adjective
(of a person) not identified by name; of unknown name : the anonymous author of Beowulf | the donor's wish to remain anonymous | an anonymous phone call.
• having no outstanding, individual, or unusual features; unremarkable or impersonal : the anonymous black car waiting to take him to the airport | a faceless, anonymous group.
• [ postpositive ] used in names of support groups for addicts of a substance or behavior to indicate the confidentiality maintained among members of the group : Alcoholics Anonymous | Debtors Anonymous.

[PFD]

[quote=VAXman;31304Even more unsettling to me are the names of those who have negatively tainted the poll![/QUOTE]

What? It's not a private poll?

[mossy]

Jim said these polls would be anonymous. I assumed that meant anonymity to everyone, including Moon admin. If that were not the case, we should have been told upfront.

Second, if Moon admin ARE privy to the results, making comments like "Even more unsettling to me are the names of those who have negatively tainted the poll" makes a joke of the entire polling process.

Sorry vax.

[MrMagoo]

Originally Posted by mossy

Jim said these polls would be anonymous. I assumed that meant anonymity to everyone, including Moon admin. If that were not the case, we should have been told upfront.

Second, if Moon admin ARE privy to the results, making comments like "Even more unsettling to me are the names of those who have negatively tainted the poll" makes a joke of the entire polling process.

Sorry vax.

I concur.

[RogorMortis]

PS. I've been reading the poll results and I am appalled at the negativity toward this show. Even more unsettling to me are the names of those who have negatively tainted the poll!
Today 05:27 AM

That's a fair comment as such from you Vax BUT it also tells me that democracy in the voting which guarantees anonymity has been broken. Would you like being told that the system knows what you voted in the secret box ? No, neither do I and I support the comments from Keithie and Mossy.

Originally Posted by gr8sho92

My $0.02. Tom Gagliardi is clearly an icon in the prog world.

Indeed he is and I feel that Aural Moon should be honoured to run his show.

Originally Posted by gr8sho92

The rebroadcast is probably unnecessary.

Unless you live on the other side of the swamp or the other side of the world that is.

[mossy]

There should be no comments in these threads. Also, there should be no mention at all of who has voted in these polls.