It’s no secret that over the nearly 10 years of running this site that I have had some pretty harsh comments thrown at me based on my snarky, harsh, yet honest critiques of some bands.\u00a0 Some of these bands, promoters, etc take to their pages and fuel fires to burn my so called “snowflake ass” so I just thought I’d share with everyone just some of the things being said about the Great Southern Brainfart.\u00a0 Consider this a testimonials page:<\/p>\n
\u201cThat guy has deserved to gargle razorblades for a while now, but shit.\u00a0 May he now gargle them and then be struck by a bus.\u201d\u00a0 –\u00a0 Jeff Taft (Guitar Playin’ Dude)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI hate that dude so much.\u201d \u2013 Tony Parmesan (Facebooker)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve avoided him.\u00a0 I could tell years ago that he was pretty toxic.\u201d Matthew Zane Harper (Bishop Lake)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never forgiven him for putting out one of his little hit pieces on the day my dog died.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had repeated discussions about putting sugar in his gas tank and slashing his tires.\u201d \u2013 Josh Schwartz (A Sound of Thunder)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe deserves several swift kicks to the nuts\u2026\u201d \u2013 Tony Cordisco (Facebooker)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe guy is a two face cunt and will go completely internet green beret on his pathetic little blog but try to be all nice and shit to your face because he\u2019s afraid you\u2019ll kick his all in real life.\u00a0 All the while he sits at home with no job letting his wife pay the bills while he coaches Weight Watchers or some shit.\u00a0 Dude is Chlamydia in human form.\u201d \u2013 Joe Bodan (Halcyon Way)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe bashed us years ago and then he came to another one of our shows with Widow and I had to keep Joey from stomping his ass at the 120 Tavern that night.\u201d \u2013 Doug Neal (Brazen Angel)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe deserved an ass whipping that night.\u201d \u2013 Joey Phillips (Brazen Angel)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe funny thing is that I\u2019m not the one who denied him a press pass (for The Lords of the Trident show).\u201d \u2013 Hoyt Parris (Promoter)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHey Don, not sure why, but the promoter just denied me guest list for you.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what to do with this situation.\u201d \u2013 Jon Asher (The Lords of the Trident PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIf anyone on my friends list supports a troll by the name of Don de Leaumont and his \u2018The Great Southern Brainfart\u2019 webzine, I\u2019d beg you to reconsider your support of him.\u201d \u2013 Patrick Parris (Son of Promoter)<\/strong><\/p>\n “It’s pretty cool that what you do matters enough for someone to have to go out of their way not to let you into a show!” Pat (Brainfart Fan)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n “What a crock of shit. When your press cred has the word \u201cfart\u201d in it you should be banned from everything.<\/span><\/span>” – Matthew Rudzinski (Divebomb Records\/Tribunal Records)<\/strong><\/p>\n “You are soon going to be stuck at home all the time. Just playing solo webcasts with the doors locked. Writing your manifesto in crayon on the backs of cereal boxes.<\/span>” – Anonymous Brainfart Fan<\/strong><\/p>\n “I’ll dress up as Xena Warrior Princess and you need to wear like a king’s crown and a big royal cape and walk behind me while I fend off music nerds with my sword.” – Shelly (Brainfart Fan)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI think you are an amazing writer and here\u2019s why.\u00a0 You come from a place of pure honesty which is tough for some of us musicians to handle and sometimes we can\u2019t handle the truth.\u00a0 You don\u2019t hold back for one sentence.\u00a0 That\u2019s commendable and it\u2019s awesome to read your stuff.\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoy it and I think you should put out a damn book.\u201d \u2013 Johnny Gioeli (Axel Rudi Pell\/Hardline)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, at least Johnny Gioeli seems to like what I do!\u00a0 Do you hate my stuff?\u00a0 Do you like my stuff.\u00a0 Please chime in in the comments section!\u00a0 I’d love to hear your thoughts, good and bad.\u00a0 I welcome it like Journey… with open arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s no secret that over the nearly 10 years of running this site that I have had some pretty harsh comments thrown at me based on my snarky, harsh, yet honest critiques of some bands.\u00a0 Some of these bands, promoters, etc take to their pages and fuel fires to burn my so called “snowflake ass” so I just thought I’d share with everyone just some of the things being said about the Great Southern Brainfart.\u00a0 Consider this a testimonials page: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":17711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[884,479,816,2087,2080,1073,2085,2077,2095,180,2078,2090,2094,2084,2086,2079,2076,979,2088,2089,1844,2081,2082,2083],"class_list":["post-18054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-editorial","tag-a-sound-of-thunder","tag-axel-rudi-pell","tag-brazen-angel","tag-classic-rock","tag-classic-rock-blog","tag-halcyon-way","tag-hard-rock","tag-hard-rock-blog","tag-hardline","tag-heavy-metal","tag-heavy-metal-blog","tag-instrumental-bands","tag-johnny-gioeli","tag-mailchimp","tag-metal","tag-metal-blog","tag-music-blog","tag-pathfinder-promotions","tag-prog-rock","tag-progressive-rock","tag-psych-rock","tag-psych-rock-blog","tag-psychedelic-rock-blog","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t